UK Payroll Senior Analyst – SME

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 5–7 Years
Band: BPO 3/4
Shift: UK Business Hours

Job Overview

We are seeking a skilled Senior UK Payroll Specialist with strong expertise in payroll delivery, compliance, and quality assurance. The candidate will be responsible for managing complex payroll activities, validating payroll outputs, resolving escalations, and supporting operational teams to ensure accurate and compliant payroll processing.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute and oversee end-to-end UK payroll processing.

• Validate payroll inputs, calculations, deductions, adjustments, and final payroll outputs.

• Ensure compliance with UK payroll legislation, PAYE, National Insurance, and RTI requirements.

• Prepare and review HMRC submissions, including FPS and EPS.

• Manage statutory payments, tax codes, pension contributions, and automatic enrolment.

• Perform payroll reconciliations, variance analysis, and general ledger validations.

• Investigate payroll discrepancies and resolve complex employee payroll queries.

• Conduct payroll quality checks, audits, and internal control reviews.

• Support payroll associates with technical queries and escalated cases.

• Assist with year-end payroll processes, including P60, P11D, and P11D(b).

• Identify process gaps and recommend improvements to payroll delivery.

• Support payroll system enhancements, testing, and automation initiatives.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5–7 years of UK payroll processing experience.

• Strong understanding of UK payroll legislation and statutory compliance.

• Hands-on experience in gross-to-net payroll calculations.

• Knowledge of PAYE, National Insurance, RTI, HMRC submissions, and statutory payments.

• Experience with payroll reconciliations, audits, and quality control.

• Knowledge of workplace pensions and automatic enrolment.

• Experience with Workday Payroll, ADP, or similar payroll platforms.

• Strong Excel, reporting, and analytical capabilities.

• Ability to handle payroll escalations and complex employee cases.

• Experience working in BPO, shared services, or managed services environments.

• Flexibility to work UK business hours.

Preferred Qualifications

• CIPP certification or equivalent UK payroll qualification.

• Experience handling high-volume and multi-entity payroll.

• Exposure to payroll transformation, automation, UAT, and implementation projects.

Important Notes:

• Ex-TCS employees are not eligible.

• PAN and Date of Birth (DOB) are mandatory for profile creation.