Lead and professionalize global payroll operations for a fully remote organization with team members in over 35 countries. As the Payroll Operations Manager, you will oversee the complete payroll lifecycle, ensuring timely, accurate, and audit-ready disbursements across diverse worker types, currencies, and platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end payroll processing across bi-monthly and monthly cycles, including employee and contractor payments
- Coordinate payroll submissions using platforms such as Wise, Payoneer, Deel, and Gusto, ensuring correct data formatting and compliance
- Develop and maintain structured payroll calendars with clear deadlines and stakeholder responsibilities
- Reconcile payments post-disbursement and verify funding accuracy across all financial systems
- Design validation checkpoints to catch errors and prevent missed inputs before processing
- Strengthen controls between HR and Finance for onboarding, offboarding, salary changes, bonuses, commissions, and reimbursements
- Improve data consistency between BambooHR and payroll models
- Create, maintain, and document standardized operating procedures to reduce risk and ensure consistency
- Handle payroll for multiple worker classifications across global jurisdictions
- Verify exchange rates and ensure accurate currency conversions
- Own the full cycle of commission and bonus calculations, validating inputs with Sales and department leads
- Produce reconciliation reports, accrual schedules, and audit-ready documentation
- Align payroll outputs with department budgets and support post-payroll financial reporting
- Investigate discrepancies and resolve variances efficiently
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of payroll experience, with proven success managing payroll for 100+ people
- Direct experience with multi-country, multi-currency environments and international compliance
- Background in manual or semi-automated payroll systems with strong reconciliation and internal control practices
- Advanced skills in Google Sheets or Excel for modeling and data management
- Strong communication abilities across cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated attention to detail, operational discipline, and process improvement mindset
- Experience working in remote, distributed teams
Preferred Background
- Experience scaling payroll in fast-growing organizations
- Exposure to payroll system implementations
- Background in multi-entity or post-acquisition environments
- Industry experience in SaaS or technology
Work Environment
This is a 100% remote, async-first role. We operate globally and value clear, written communication. You’ll join a mission-driven team focused on redefining how work is measured and managed. Our culture emphasizes trust, performance, inclusion, and data-informed decisions.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Generous paid time off (30+ days annually)
- Flexible, asynchronous work model
- Supportive, high-performing team environment
- Strong product-market fit with growing global adoption
Equal Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
