Global Payroll Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Run employee payroll cycles across assigned countries, coordinating inputs, validations, approvals, funding deadlines, and provider processing so employees are paid accurately and on time.
• Review new hires, departures, compensation changes, bonuses, benefits, deductions, and equity-related payroll inputs with functional owners; investigate exceptions before approval.
• Reconcile payroll outputs to approved inputs, funding, and accounting records. Partner with Accounting on journals, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, and month-end close.
• Maintain country calendars and evidence of required filings and remittances, working with providers and local advisers to resolve issues and complete year-end activities.
• Lead payroll workstreams for acquisitions and new-country launches, including data mapping, cutover planning, testing, parallel runs where appropriate, and post-launch reconciliation.

Key Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive payroll experience in high-growth tech startups
• Hands-on ownership of US payroll and experience delivering payroll in additional countries through local teams or providers.
• Strong understanding of payroll processing, reconciliations, statutory deadlines, controls, and year-end reporting, with judgment about when to involve local tax or legal specialists.
• Experience delivering a payroll optimization, vendor transition, acquisition integration, or new-country launch from planning through stabilization.
• Practical experience with an enterprise HRIS and payroll platform, including data validation, reporting, testing, and troubleshooting. Rippling or comparable systems experience is valuable.