Global Payroll Lead - SME UK Payroll Operations London, United Kingdom

Rippling; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job description

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.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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Global Payroll Lead, Subject Matter Expert

What will you do?

• Become a product expert on our Global Payroll (and other HR) capabilities for UK customers.
• Create content and documentation to cover the existing product behaviour, update for changes, and build FAQs to support internal enablement.
• Analyse support interactions to build a POV on the quality of the support interactions.
• Interface with the country Product Manager to share support volume trends, drivers of bad customer interactions, and compliance issues.
• Act as a resource to Customer Support Specialists on regionally nuanced interactions for your country of expertise.
• Step into escalated customer interactions to resolve issues by leveraging platform and industry expertise.

Required qualifications (UK)

• 5+ years of hands-on UK payroll experience, preferably in a payroll provider, HR software company, or in-house payroll function (e.g., HMRC RTI, PAYE, ADP, Sage, Workday).
• Deep knowledge of UK payroll regulations, including tax, National Insurance, pension auto-enrolment, and statutory payments (SSP, SMP, SPP, etc.).
• Strong understanding of payroll processing, wage types, statutory deductions, and compliance reporting.
• Experience with payroll compliance audits and handling payroll-related inquiries from HMRC.
• Ability to interpret and apply UK employment laws as they relate to payroll (e.g., National Minimum Wage, holiday pay, redundancy pay, Working Time Regulations).
• Strong client-facing skills with experience managing enterprise client relationships.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot payroll discrepancies.
• Fluency in English (written and spoken).

This is a hybrid position and will require 3 days in office per week.