Senior Payroll Specialist
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About the Role
Terracotta Outsourcing is hiring a Senior Payroll Specialist to lead payroll operations for EOR and staffing solutions. The role requires deep UAE payroll expertise, including gross-to-net calculations, WPS compliance, and financial acumen.
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Responsibilities
- Manage complex payroll structures across blue collar and high volume white collar workforce
- Interpret client contracts, compensation structures, and commercial agreements to ensure payroll and billing accruals
- Validate and challenge payroll system outputs rather than simply processing transactions
- Identify and mitigate payroll, billing, and revenue leakage risks
- Work with Finance, Operations, and Legal teams on payroll design and controls
Requirements
- 4–8 years of UAE payroll experience within staffing, outsourcing, EOR/PEO, manpower supply, workforce solutions, or shared services environments
- Minimum 2 years of team leadership or supervisory experience leading at least 2 3 members
- Deep understanding of payroll computation methodology, including gross to net calculations, accruals, provisions, retroactive adjustments, leave salary, EOSB, allowances, and deductions
- Strong knowledge of UAE Labour Law, employment contracts, WPS (SIF), and payroll compliance requirements
- Ability to interpret payroll as a financial model, including cost allocation, payroll provisions, accruals, workforce costing, and P&L improvements
- Advanced Excel skills, including reconciliations, variance analysis, pivot tables, lookups, and large dataset management
- Must be able to challenge system outputs, not just process them
- Must understand how payroll decisions impact finance, billing, and compliance simultaneously
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Position Overview
- We are a leading outsourcing company in the UAE, delivering recruitment, manpower, visa outsourcing, EOR/PEO, business setup, PRO services, and corporate solutions across the region. We are currently hiring an experienced Senior Payroll Specialist to lead our outsourcing operations and drive excelle
Key Responsibilities
- Deep understanding of payroll computation methodology, including gross to net calculations, accruals, provisions, retroactive adjustments, leave salary, EOSB, allowances, and deductions.
- Strong knowledge of UAE Labour Law, employment contracts, WPS (SIF), and payroll compliance requirements.
- Experience managing complex payroll structures across blue collar and high volume white collar workforce.
- Ability to interpret payroll as a financial model, including cost allocation, payroll provisions, accruals, workforce costing, and P&L improvements.
- Strong understanding of payroll's impact on client billing, cost to client mapping, recharge models, margin sensitivity, and utilization versus cost.
- Proven ability to identify and mitigate payroll, billing, and revenue leakage risks.
- Ability to interpret client contracts, compensation structures, and commercial agreements to ensure payroll and billing accruals.
- Must be capable of validating and challenging payroll system outputs rather than simply processing transactions.
- Advanced Excel skills, including reconciliations, variance analysis, pivot tables, lookups, and large dataset management.
Qualifications & Experience
- 4–8 years of UAE payroll experience within staffing, outsourcing, EOR/PEO, manpower supply, workforce solutions, or shared services environments.
- Minimum 2 years of team leadership or supervisory experience leading at least 2 3 members.
- Proven experience managing high volume payrolls across multiple clients, entities, and workforce categories.
- Not limited to HRMS execution (SAP/Oracle/D365 etc. is secondary).
- Must be able to challenge system outputs, not just process them.
- Must understand how payroll decisions impact finance, billing, and compliance simultaneously.
- Strong ability to work with Finance, Operations, and Legal teams on payroll design and controls.
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