Global Payroll Manager

What you’ll do

• End-to-end payroll execution across all active entities and pay schedules, including multi-state US payroll with varying pay frequencies and commission cycles; UK PAYE with HMRC filings, National Insurance contributions, pension auto-enrolment, and statutory pay calculations; Canadian federal and provincial remittances, Record of Employment filings, and CPP/EI; Singapore CPF contributions, MOM compliance, and IR8A filings; UAE WPS compliance and gratuity calculations; and contractor payroll with IC agreements, payment schedules, and 1099-equivalent filings.
• Coordinate with each EOR provider, validate invoices against actuals, and resolve discrepancies.
• Process payments and support the finance team’s general ledger journals, month-end reconciliations, and variance analysis.
• Work closely with the finance team to ensure payroll liabilities, accruals, and actual disbursements are reflected accurately across entities.
• Manage cycle-by-cycle processing for variable compensation, working directly with Finance and Revenue Operations to ensure timing, accuracy, and correct tax withholding.
• Stay ahead of evolving payroll tax requirements across every jurisdiction.
• Manage W-2s, P60s, P45s, T4s, and other international equivalents, and ensure regulatory filings are complete, accurate, and on time.
• Reconcile benefits deductions against carrier invoices and manage international statutory leave top-up calculations.
• Lead new country setup for Payroll operations: systems configuration, testing, and end-to-end cycle execution.
• Serve as a trusted resource for employees navigating payroll questions, tax situations, payslip discrepancies, and equity withholding.
• Identify manual inefficiencies and build scalable workflows that integrate cleanly with Finance and HR systems.

What you need

• 6–10+ years of payroll experience, ideally in a high-growth, global technology company.
• Experience with Rippling Payroll.
• Strong command of US multi-state payroll — multi-frequency schedules, state-specific compliance.
• International payroll experience across at least two of: UK, Canada, Singapore, or UAE.
• Experience managing EOR and third-party payroll vendors — coordinating across providers, reviewing outputs for accuracy, and holding vendors to a high standard.
• Regulatory expertise and compliance instincts — proactively research evolving requirements.
• Systems proficiency, and aptitude for learning new tools quickly.
• Analytical rigor and documentation habits — high accuracy, strong attention to detail.
• Clear, effective communication — able to partner with Finance, Legal, and People teams, and explain payroll discrepancies to employees.
• Proactive, systems-minded approach — spot inefficiencies and build better processes.

Even better if…

• Familiarity with equity compensation tax and withholding (RSUs, options).
• Experience supporting global entity setup and new-country payroll launches.
• CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) or equivalent certification.
• Experience designing or managing scalable payroll audits and internal controls.
• Background working with shadow payrolls or complex expatriate payroll arrangements.
• Payroll accounting fundamentals — comfortable with GL journals, month-end reconciliations.