Client Payroll Team Lead (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 payroll outsourcing provider for small and medium-sized businesses. From our base in Drogheda, we handle payrolls for clients across Ireland and overseas – making sure every payslip is accurate, compliant, and delivered on time.
We’re part of IRIS Software Group, a global payroll and HR technology leader. Together, we help thousands of businesses worldwide pay their people correctly, every time.
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
This role is all about people - both your team and your clients.
As Client Payroll Team Lead, you’ll guide a team of skilled Payroll Executives, helping them deliver accurate, reliable, and efficient payrolls for our clients. You’ll set standards, solve problems, and make sure the team has the tools and confidence they need to succeed.
If you love payroll, enjoy mentoring others, and take pride in getting the details right, this is your chance to lead in an award-winning business where your work truly makes an impact.
About the Team You'll Join
You’ll join our Managed Payroll Services team - a close-knit group who care about their work and each other. We believe in collaboration, sharing knowledge, and celebrating success. You’ll work closely with our Regional Operations Manager and leadership team, with plenty of support to grow and shape your own career too.
What You'll Be Doing
Lead and Support Your Team
- Manage, mentor, and motivate a team of Client Payroll Executives.
- Run regular check-ins, performance reviews, and training sessions.
- Help plan workloads, schedule payrolls, and maintain high accuracy and productivity.
- Approve timesheets, leave, and other team administration.
💼 Keep Payrolls Accurate and Compliant
- Oversee payroll processing for a portfolio of clients.
- Ensure payrolls meet all legal, regulatory, and internal requirements.
- Review and improve existing processes, introducing smarter and more efficient ways of working.
- Support automation and system updates to keep things running smoothly.
🤝 Build Strong Client Relationships
- Be a trusted point of contact for clients – approachable, knowledgeable, and dependable.
- Help the team manage client queries quickly and effectively.
- Support the onboarding of new clients and make sure service expectations are clear.
- Monitor feedback and work with your team to maintain excellent client satisfaction.
🧾 Stay Hands-On When Needed
- Process and review payrolls to stay sharp on systems and compliance.
- Keep up to date with Irish payroll legislation, best practices, and reporting standards.
What We’re Looking For
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
- Strong Irish payroll experience, ideally in a bureau or multi-client environment.
- Previous team lead or supervisory experience, or the ability to step into leadership confidently.
- A solid understanding of Irish payroll legislation and reporting.
- Excellent attention to detail and a passion for accuracy.
- Great communication and problem-solving skills – you know how to stay calm under pressure.
- A positive, can-do attitude and genuine care for your team and clients.
What You’ll Gain
- A leadership position where your experience and ideas are valued.
- Ongoing training and development to grow your career within Paycheck Plus and the wider IRIS Software Group.
- The chance to make a real difference to your team and our clients every day.
- Competitive pay, great benefits, and a supportive, friendly workplace.
At Paycheck Plus, we believe payroll is more than numbers - it’s about trust, care, and getting things right for people.
If you’re ready to take the next step and lead a team that values accuracy, service, and teamwork, we’d love to hear from you.
👉 Apply today and join 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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