Xero is hiring a
UK Payroll Compliance Lead

Summary

The job is for a UK Payroll Compliance Specialist at Xero, either based in Australia or the UK. The role involves ensuring compliance of Xero's UK payroll product with relevant rules and regulations, collaborating with teams to improve user experience, and acting as the subject matter expert on all things payroll.

Requirements

• Over 10 years of subject matter expertise to Xero’s payroll product and technology team
• A working understanding of day to day payroll operations, procedures, and documents
• Comprehensive expertise in employment and payroll related rules and regulations, including UK income tax, national insurance legislation and workplace pension rules more broadly
• The ability to interpret and apply relevant rules and regulations. Understanding of associated subject matter such as pensions and HR
• Strong communication, presentational, organisational and analytical skills
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills
• Proven experience personally processing payroll for a UK small business either in-house, as an accountant/bookkeeper, or a payroll specialist on behalf of clients
• Proven experience using multiple UK payroll software products
• Working knowledge of Real Time Information (RTI), faster payments/BACS, auto-enrolment, Payroll Journals, various Pension providers and other related processes such as salary sacrifice and benefits & expenses etc

Responsibilities

• Ensure Xero’s UK Payroll product is compliant with relevant rules and regulations
• Collaborate with product people, designers, engineers and others to continually improve the user experience of our customers as part of agile iterations
• Act as the team’s subject matter expert on all things payroll
• Championing payroll compliance with internal stakeholders across the business
• Guide the team by your in-depth knowledge
• At times guide our Customer Experience teams on how to solve complex payroll cases
• Act as the primary monitor of upcoming changes to the UK employment landscape
• Immerse yourself in our product development process, research topics online and communicate directly with government and industry bodies such as HMRC

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing a payroll team
• CIPP qualification (or similar), exposure to multiple industries
• Previous experience of Xero
• Previous experience of working as part of a technology team and using tools such as Jira, Confluence and Miro

Benefits

• Generous paid leave
• Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family
• Health insurance
• Life insurance, and income protection
• Wellbeing and sports programmes
• Employee resource groups
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers
• An Employee Share Plan
• Beautiful offices
• Flexible working
• Career development