About us

Ocerli is a payroll platform designed to make every pay run effortless. Built on 20 years of expertise and innovation, it gives businesses complete confidence in every detail, so you can focus on your people, not the process.

About Ocerli

At Ocerli, we believe payroll should be simple, powerful and seamless. For more than 20 years, our team has combined payroll expertise with innovation to create payroll software that gives your business confidence and clarity. We turn stress into assurance and admin into insight.

Today, Ocerli payroll software is trusted by more than 1800 organisations. From small local employers to large financial organisations, they choose us as a partner that delivers with clarity, consistency and confidence as they grow.

And we are not standing still. Backed by over two decades of payroll expertise, we continue to refine our platform to deliver sharper focus and smarter ways of working. Built for complexity yet designed for ease, Ocerli is trusted today and ready for tomorrow.

Our History

Our story began in 2004 as Offshore Payroll Limited in Guernsey. From that first step, we grew into a trusted platform, recognised by businesses for our values and payroll expertise. Expansion followed into Jersey, the Isle of Man and other jurisdictions with unique tax and social rules. Supporting local businesses with the flexibility that larger providers couldn’t offer.

We became a Jersey-registered company in 2013, marking a new chapter in our company history. Another turning point came in 2020 when a local consortium run by our four directors acquired the company, investing in our people and our technology. Transforming our desktop product into one of the first SaaS payroll solutions in the offshore market. Their support gave us the resources to accelerate development and deliver faster improvements for the businesses that rely on us.

By 2021, we had launched our new cloud-based payroll software, created by our in-house developers alongside our payroll experts. It redefined how payroll should work: intuitive to use, secure by design and ready to grow with any business.

In 2025, we rebranded as Ocerli. The new name reflects a broader vision. While we remain the go-to provider for specialist jurisdictions, we also plan to serve UK businesses looking for a payroll partner that combines proven payroll expertise with a human, forward-looking approach in the near future.

This evolution marks our commitment to Payroll Perfected.

Our Team

Meet Mike Edward

Managing Director

Mike can run a marathon, bake a perfect sourdough and still turn up to an RNLI shift like it’s the easiest part of his day. He leads with quiet determination and supports the team with the kind of steady confidence that shapes how we serve our clients.

Meet Jeralie Pallot

Director

Jeralie is passionate about building good business and continually refining client service. With a strong marketing background and a thoughtful leadership style, she has a natural ability to read a room and understand what matters most.

Meet Ella Hanley

Client Experience Administrator

Ella can finish a morning cycle, hit a boxing session and still turn up with a smile that makes clients feel instantly at ease. She brings that same warmth and adaptability into onboarding and client support, helping every interaction feel clear and easy to navigate.

Meet Jackie Helks

Client Experience Officer

Jackie can plan a flawless event, map out a smooth user journey and still recommend the best restaurant in any city you mention. She brings that creative detail into every customer moment, making onboarding and day-to-day support feel smooth and well cared for.

Meet Kavitha Nalluri

Software QA Tester

Kavitha can bring a painting to life and still make time to support a community yoga class with calm confidence. She brings that same focus shaped by her big-tech experience into testing every release, ensuring our software is reliable, consistent and ready for clients.

Meet Ross Huelin

Director

Ross sees patterns in systems that the rest of us didn’t even know were there. He brings technical excellence, strategic insight and strong collaboration to every project. He drives our business forward and keeps us at the forefront of technological innovation.

Meet Adam O’Neil

Director

Adam can take apart a complex system, rebuild it cleaner and still have ideas left over for how to make it better next time. He brings that inventive thinking into architecting and refining the systems that keep our platform fast, secure and ready to scale.

Meet Adam Smith

Relationship Manager

Adam can run a complex project, reassure a whole team and still have the patience to explain what happened in plain English. He brings that practical clarity into major migrations and client projects, helping complex changes feel structured and manageable.

Meet Luke Smith

Director

Luke thrives on solving complex business challenges. He brings pace, perspective and clear thinking to board discussions, strategic debates and the moments that matter. His commercial vision and expertise keep us focused on delivering real, measurable value for our clients.

Meet Julie Heaven

Director

Julie can take financial complexity and turn it into a clear path forward before most of us have even opened our inboxes. She brings that thoughtful precision into strengthening our financial operations and governance, keeping our foundations steady as we grow.