Senior Payroll Specialist (EMEA)

• We’re looking for an experienced payroll professional to own our UK and Ireland payroll end to end, and to be the second set of eyes on everything the rest of our EMEA payroll team produces
• Our Payroll team sits within People and delivers accurate, compliant, on-time payroll for Clions across EMEA and beyond. We’re a global team with presence in APAC, EMEA, North America and LATAM, and we own payroll and benefits reconciliation, statutory reporting, year-end, and the Workday payroll configuration that makes it all run — and we’re actively strengthening our controls and documentation as Clio grows
• Preparing and processing our monthly UK and Ireland payroll cycles end to end — inputs, validations, statutory calculations, funding and payment files, payroll journal entries, invoice payment and month-end reconciliation — working with our in-country providers to deliver on time every month
• Owning complex and non-routine calculations, including terminations and settlement agreements, statutory and occupational leave payments, salary sacrifice and benefit-in-kind treatment, cross-border and multi-jurisdiction pay cases, and equ ity transactions in Workday
• Acting as the reviewer on all Payroll Specialist output across our EMEA & APAC pay cycles — payroll register and gross-to-net review, variance analysis, off-cycle and manual payments, and final pay calculations — before payroll is released
• Being the first escalation point for our Payroll Specialists, taking on the payroll, benefits and tax matters that can’t be resolved at first line
• Reviewing and signing off on statutory payroll reporting and remittances before submission — including HMRC RTI submissions and Revenue payroll submissions — and owning year-end reconciliation and the production of P60, P11D and equivalent Irish year-end reporting
• Supporting the payroll set-up for new countries as Clio expands — scoping requirements, selecting and onboarding in-country or EOR providers, building the calendar, controls and documentation, and running the first cycles to a stable state
• Acting as our primary payroll contact for annual financial audits and ad-hoc external payroll and tax audits
• Training and coaching our Payroll Specialists, and owning the SOPs and operating manuals that keep the function resilient
• Maintaining Workday, testing configuration changes and releases, and supporting Workday Payroll system changes alongside our Payroll Manager and Payroll Implementation Specialist

Benefits

• Specialized learning and development programs and access to an in-house performance coach
• Equitable compensation for your contributions, regardless of gender, race, or any other identifying factor
• Access to pay transparency on all of our global roles
• Company equity for applicable employees
• RRSP-matching in Canada, 401k in the US, and pension plans in Ireland
• Hybrid model – striking the right balance between the benefits of in person connectivity that in office brings, and the flexibility of remote
• Flexible paid time off (4-week minimum with opportunities for personalization based on individual needs and achievements)
• Parental leave options for birthing and non-birthing parents
• A $500 contribution to your child’s RESP
• Various health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family, including an Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Virtual and In-person Wellness Programs to support mental and physical health
• Paid time for volunteering through our Clio Gives program
• $2000 annual counseling benefit for CAD Clions- You’re the person others come to when a calculation doesn’t look right, and you’re comfortable holding a colleague’s work to a standard — finding the error, explaining the root cause, and confirming the fix
• You know UK and Irish payroll legislation deeply, you’re rigorous about controls and documentation, and you’d rather build a teammate’s capability than quietly rework their output
• You’re also energised by new territory: as Clio expands into new countries, you’re the person who leads the payroll set-up rather than waiting for someone to hand you a process
• Experience standing up payroll in a new country, or leading a country onboarding with an in-country provider.
• Full-cycle UK and Ireland payroll experience, including PAYE, National Insurance, PRSI and USC, RTI and Revenue submissions, pensions auto-enrolment, statutory leave payments, and year-end
• Rigour when reviewing others’ work — you identify the error, explain the root cause, and confirm the correction rather than reworking in isolation
• Sound judgment on when to decide and when to escalate
• AI fluency — you actively use AI tools in your day-to-day work and look for ways to apply them to payroll processes, with the judgment to know where human review is non-negotiable
• Advanced Workday and Excel proficiency, and comfort reconciling high volumes of data across systems
• CIPP qualification (or equivalent), and 5–7 years of progressive payroll experience including at least two years reviewing and approving the work of others
• Experience with equity and stock-based compensation payroll reporting
• A second-country payroll qualification, or IPASS (Ireland) certification
• Exposure to payroll in other EMEA countries — Spain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, or Turkey — and to global payroll or EOR technology and shadow payroll
• Experience supporting a payroll system implementation or migration, including parallel runs and UAT