Client Payroll Executive (Paycheck Plus)
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
At IRIS Software Group, we help organisations run every day - including making sure thousands of people are paid correctly and on time.
This role sits within our Paycheck Plus team, part of our Managed Payroll Services function - where we take full responsibility for running payroll on behalf of our clients.
This is not internal payroll.
This is real client delivery, real responsibility, and work that matters every single month.
🧾 Why This Role Matters
Payroll is simple when it works - and critical when it doesn’t.
As a Client Payroll Executive, you’ll be trusted to manage payrolls for multiple clients, making sure everything is:
- Accurate
- On time
- Fully compliant
You are the person clients rely on to get it right.
When you do, employees get paid correctly, clients trust us, and relationships grow.
👥 About the Team You'll Join
You’ll join our Paycheck Plus team - a specialist payroll bureau within Managed Payroll Services.
- Around 10 experienced Client Payroll Executives and Senior colleagues
- Each person owns their own client payrolls
- Support is always there when needed, but you’re trusted to manage your work
It’s a team that values accuracy, accountability, and helping each other succeed.
💼 What You'll Be Doing
- Managing end-to-end Irish payrolls for multiple clients
- Processing monthly payrolls accurately and on time
- Handling calculations, deductions, benefits, and reporting
- Ensuring compliance with Irish legislation, GDPR, and internal standards
- Acting as the main point of contact for payroll queries from clients and their employees
- Building strong relationships with your clients - becoming someone they trust
- Identifying ways to improve processes, efficiency, and automation
- Supporting wider projects such as system improvements and testing
✅ What We’re Looking For
This role is built for someone who already understands payroll in a bureau or outsourced environment.
You’ll bring:
- IPASS qualification (or working towards it)
- Strong experience processing Irish payroll end-to-end
- Experience managing multiple client payrolls
- Knowledge of Sage Micropay, payroll journals, CSO returns, benefits
- Confidence using Excel and Outlook
- Strong attention to detail - you spot what others miss
- Clear, professional communication skills
- The ability to manage your own deadlines and workload
- A team-focused mindset with a willingness to support others
🎯 What You’ll Gain
- Ownership of your own client portfolio
- A structured, professional payroll environment with clear standards
- Exposure to a wide variety of clients and payroll scenarios
- A supportive team that understands the demands of payroll
- Opportunities to improve processes and contribute to how we work
- Stability and growth within a global software and services business
🚀 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 our Client Payroll Team Leaders.
If you’re experienced in Irish payroll, used to managing multiple clients, and take pride in delivering accurate, compliant work - this is a role where you can do exactly that, every day, with the backing of a strong team.
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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