Senior Payroll Specialist, EMEA
Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.
We are transforming the legal experience for all by bettering the lives of legal professionals while increasing access to justice.
Summary
Senior Payroll Specialist, EMEA
About the job
Clio is more than just a tech company–we are a pioneer in legal technology with a mission to transform the legal experience for all. We are bettering the lives of legal professionals with technology solutions that make legal work more efficient, seamless, and effective, contributing towards increased access to justice.
Who you are
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. 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.
What your team does
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.
What you'll work on
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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;
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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;
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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;
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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;
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Reviewing and signing off on statutory payroll reporting and remittances before submission — including HMRC RTI submissions...