Our client is a fast‑growing international organisation operating across multiple jurisdictions, with a strong reputation for combining scale, innovation and people‑focused operations. The business continues to expand through both organic growth and acquisition, creating an increasingly complex payroll and benefits landscape.
As part of this evolution, the organisation is seeking a Payroll & Benefits Specialist (Global) to act as the UK subject‑matter expert while contributing to international oversight. This role sits within the global payroll function and plays a critical part in ensuring robust governance, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement across payroll, benefits and pensions.
The position offers a blend of operational ownership and strategic influence, with exposure to senior stakeholders, systems transformation and M&A activity. It is well‑suited to an experienced payroll professional looking to operate at a global level while retaining deep UK technical responsibility.
About the role:
* Lead the end‑to‑end delivery of complex UK payroll operations across multiple entities, ensuring accuracy, compliance and strong controls.
* Act as the principal UK payroll and benefits authority, advising senior stakeholders on legislative change, risk and best practice.
* Own UK benefits administration and optimisation, including pensions governance, provider management and employee communications.
* Support global payroll oversight, including international mobility, employment tax considerations and cross‑border benefits.
* Partner with HR, Finance and systems teams to drive process improvement, system integration and data integrity across payroll platforms.
* Support payroll‑related aspects of M&A activity, including due diligence, risk assessment and post‑acquisition integration.
About you:
* Extensive experience in a senior UK payroll role, with ownership of complex, multi‑entity payroll environments.
* Strong technical knowledge of UK payroll legislation, statutory payments, HMRC processes and pensions governance.
* Proven exposure to global mobility payroll, employment tax and cross‑border working arrangements.
* Experience working with modern HR and payroll systems, ideally within an integrated or outsourced model.
* Comfortable operating in a fast‑paced, international environment with senior stakeholder interaction.
* Highly organised, detail‑oriented and confident owning issues end‑to‑end while driving continuous improvement.
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