What Overseas Businesses Must Know
Global payroll solutions from the UK: paying overseas employees, managing multi country payrolls and ensuring compliance across borders.
If your business is expanding internationally and based (partially) in the UK, one of the more complex elements is how you pay overseas employees from UK, manage your international payroll management and choose the right UK International payroll services to support your global workforce.
Whether you’re running a UK entity that has staff abroad, or you’re a non UK parent company paying staff in multiple jurisdictions via your UK hub, you need effective global payroll outsourcing UK capable solutions and multi country payroll solutions that align with your strategy.
At Paul Beare, we specialise in guiding international businesses through these challenges so your payroll and payments operations are seamless, compliant and globally aligned.
Why International Payroll & Payments Matter for Global Businesses
What Our International Payroll & Payments Service Looks Like
Here’s how we support you with global payroll from the UK:
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Strategy & Setup
- We help you define whether your UK entity will manage payroll for overseas staff, or whether local entities are required, or a hybrid model.
- We assess whether you need multi-country payroll solutions from the UK, including which jurisdictions, currencies, employment contracts, and tax/social security regimes apply.
- We configure the UK payroll processes so that international payroll UK side (or via a UK central hub) aligns with your global parent company’s structure, banking, reporting, and treasury flows.
2.
Global Payroll Processing & Payment
- We facilitate the operational elements of paying overseas employees from the UK: calculating salaries, deductions, withholding where required, ensuring compliant payments in local currency, and delivering payslips.
- We partner with payroll providers and international payroll networks, so you benefit from global payroll outsourcing UK-style services while remaining locally compliant in each jurisdiction.
- We handle the payments flow: from the UK bank account, or via treasury arrangements, to overseas bank accounts in local currency, ensuring FX optimisation and control.
- We provide regular management reporting, integration with accounting, and oversight of the payroll function across jurisdictions.
3.
Compliance, Reporting & Risk Management
- We ensure you meet relevant obligations for UK employment and for the foreign jurisdiction where your staff are based: payroll tax, social security (A1 certificates, etc), local withholding, and cross-border day counting.
- We monitor global payroll risks: for example, a UK employer paying non-UK staff, remote working employees domiciled abroad, or employees working across jurisdictions, which may trigger “permanent establishment” or social security issues.
- We maintain your payroll governance, data security, and ensure your payroll provider structure supports your global expansion rather than hindering it.
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Growth & Efficiency
- As your business grows internationally, we help you scale your payroll approaches, adopt unified global payroll platforms managed from the UK, and optimise your payment flows and currencies.
- We aim to be your single UK-based strategic partner for international payroll management, reducing the need for multiple scattered providers and enabling you to leverage economies of scale, consistency, and global oversight.
Checklist For Key Accounting Considerations for Overseas Entities
Here are some must do items to ensure your UK accounting is set up properly:
Have you mapped all jurisdictions where you pay staff from your UK entity (or via your UK hub)?
Are you clear on the applicable local payroll and tax obligations in those jurisdictions (which may include withholding, social security and statutory payments)?
Is your UK payroll system capable of supporting pay overseas employees from UK operations including local currency, foreign taxation, and reporting?
Do you use a provider or service that offers true global payroll outsourcing UK style capabilities - i.e., multi country coverage, centralised reporting, compliance in local jurisdictions?
Do you have management reporting linking your payroll dataset globally into your UK accounting and treasury functions?
Do you have transparent payment flows from your UK bank(s) to overseas employees (currency conversion, FX risk, timing, supplier/invoice interface)?
Are you aware of the cross border risks associated with remotely based UK-employer employees, such as social security liability or establishing a permanent establishment?
Do you have governance controls over payroll compliance, local variations, tax reporting and provider oversight?
Why choose Paul Beare Ltd
Your Partner for International Payroll & Payments
Specialist in global expansion from the UK: We focus on overseas companies operating in or via the UK, so we understand the unique challenges of paying staff from the UK for global operations.
Integrated with our UK entity setup, banking and accounting services: When your payroll is linked to UK formation, UK banking and UK accounting, you benefit from a unified, efficient platform.
Access to multi‑country payroll networks: Through our network we give you access to multi‑country payroll solutions with one UK contact, reducing the complexity of dealing with multiple providers.
Risk‑management and compliance built‑in: We help you navigate cross‑border payroll obligations withholding, social‑security, remote‑working rules, currency and payment flows, so you can scale confidently.
Scalable and flexible: Whether you’re paying a handful of overseas employees or managing a global workforce from the UK, we build a payroll‑and‑payment framework that grows with you.