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Global Payroll Manager

Profound· Finance
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New York, New York, San Francisco, California$150k - $240kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Payroll leader responsible for end-to-end payroll operations for US, UK, Singapore, and Argentina, with EOR oversight, ensuring compliance, automation, and cross-functional collaboration in a fast-growing AI marketing company.

Responsibilities

  • Run end-to-end payroll for the US, UK, Singapore, and Argentina, including new hires, terminations, salary changes, bonuses, commissions, and other variable pay
  • Administer deductions and benefit contributions, including 401(k) remittances, garnishments, and pension contributions, working with benefits and retirement providers
  • Manage contractor payments and keep worker classification documented with People and Legal
  • Respond to employee questions on pay, deductions, taxes, and benefits, and protect the confidentiality of all payroll data
  • Maintain compliance with local tax, wage and hour, social security, pension, and statutory requirements in every jurisdiction, including registrations, filings (such as Form 941), year-end reporting, and responses to tax authority notices
  • Handle payroll tax for mobile and remote employees across US states and countries
  • Manage our EOR partner for Spain and Germany: validate inputs, review outputs and invoices, and coordinate onboarding, offboarding, and employee questions
  • Own relationships with payroll providers, benefits administrators, and local tax and accounting advisors, and hold them to clear service levels
  • Support equity compensation payroll processes, including withholding and reporting on exercises and vesting events, in coordination with Legal and Carta, plus UK EMI-related items
  • Administer sales commissions and other variable pay with Sales Ops to ensure plans are paid accurately and on schedule
  • Build and maintain payroll calendars, checklists, SOPs, and internal controls, including approvals, segregation of duties, and audit trails
  • Use AI and workflow automation to remove manual work, such as pre-run variance and anomaly checks, input validation, reconciliations, SOP drafting, and triaging routine employee questions
  • Evaluate AI-enabled payroll and HRIS features and automation tools, and recommend what to adopt based on accuracy, cost, and risk
  • Set clear rules for where AI output needs human review and how sensitive employee data is protected when AI tools are used
  • Lead the payroll side of expansion into new countries, from registrations and provider selection to first-run readiness

Qualifications

  • 5 to 8+ years of payroll experience (including multi-country payroll)
  • Hands-on experience running US payroll across multiple states and managing payroll in more than one country
  • US and multi-country experience are must-haves; Singapore- or Argentina-specific experience is a plus, not a requirement
  • Experience working with an EOR or PEO to cover countries without a local entity
  • Deep knowledge of payroll tax and compliance
  • Familiarity with equity compensation mechanics (ISO/NSO, RSUs, withholding, reporting) and cap table tools such as Carta
  • Experience with commission and variable pay structures
  • Track record partnering cross-functionally with Sales Ops and RevOps teams to administer commissions accurately and on schedule
  • Solid accounting fundamentals: journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations, and comfort closing out your own work
  • Close working partnership with People teams; expertise in HRIS tooling; familiarity with Rippling payroll is a plus
  • Practical AI fluency: you have used AI assistants or automation tools to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy
  • Sound judgment on data privacy and security when handling sensitive employee information, including with AI tools
  • Exceptional attention to detail, with the judgment to know when to escalate
  • Excellent communicator across time zones who can explain payroll clearly to non-experts
  • Thrives in ambiguity with a 0-to-1 mindset, and is energized by building structure, processes, and tools where none exist yet
  • Preferred: experience at a high-growth startup, standing up payroll in a new country, supporting payroll and equity audits, or cross-border mobility and shadow payroll

Skills

Required:Multi-country payroll managementUS payroll managementEOR/PEO collaborationPayroll tax & complianceEquity compensation & CartaAI & automation in payrollCross-functional collaborationData privacy & security

Benefits

  • Not specified in the provided text
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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