Implementation Consultant with Hands-on Payroll Experience

IRIS Software Group is one of the UK's largest privately held software companies, trusted by 100,000+ businesses, schools, and accountancy firms to keep their operations running. Our software pays 1 in 6 UK employees, supports over 12,000 schools, and is relied on by 91 of the top 100 UK accountancy firms.

We're a Great Place to Work® certified employer, recognized for our commitment to well-being, inclusion, and development—and we're growing fast.

At IRIS Software Group, we create software that helps businesses manage critical processes including payroll, HR, finance, and compliance.

We’re looking for an Implementation Consultant with hands-on payroll experience to help customers successfully implement our SaaS solutions.

Payroll knowledge is essential for this role. You might have gained this through payroll processing, payroll software, payroll systems, or payroll implementation. Alongside this, you’ll have experience implementing, configuring, or supporting software and be comfortable working directly with customers.

You’ll take customers from understanding their requirements through to configuration, data migration, testing, training, and go-live. It’s a hands-on, customer-facing role where you’ll solve problems, manage multiple pieces of work, and build deeper expertise in payroll technology.

🧾 What Will You Be Doing?

As an Implementation Consultant, you will:

• Manage payroll software implementations for new and existing customers
• Understand customers’ payroll processes and requirements and translate these into the right software setup
• Configure SaaS products, workflows, and customer-specific requirements
• Support payroll data migration, integrations, and testing
• Work with APIs, ETL processes, and data transformation where required
• Guide customers through user acceptance testing and readiness for go-live
• Deliver training and explain software clearly to customers
• Support customers during go-live and their transition into ongoing support
• Manage multiple customer projects and priorities at the same time
• Work with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to resolve issues and deliver successful outcomes
• Keep customers informed about progress, timelines, risks, and issues
• Travel to customer sites when required.

🎓 What Are We Looking For?

We’re particularly interested in people with:

• Hands-on payroll experience and a good understanding of payroll processes – essential
• Experience in SaaS/software implementation, onboarding, or technical consulting
• Experience working directly with customers to understand requirements and implement solutions
• Experience with payroll software or systems
• Understanding of software configuration, workflows, and integrations
• Experience with APIs, ETL, data migration, or data transformation
• Confidence managing several customers, projects, or priorities
• The ability to explain software and technical information in simple terms
• Experience with Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, or similar tools would be useful

You may currently be an Implementation Consultant, Payroll Implementation Consultant, Payroll Systems Consultant, Payroll Consultant, SaaS Consultant, or Technical Consultant.

You don’t need to know IRIS products already. This role is suited to someone with relevant hands-on experience who wants to develop deeper payroll, product, and technical expertise.

🚀 What Can IRIS Offer You?

• The opportunity to develop specialist expertise in payroll technology and SaaS
• Ownership of customer implementations and technical project work
• Support from experienced colleagues across Professional Services
• Exposure to Product, Engineering, Customer Success, and Sales
• Opportunities to continue developing your implementation and consulting career.