Team Lead- UK Payroll

Role : Team Lead - UK Payroll

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 5 Years to 7 Years

Role

As a UK Payroll Team Lead / SME, you will support the Payroll Tower Lead in the day-to-day delivery of UK payroll services. You will provide subject-matter expertise across end-to-end payroll processing, support the team with complex cases and exceptions, monitor quality and controls, and help ensure payroll activities are delivered accurately, on time and in accordance with UK statutory requirements. You will act as an escalation point for payroll associates and work closely with relevant stakeholders to resolve issues, strengthen controls and continuously improve payroll delivery.

Your responsibilities:

Support end-to-end UK payroll processing and ensure activities are completed accurately and within agreed timelines.

Provide subject-matter expertise across PAYE, National Insurance, statutory payments, tax codes, holiday pay, salary sacrifice and other UK payroll requirements.

Support HMRC Real Time Information activities, including FPS and EPS submissions, corrections and payroll reconciliations.

Support workplace pension and automatic-enrolment activities, including assessment, enrolment, opt-outs, refunds and contribution reconciliation.

Review complex payroll transactions, exceptions and adjustments and provide guidance to payroll associates.

Perform and review payroll controls, payroll-to-general-ledger reconciliations, variance analysis and exception reports.

Support payroll activities relating to starters, leavers, employee changes, bonuses, statutory leave, deductions, benefits, loans, court orders and overpayments.

Support tax-year start and year-end activities, including P60, P11D, P11D(b), payrolled benefits and associated reconciliations.

Coordinate day-to-day team activities, workload allocation, quality checks and adherence to payroll calendars and cut-offs.

Coach payroll associates and support knowledge transfer, process documentation and cross-training.

Act as an escalation point for complex payroll queries and support timely resolution of incidents and issues.

Support audits, control reviews, root-cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions.

Support system changes, testing, automation and continuous-improvement initiatives.

Provide operational updates, risks and issues to the Payroll Tower Lead.

Your Profile

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

Five to seven years of relevant UK payroll experience.

Strong working knowledge of PAYE, RTI, National Insurance, statutory payments, tax codes and UK payroll legislation.

Good understanding of workplace pensions and automatic enrolment.

Strong end-to-end payroll processing, reconciliation and exception-management experience.

Experience reviewing complex payroll cases and providing technical guidance to team members.

Ability to coordinate work, monitor quality and coach payroll associates.

Experience using Workday Payroll or a comparable enterprise payroll system.

Strong Microsoft Excel, analytical, communication and problem-solving skills.

Experience in a shared-service, managed-service or outsourced payroll environment.

Willingness to work UK business hours [09.00 am to 6.00 pm UK time].

Desirable skills, knowledge a nd experience:

CIPP qualification or equivalent recognised UK payroll certification.

Experience supporting multi-entity or high-volume UK payrolls.

Experience supporting payroll transformation, automation, system changes or user acceptance testing.