EOR Senior Payroll Specialist – UK & Ireland

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

We’re looking for a Senior Payroll Specialist to join Rippling’s Global Payroll Operations team and help lead payroll delivery for our EOR customers across the UK and Ireland.

• →Own complex EOR payroll processing for the UK and Ireland, including inputs, approvals, corrections, off-cycle payments, statutory payroll outputs, post-payroll review, and issue resolution.
• →Act as a senior payroll and payroll tax subject-matter expert for escalations, including overpayments, final pay, redundancy pay, tax code/RPN issues, statutory documents, DEA/Attachment of Earnings deductions, Apprenticeship Levy, pension deductions, and HMRC/Revenue disputes.
• →Create, review, and validate pay types, payroll inputs, and payroll configurations, ensuring earnings, deductions, reimbursements, benefits, allowances, statutory payments, and leave-related pay receive the correct payroll and tax treatment in each jurisdiction.
• →Advise customers and internal teams on UK and Irish payroll requirements, including PAYE, National Insurance, PRSI, USC, auto-enrolment, pensions, taxable benefits, reimbursements, court/attachment deductions, student loans, and leave-related tax treatment.
• →Review, reconcile, and validate payroll outputs, including payslips, filings, deductions, pension contributions, correction calculations, and off-cycle calculations across both markets.
• →Strengthen payroll controls, audit checks, quality-review processes, SOPs, escalation playbooks, customer guidance, internal knowledge resources, and product/process feedback loops to reduce repeat issues, improve consistency, mentor payroll specialists, and support scalable payroll operations.

• →Expert-level understanding of UK and Irish payroll and tax compliance, including PAYE, National Insurance, PRSI, USC, PAYE Modernisation/RPNs, HMRC/Revenue filings and payments, statutory documents, Employment Detail Summaries, pensions, auto-enrolment, terminations, and year-end requirements.
• →5+ years of experience in UK and/or Irish payroll, payroll operations, payroll tax, or equivalent roles, ideally in a client-facing, EOR, or multi-customer environment.
• →Significant experience managing end-to-end payroll processing and complex escalations, including audits, notices, disputes, HMRC/Revenue queries, and customer-facing payroll issue resolution.
• →Strong working knowledge of payroll tax treatment across pay types, payroll inputs, earnings, deductions, benefits, reimbursements, allowances, statutory payments, leave-related pay, pensions, and other payroll components, with strong judgment on when PAYE, NI, PRSI, USC, pension, statutory, and reporting treatment applies.
• →Experience with EOR or multi-country payroll operations, including how payroll connects to contract terms, worker classification, and the client-employer-EOR relationship.
• →Excellent communication, analytical, prioritization, documentation, mentoring, and quality-review skills, with the ability to manage complex case queues and explain payroll issues clearly.
• →Continuous-improvement mindset, strong attention to detail, and comfort working across operational systems, documentation tools, and case-management platforms; familiarity with Salesforce, JIRA, and Confluence is a plus.