UK Payroll Team Lead – Payroll Operations

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 5–7 Years
Band: BPO 3/4
Work Mode: As per business requirement
Shift: UK Business Hours

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced UK Payroll Team Lead to manage and support end-to-end UK payroll operations. The candidate should have strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, statutory compliance, payroll reconciliations, and team coordination. The role involves ensuring accurate payroll delivery, maintaining compliance, resolving complex payroll issues, and guiding payroll associates.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end UK payroll processing and ensure timely salary disbursement.

• Ensure compliance with PAYE, National Insurance, RTI, and statutory payroll regulations.

• Handle HMRC submissions, including Full Payment Submission (FPS) and Employer Payment Summary (EPS).

• Manage statutory payments, tax codes, workplace pensions, and automatic enrolment.

• Review payroll exceptions, adjustments, discrepancies, and escalated cases.

• Perform payroll reconciliations, audits, variance analysis, and general ledger checks.

• Allocate daily workloads and monitor team productivity and quality.

• Coach, mentor, and provide technical guidance to payroll associates.

• Support year-end payroll activities, including P60, P11D, and P11D(b).

• Identify opportunities for process improvements and payroll automation.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5–7 years of hands-on UK payroll experience.

• Strong knowledge of PAYE, National Insurance, RTI, HMRC regulations, and statutory payments.

• Experience in end-to-end UK payroll processing.

• Knowledge of pension administration and automatic enrolment.

• Experience in payroll reconciliations, audits, and exception management.

• Prior experience in team coordination, quality monitoring, and mentoring.

• Exposure to Workday Payroll or similar payroll systems.

• Strong MS Excel, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience in BPO, shared services, or managed payroll operations.

• Willingness to work UK business hours.

Preferred Qualifications

• CIPP certification or equivalent UK payroll qualification.

• Experience managing high-volume or multi-entity payroll.

• Exposure to payroll automation, transformation, UAT, or system implementation.

Important Notes:

• Ex-TCS employees are not eligible.

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