Payroll Team Lead

About Terracotta Outsourcing

Terracotta Outsourcing is a prominent company in the UAE specializing in recruitment, manpower, visa outsourcing, EOR/PEO, business setup, PRO services, and corporate solutions throughout the region. We are seeking a skilled Payroll Team Lead to oversee our outsourcing functions, emphasizing onboarding, regulatory compliance, and client relationship management.

Key Responsibilities and Expertise

• Comprehensive knowledge of payroll calculation practices including gross-to-net pay, accruals, provisions, retroactive pay adjustments, leave salary, end-of-service benefits, allowances, and deductions.
• In-depth understanding of UAE Labour Law, employment contracts, WPS (SIF), and compliance standards related to payroll operations.
• Capability to manage intricate payroll arrangements involving both blue-collar and large-scale white-collar employee groups.
• Insight into payroll as a financial framework, including cost distribution, payroll provisions, accruals, workforce cost evaluation, and strategies to improve profit and loss.
• Awareness of payroll's influence on client invoicing, cost-to-client modelling, recharge mechanisms, margin sensitivity, and comparing utilization with expenses.
• Proficient in identifying and reducing risks related to payroll, billing errors, and revenue leakages.
• Competence in interpreting client contracts and commercial terms to ensure accurate payroll and billing accruals.
• Able to critically assess and verify outputs from payroll systems beyond routine processing.
• Advanced Excel abilities covering reconciliations, variance analyses, pivot tables, lookups, and handling large datasets.

Qualifications and Experience

• 4 to 8 years of UAE-based payroll experience within staffing, outsourcing, EOR/PEO services, manpower supply, workforce solutions, or shared services sectors.
• At least 2 years of leadership or supervisory experience managing a small team (2-3 members).
• Proven track record in managing payrolls for both white-collar and blue-collar employees across multiple clients and entities.
• Experience with large-scale payroll operations, not limited to software execution such as SAP, Oracle, or D365; must be capable of challenging system-generated results critically.
• Understanding of the interconnectedness between payroll processes, finance, billing, and compliance requirements.
• Strong collaboration skills for working with Finance, Operations, and Legal departments in designing payroll systems and control mechanisms.