A specialist payroll bureau, born from the IR35 reforms.

Lexarox Payroll runs CIS for construction, PAYE for ambitious UK companies, and IR35 and umbrella support for off-payroll workers. More than 200 UK employers every month, more than 1,000 since
2017.

WHERE WE CAME FROM

From accountancy add-on to standalone bureau.

Lexarox started in 2013 as an accountancy practice in Hackney, East London, founded by Andreea Roxana Deac. Over the years that practice grew into a multi-disciplinary group: accounting, legal, and (since 2017) payroll.

Lexarox Payroll was set up in 2017 in response to the IR35 reforms. The 2017 public sector reform, and the 2021 private sector extension, moved the responsibility for determining a contractor's employment status from the contractor's own company to the business engaging them. Almost overnight, UK businesses needed proper PAYE schemes or compliant umbrella arrangements for workers they had previously treated as self-employed. We grew out of that change.

Today Lexarox Payroll is a standalone specialist bureau within the wider Lexarox Group. More than 200 UK businesses run their payroll through us every month, with more than 1,000 served since 2017.

WHAT WE DO

Three audiences, one service line.

We work with three kinds of client. Construction contractors with CIS schemes. UK companies running PAYE for employees. And contractors or businesses navigating IR35 and umbrella arrangements. Each audience comes to us for the same reason: a payroll team whose only job is payroll, with people who know the rules of each regime end to end.

CIS payroll

CIS payroll is our headline specialism. The construction industry has its own deduction regime, its own monthly filing cadence and its own quirks (gross payment status, verification, mixed schemes), and most generalist accountants do not have the rhythm to run it cleanly. We do.

Business payroll

Business payroll is the broadest service. Hospitality, cleaning, care, retail, transport, professional services. We process and file PAYE payroll for hundreds of UK companies every month.

IR35 & umbrella

IR35 and umbrella sits at the contractor end of the market. We support both sides: the businesses carrying the determination obligation, and the contractors moving between PSC and umbrella as engagements change.

The Team

Who looks after your payroll.

Cristina Beleuță, our Head of Payroll, leads all payroll work and has been with Lexarox Payroll since 2020. Laura-Elena Pancescu, our Office Manager, has been with the firm since 2025 and keeps the office and the workflow moving. Andreea oversees the wider Lexarox Group as CEO. Behind the three lead roles, a wider support team helps with onboarding, document flow and day-to-day admin so the cycle runs smoothly behind the scenes.

Between the three leads and the support team, your payroll is looked after at every step, from the first call to month after month after that. Quick query, complex CIS question, busy month-end: you always have someone to talk to.

Cristina Beleuță

Head of Payroll

Laura-Elena Pancescu

Office Manager

Andreea Roxana Deac

CEO

WHAT WE BELIEVE

Payroll should run quietly.

Accuracy first

Payroll is the wrong place to be clever. Calculate the right amounts. File with HMRC on time. Hand over a clean payslip. Everything else is downstream.

Transparent pricing

Fixed monthly fee, agreed in writing before any work starts. You know the price before you commit, and the price holds while the scope holds.

HMRC, on your behalf

We are an HMRC-AML supervised and authorised agent. Coding notices, GNS messages, penalty letters, compliance checks. They come to us, so you don’t miss anything.

From timesheet to payslip

In a typical month it goes something like this. Clients usually send us their timesheets and any changes for the period (new starters, leavers, the occasional bonus). From there we verify the figures, calculate the deductions, register new joiners with HMRC where needed, run the payroll cycle, file the RTI, and issue the payslips, CIS statements and any P45s. We let the client know the tax liability, the due date and the method of payment, and the client takes care of paying the employees and settling the HMRC liability. Every month it runs quietly in the background, exactly the way payroll should.

Multicultural team

Our team comes from multicultural backgrounds and many of us are immigrants ourselves, with prior careers in hospitality and customer service before specialising in payroll. The workforces we run payroll for, especially in construction and hospitality, often include people from many nationalities, and the documentation that comes with that. We understand both sides of the counter.

PART OF THE LEXAROX GROUP

More than payroll, when you need it.

Lexarox Payroll is part of the Lexarox Group, a multi-disciplinary group with three complementary specialist firms. Lexarox Accounts (accountancy and tax, since 2013) and Lexarox Legal (legal consultancy) cover the work that sits either side of payroll. When you need more than payroll, we hand you over to the right firm without losing a beat.

Visit Lexarox Accounts

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