Global Payroll Officer
🚀 Why Midnite?
We’re a high-performance team operating at pace. High ownership. Constant iteration. No hiding behind processes. We move quickly, test relentlessly, and turn ambitious ideas into real impact. If you’re driven, creative, and thrive in fast-moving environments where you can shape meaningful outcomes - keep reading.
Not your grandad’s bookie.
👀 The Role
Title: Global Payroll Officer
Team: Finance
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000
Location: UK, with strong preference for London. Hybrid working with office collaboration as needed
This role sits at the heart of how Midnite operates, owning payroll across the UK and South Africa and ensuring everything runs accurately, reliably, and at scale. As we continue to grow internationally, you’ll play a key role in shaping how payroll evolves, improving controls, streamlining processes, and helping build a more scalable global foundation. This isn’t just about running payroll, it’s about taking real ownership of a critical function and helping it keep pace with a fast-growing business.
You will:
- Own end-to-end UK payroll delivery using PayFit
- Support and manage South Africa payroll processes across a separate system
- Evaluate, select, and implement a future global payroll solution, owning the project end-to-end from requirements through to rollout
- Manage contractor and EOR payroll operations via Deel
- Handle payroll onboarding, off boarding, and employee lifecycle changes
- Process payroll amendments accurately and within tight monthly deadlines
- Respond to payroll-related queries from employees and internal stakeholders
- Support payroll reconciliations, journals, and reporting activities
- Assist with benefits-related payroll administration, including pensions and changes
- Support P11D and PSA reporting processes
- Improve payroll documentation, controls, and process efficiency as the business scales