Who We Are

At Justworks youll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment great benefits wellness program offerings company retreats and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

Were helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. Were data-driven and never stop iterating. If youd like to work in a supportive entrepreneurial environment are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it wed love to hear from you.

Were united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values which are reflected in our product and in our team.

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If this sounds like you youll fit right in.

Who You Are

As a Senior Payroll Operations Specialist UK & Ireland on the International team you will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy timeliness and compliance of payroll for employees across both countries. You will work across the organization to research troubleshoot and resolve a variety of payroll-related inquiries ensuring that all payroll mattersranging from calculations to tax submissions and statutory filingsare handled with precision.

In this role you will play a key part in maintaining seamless payroll operations by proactively identifying discrepancies reconciling payroll data and ensuring compliance with UK and Irish legislation. You are highly detail-oriented with a strong ability to analyze payroll data resolve issues efficiently and uphold the highest standards of accuracy.

You excel at working independently and thrive in environments where you can build processes from the ground up. With a strong ability to design and implement payroll workflows you will ensure efficiency and accuracy in payroll execution. Your expertise will be critical in ensuring payroll runs smoothly resolving any complications as they arise and continuously optimizing operational processes to maintain excellence in UK and Irish payroll execution.

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What You Will Work On

What You Will Work On

• Execute day-to-day operations for Justworks UK and Ireland payroll systems including processing and reviewing payroll handling corrections and ensuring compliance with HMRC and Revenue regulations.
• Monitor payroll payments triage and resolve incoming payroll-related issues efficiently.
• Perform payroll reconciliation ensuring accuracy in statutory deductions tax payments and reporting while identifying and resolving discrepancies.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of UK and Irish payroll tax laws staying up to date on legislative changes and applying this knowledge to support complex payroll decisions.
• Implement and refine payroll workflows to support evolving UK and Ireland operations ensuring efficiency and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Identify and address areas of inefficiency in payroll execution leveraging process improvements and system enhancements to optimize operations.
• Act as a payroll subject matter expert providing guidance and support to internal teams such as Customer Success and Finance.
• Maintain internal payroll operations resources policies and procedures ensuring accuracy and relevance in the UK and Ireland context.
• Manage statutory tasks including processing tax codes National Insurance and PRSI contributions P45/P60 forms and BIK (Benefits in Kind).
• Support year-end reconciliation and reporting processes ensuring timely and accurate submission of documents such as P11D (UK) and year-end statements (Ireland).
• Partner with the Audit and Accounting teams to continuously improve payroll controls and compliance measures.

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Senior Payroll Operations Specialist UK & Ireland how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an this role your foundational knowledge skills abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:

• Detail-oriented exercises extreme attention to detail; is thorough accurate organized and productive and seeks to understand both the cause and effect of a situation.
• Adaptability the ability to adjust your approach or actions in response to changes in your external environment.
• Good judgment the exercise of critical thinking analyzing and assessing problems and implications identifying patterns making connections of underlying issues understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies and taking ownership of the outcome.
• Clear communication the ability to articulate thoughts and express ideas effectively using oral written visual and non-verbal communication skills as well as listening skills to gain understanding.
• Systems thinking the ability to look at overall systems holistically and understand how things work within the system through the exploration of inter-dependencies and inter-relationships (context and connections).

In addition all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. Youre an active listener treat people respectfully and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. Youre willing to share information understand other perspectives and consider new possibilities. Youre curious ask open questions and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. Youre committed earnest and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put do what you say and say what youll do. Youre honest and forthright have a strong moral compass and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in payroll operations or related fields including at least 2 years of hands-on experience managing the full end-to-end payroll process for employees across the UK and/or Ireland. This includes payroll calculations execution tax reconciliation and reporting ensuring accuracy and compliance at every stage.
• Recognized payroll qualification such as CIPP (UK) or IPASS (Ireland) is a strong plus.
• Demonstrable working knowledge of UK PAYE National Insurance P11D/BIK and statutory payments as well as Irish PRSI USC and income tax requirements.
• Familiarity with basic business process management activities (process mapping improvement implementation etc.)
• Aptitude for quickly learning new products and subject matter.
• Meticulous and detail-oriented; you pride yourself in finding mistakes or errors and putting measures in place to prevent these.
• Ability to remain flexible and pragmatic under pressure with an ability to thrive in a changing and complex environment.

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Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate including and not limited to skill set level of relevant experience and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

For more information about Justworks Total Reward Philosophy including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.

Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity culture and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work our people and our product drives creativity and innovation entrepreneurial leadership and integrity competitiveness and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger our workplace more dynamic and our product accessible to all of our customers.

Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race color ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital or familial status disability pregnancy gender identity or expression veteran status genetic information or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal state and local laws. If youre in need of a reasonable accommodation please reach out to us at . Your comfort and success matter to us and were here to ensure an inclusive experience.

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