Senior Client Payroll Executive (Paycheck Plus)
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
Paycheck Plus is Ireland’s leading and award-winning payroll outsourcing provider for small and medium-sized businesses. From our headquarters in Drogheda, we manage payrolls for clients across Ireland and beyond, combining accuracy, compliance, and care to make sure employees are paid correctly, on time, every time.
We’re also part of the global IRIS Software Group, which means the work we do here in Ireland contributes to a worldwide reputation for payroll excellence.
We’re now looking for an experienced Senior Client Payroll Executive to join our growing team and help us continue delivering the exceptional service our clients rely on.
This position can be based in either the UK or Ireland, with flexibility to work remotely while collaborating closely with our Drogheda-based team.
Why This Role Matters
Payroll is the backbone of every business. Get it right, and employees are happy, businesses run smoothly, and trust is built. Get it wrong, and the impact can be huge.
As a Senior Client Payroll Executive, you’ll play a key role in:
- Protecting trust – ensuring payrolls are accurate, compliant, and on time.
- Solving problems – handling complex queries, supporting clients through challenges, and giving them confidence that their payroll is in safe hands.
- Supporting leadership – stepping in for the Team Lead when needed, keeping everything running smoothly.
- Driving improvements – contributing ideas to make our payroll services even better, faster, and smarter.
Your work will directly impact our clients, their employees, and the success of Paycheck Plus within the wider IRIS Group.
About the Team You'll Join
You’ll be part of a close-knit team of 10 payroll professionals, ranging from new starters to seasoned experts. We support each other, share knowledge, and celebrate wins together. Every day is different – you’ll learn something new and gain exposure to a wide variety of payrolls and industries.
For those who want to progress, we’ll provide the training, mentoring, and opportunities to move into supervisory or management roles.
What You'll Be Doing
- Running monthly payrolls for some of our most important ROI clients, ensuring everything is 100% accurate and compliant.
- Supporting the Client Payroll Team Lead with planning workloads and stepping up in their absence.
- Resolving client complaints, Revenue queries, journal issues, and portal problems.
- Carrying out quality checks and ensuring compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISAE 3402, GDPR, KPIs and other standards.
- Acting as a trusted advisor for clients and their employees, providing friendly and professional support on payroll matters.
- Building strong relationships with our client base, including global brands.
- Getting involved in payroll process improvement projects, system upgrades, automation, and testing.
What We’re Looking For
To succeed in this role, you’ll need:
- Significant Irish payroll experience in a high-volume, deadline-driven environment.
- Experience with Sage Micropay, ARW, payroll journals, CSO returns, benefits etc.
- Strong skills in Excel and Outlook.
- Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills – able to manage your own busy schedule.
- Clear and confident English communication skills, written and verbal.
- A genuine team-player attitude – willing to support others while working independently.
- Curiosity and initiative – keen to spot improvements and drive better ways of working.
What You’ll Gain
- The chance to work for Ireland’s top payroll provider within a global software group.
- A role where your skills are valued, and your work makes a direct difference.
- Career development opportunities – with support to grow into team lead or management roles.
- Exposure to high-profile clients and international payroll operations.
- A collaborative and supportive environment, with colleagues who share your passion for payroll.
Our Application Process
We believe hiring should be fair, transparent, and supportive:
1️⃣ Apply online
Send your resume and a few details. No long forms.
2️⃣ Initial Interview (plus Online Assessments)
- A chat with our Talent team.
- Two short assessments:
- CCAT (15-minute timed test).
- EPP (untimed personality questionnaire).
3️⃣ Competency & Technical Interview (MS Teams)
A detailed interview with a Team Leader and Regional Operations Manager.
At Paycheck Plus, payroll is more than numbers – it’s about accuracy, trust, and service. If you’re an experienced payroller looking for the next step in your career, and you want to join an award-winning team where your expertise will really count, we’d love to hear from you.
👉 Apply today and be part of Ireland’s payroll experts.
About IRIS
As one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.
IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.
Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.
Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity.
It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time.
That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.
IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.
They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today.
We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women.
These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.
IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do.
This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.
Why work for IRIS?
The Benefits
Developing your career
We believe in creating a culture of engagement and reward to develop your potential and offer long-term career success. We do this by:
Supporting our managers to be great leaders, providing inspirational management resources and offering dedicated management development training.
Rewarding individual excellence through dedicated initiatives and Employee Awards for demonstrating our values.
Offering regular training and development programmes tailored to each employee’s development needs and providing a commitment to a ‘learning culture’ which shares knowledge, best practice and our long-standing expertise between employees.
We’re committed to a culture of continuous improvement and listen to our employees via regular feedback sessions and employee engagement surveys.
Our employees love the colleagues they work with. We promote a positive environment where our people feel comfortable, make friends and support each other.
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