Global Payroll & Payroll Software Systems

 Workday Payroll runs natively for the UK, Ireland, France, Australia, Canada and the US, and connects to certified in-country providers through Workday Global Payroll Connect. The Global Payroll Hub gives UK payroll teams a single, real-time view of pay group status, variances and required actions across native and third-party payrolls, so UK-headquartered enterprises can manage in-house and partner-run payrolls together from one experience.

Workday Payroll runs continuously, recalculating results as HR data changes so pay stays current between cycles instead of waiting for a cut-off. Retro pay is handled automatically when upstream HR data changes. Configurable audits, an always-on audit trail and drill-down visibility into every transaction reduce hours spent preparing for internal and external audit, giving UK payroll teams continuous assurance rather than periodic sampling.

Workday Payroll uses Pay Anomalies to apply machine learning to completed payroll results, flagging unusual outcomes for review before payment. Payroll Agent adds proactive support — for example, identifying workers with missing payment elections and surfacing insights from payroll data through a conversational interface — with human review of every recommendation. For UK teams, Payroll Agent includes an RTI Exception Handling skill designed to help resolve HMRC integration issues faster.

Workday Global Payroll Connect provides certified bidirectional integrations between Workday and third-party payroll providers, moving worker, pay input and result data both ways for unified global reporting. This lets UK enterprises keep specialist in-country providers where needed while giving employees a single Workday experience for payslips and tax documents, and giving finance a consolidated view of global labour cost.

 UK employees access online and PDF payslips, P60s, P45s and tax details through Workday self-service on web and mobile, and can update payment elections and personal data themselves. Sana Self-Service Agent, part of Sana from Workday, adds conversational payslip explanations and comparisons in the flow of work, helping employees understand pay, deductions and tax without opening a support case.

 Workday Payroll for the UK calculates PAYE income tax and Class 1 National Insurance using balance totals from completed pay results, with dedicated support for Directors' NI, multiple employments in the same company, retro hire, retro termination and Investment Zone Employers NICs. Workday delivers ongoing HMRC compliance updates, so calculations stay aligned with UK legislative changes each tax year.

Workday Payroll for the UK prepares Full Payment Submissions (FPS) and Employer Payment Summaries (EPS) and submits them to HMRC through the RTI online service, with in-tenant exception reporting and Test in Live validation before sending. Enhanced FPS reporting, Smart RTI and Payroll Agent's RTI Exception Handling skill help UK teams detect and resolve integration issues to HMRC quickly.

Workday Payroll for the UK calculates and pays the core UK statutory payments: Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP), Statutory Paternity Pay (SPP), Statutory Adoption Pay (SAP), Shared Parental Pay (ShPP), Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (SPBP) and Statutory Neonatal Care Pay (SNCP). Recent enhancements include SSP1 reporting, SSP split weeks, SSP offsetting for multiple employments and statutory parental calculation in days.

Workday Payroll for the UK supports Pensions Auto-Enrolment end-to-end: identifying staging and re-enrolment dates, defining qualifying schemes, assessing workers within the payroll calculation, enrolling them, deducting contributions and applying postponement at employer or worker level. Continuous Workday-delivered Payroll Compliance Updates keep HMRC tax, National Insurance, court order and pension rules current, so UK payroll teams work from a system that stays aligned with legislative changes.