Global Payroll Manager
Description
Sprout Social is looking to hire a Global Payroll Manager to the Finance team.
Why join Sprout’s Finance team?
As a member of Sprout’s finance team, you’ll help better position Sprout for future growth while maintaining compliance and integrity at the highest level. No matter your role, everyone on the team has the opportunity to be a part of creating best-in-class processes and practices that can scale with the organization. Our team is unique because we value transparency and direct ownership of responsibilities—meaning, you’ll always have our trust to help contribute to our overall goals and success as a department and organization.
What you’ll do
- Process global monthly & semi-monthly payrolls for 6 countries
- Implement new payroll vendors to bring global processing in-house
- Create SOPs for each global payroll process
- Maintain compliance and research for global payroll/ tax
- Educate internal stakeholders and global employees on rules/ laws that impact them
What you’ll bring
Sprout Social is looking for a Global Payroll Manager who is collaborative, detail-oriented, and analytical, with a proven ability to partner cross-functionally with stakeholders and handle sensitive and confidential data. You have previous experience implementing a payroll software/vendor for a country (beyond the U.S.), building payroll processes for a new country from the ground-up, and have successfully managed end-of-year processes and documentation for multiple countries. You have demonstrated experience improving upon and creating efficient and scalable processes, are motivated to find the why, and are team-oriented.
The minimum qualifications for this role include:
- 8+ years of global payroll processing experience for 5+ countries
- High-volume end-to-end payroll experience (domestic or global)
- Demonstrated success leading projects end-to-end and building processes from the ground up
- Advanced Excel skills
Preferred qualifications for this role include:
- Experience reporting RSU income internationally
- Experience with Workday, particularly integrating into Workday from 3rd party payroll + reporting
- Experience working with Ireland, Philippines, Canada, Australia, Singapore, and U.K. payroll
How you’ll grow
Within 1 month, you’ll plant your roots, including:
- Experiencing Sprout’s in-depth onboarding, covering everything from our company mission and values, hearing directly from executives and founders to deep training on our products and the value that Sprout delivers to our customers
- Making a plan with your manager to set initial priorities, aligning on expectations for your role, planting goalposts for your career, and learning about Sprout’s approach to global payroll
- Connecting with appropriate teams to gain access to systems, shared drives, etc.
- Shadowing global payroll for all countries
- Shadowing domestic payroll for understanding
Within 3 months, you’ll start hitting your stride by:
- Meeting with all internal stakeholders
- Creating SOPs for global payroll(s)
- Fully taking over submitting payroll for our APAC and EMEA regions
- Beginning to respond to international inquiries in the payroll service desk
- Having a strong understanding of Sprout payroll and HRIS systems, with the ability to independently navigate them
Within 6 months, you’ll be making a clear impact through:
- Implementing a new system of pay for one country
- Fully understanding compliance-related requirements for this role and ensuring all aspects are met
- Communicating processes and playing a key role in the development of new controls as needed
Within 12 months, you’ll make this role your own by:
- Helping prepare and audit year-end documents
- Leading plan preparations to optimize global payroll country-by-country
- Being recognized as the Sprout go-to person for all things global payroll
Of course, what is outlined above is the ideal timeline, but things may shift based on business needs and other projects and tasks could be added at the discretion of your manager.
Our Benefits Program
We’re proud to regularly be recognized for our team, product and culture. Our benefits program includes:
- Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
- Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
- High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
- Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
- Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and employee-led diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
- Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
- Beautiful, convenient and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting
Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter.
The base pay range for this role is $100,000.00 to $135,000.00 USD annually. Individual base pay is based on various factors, including relevant experience and skills, the responsibility of the role, and job duties/requirements. In addition to base pay, some Sales and Success roles can earn sales incentives.
Sprout’s compensation ranges are intentionally broad to allow for our team members' growth within their role. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach; we used data from trusted third-party compensation sources to set equitable, consistent and competitive ranges. We also evaluate compensation bi-annually, identify any changes in the market and make adjustments to our ranges and existing employee compensation as needed.
Base pay is only one element of an employee's total compensation at Sprout. Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan. Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance, and Modern Health (a wellness benefit). Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan, in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution. Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays. We have outlined the various components to an employee’s full compensation package here to help you to understand our total rewards package.
Sprout Social is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate based on identity- race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex (including sexual identity), age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status, unfavorable discharge from military service, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, citizenship status, arrest record or expunged or sealed convictions, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our latest DEI Report.
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at accommodations@sproutsocial.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. We'll do all we can to ensure you're set up for success during our interview process while upholding your privacy, including requests for accommodation. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please click here (1) Equal Opportunity Employment Poster (2) Sprout Social's Affirmative Action Statement (3) Pay Transparency Statement.
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