Accounting, payroll, and education software for 100,000+ organisations globally
IRIS is a 1,000+ person, UK-based software company serving accounting firms, employers, and schools across 135 countries. The active project list reveals a company mid-transformation: cloud migration and GenAI integration sit alongside foundational work (payroll compliance, data migration, client onboarding). Pain-point clustering around payroll errors, tax deadlines, and compliance risk suggests the core business is still anchored to manual, deadline-driven processes—areas where automation and AI tooling can unlock significant value.
Notable leadership hires: Payroll Team Lead
IRIS Software Group builds integrated cloud software for accounting, HR, payroll, and education sectors. On the accounting side, they serve 54 of the top 100 US accountancy firms and 93 of the top 100 UK firms, plus over 12,000 schools and academies. Their payroll and HR products manage almost one million UK employees and process salaries for one in six UK employees. The company operates Centres of Excellence in India and Romania to support development and maintains a global support footprint across the UK, US, Canada, and Ireland. Their product portfolio spans cloud accounting, cloud HCM, payroll, and education management platforms.
IRIS runs primarily on .NET, C#, ASP.NET Core, JavaScript, and AWS/Azure cloud infrastructure. Desktop integration centres on Microsoft Office, Excel, and Outlook. They also deploy Salesforce, HubSpot, Figma, and Asana internally.
Active projects include cloud transformation, GenAI-driven solutions, payroll process improvements, data migration, client onboarding, and localisation for education segments. Payroll compliance and year-end processing remain operational priorities.
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