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Payroll Lead

Lovable· FDN
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StockholmFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior, high-ownership payroll leadership role focused on shaping and delivering Lovable's payroll in a potentially open model (outsourced, in-house, or hybrid). Start in Sweden with potential global scale, building a modern, automated payroll function at a fast-growing AI company.

Responsibilities

  • Shape and own how payroll is delivered: whether we oversee and approve outsourced service centres, bring payroll fully in-house end-to-end, or a mix, and lead the transition wherever it lands
  • Build payroll into a tight, reliable, highly automated operation, with accuracy and control as the standard
  • Own payroll accounting: journals, accruals and reconciliations into the GL, and support month-end close
  • Drive automation of payroll so recurring work is systematised, not manual
  • Own the payroll and tax treatment of equity events (option exercises, secondaries, clawbacks, benefits in kind), coordinating with Finance and Tax
  • Own payroll taxes and compliance: employer contributions, PAYE, social security, year-end reporting and record retention
  • Maintain payroll controls and an auditable trail, and support external audit
  • Grow into Global Payroll Lead, owning payroll across all entities as the business scales

Qualifications

  • A deeply AI-pilled way of working: you reach for AI and automation by default and want to build a modern, automated payroll function rather than a manual one
  • Expert Swedish payroll knowledge, hands-on and current: Skatteverket employer reporting (AGI), employer contributions, expert tax / SINK, pensions and benefits, and a working knowledge of LAS and BFL
  • A proven track record owning payroll: you have done this before and can point to it
  • Senior-manager level, with at least 8 years of payroll experience
  • A genuine appetite to own payroll end-to-end and to shape the operating model, including the build-versus-buy decision on what we run in-house versus outsource
  • Strong payroll accounting skills: journals, accruals, reconciliations, month-end close and correct entity and cost-centre coding
  • Exposure to equity / share-based compensation payroll and benefit-in-kind taxation
  • International or multi-entity payroll exposure (UK, US, EOR) is a strong plus
  • Comfort with ambiguity and a greenfield remit, and an audit-ready, controls-minded way of working
  • The ability to work independently and make decisions without a team behind you yet
  • Excellent communication skills in English (Swedish is a strong plus)

Skills

Required:Payroll ownershipSwedish payroll knowledgePayroll accountingAutomation and AI-minded work
Nice to have:Equity payroll experience

Benefits

  • Please submit your application in English.
  • Company language is English for all communications.
  • Career development into Global Payroll Lead as the business scales.
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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