# Payroll Lead

**Company:** [Lovable](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lovable)
**Location:** Stockholm, Sweden
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Swedish Payroll, Agi Reporting, Employer Contributions, Sink Tax, Payroll Accounting, Payroll Automation, Payroll Compliance, Paye, Social Security, Equity Compensation, Benefits Administration, General Ledger, Month-End Close, Eor Payroll
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Own and modernize Swedish payroll at a rapidly growing AI company, defining the outsourced or in-house operating model and building an automated, audit-ready function. Requires 8+ years of payroll experience, expert Swedish compliance knowledge, strong payroll accounting skills, and potential to scale into global payroll leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and own the payroll operating model, including whether payroll remains outsourced, moves in-house, or uses a hybrid approach.
- Lead the transition to the selected model, starting with Sweden and potentially scaling globally.
- Build a reliable, accurate, highly automated payroll operation.
- Own payroll accounting, including journals, accruals, reconciliations, general-ledger integration, and month-end close support.
- Automate recurring payroll processes and reduce manual work.
- Manage payroll and tax treatment for equity events, including option exercises, secondary transactions, clawbacks, and benefits in kind.
- Own payroll taxes and compliance, including employer contributions, PAYE, social security, year-end reporting, and record retention.
- Maintain payroll controls and an audit-ready trail; support external audits.
- Grow into responsibility for global payroll across all company entities.

## Requirements
- At least 8 years of payroll experience.
- Expert, current, hands-on Swedish payroll knowledge, including Skatteverket employer reporting (AGI), employer contributions, expert tax/SINK, pensions, and benefits.
- Working knowledge of LAS and BFL.
- Proven end-to-end payroll ownership experience.
- Strong payroll accounting skills, including journals, accruals, reconciliations, and entity and cost-center coding.
- Experience with payroll compliance, controls, and audit readiness.
- Ability to work independently, make decisions in an initially standalone function, and operate comfortably in ambiguity.
- Excellent English communication skills.
- Based in Stockholm or willing to relocate.

## Nice-to-haves
- International or multi-entity payroll experience, particularly across the United Kingdom, United States, or EOR arrangements.
- Swedish language skills.
- Experience with equity or share-based compensation payroll and benefit-in-kind taxation.
- Strong interest in AI, automation, and modern payroll systems.

## Compensation
- No compensation information provided.

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