As Head of Payroll, you will help scale and manage the payroll department for a multinational company. This is an ideal role for someone who wants to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and data-driven environment and will report to the Controller.
As a Head of Payroll You Will
- Scale and own full-cycle payroll function
- Manage bi-weekly and semi-monthly payroll for hourly and salaried employees across the US, Canada, Brazil, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and other countries as we launch new markets
- Ensure that all monthly, quarterly, and annual payroll tax filings are met; ensure all local statutory payroll and fringe benefit reporting requirements are met
- Participate in implementing new or modified regional and global core pay related processes to meet long-term employee needs
- Document financial processes and policies to enhance automation and scalability while ensuring accurate, secured, and compliant payroll processing in accordance with GAAP and SOX
- Help with new market setup and manage relationship with external vendors and other benefit providers
- Support various internal and external audits, domestic and international, if needed
- Serve as a strong partner with HR and Equity teams to ensure all processing of payroll data and headcount tracking are accurate.
- Implement tools and systems for the payroll function to scale with the company
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience of payroll process experience
- Familiarity with Payroll Systems such as ADP and Workday
- Helped scale private companies from pre-IPO to IPO
- Ability to think across multiple dimensions of a business and work cross-functionally to deliver results
- You are a team player and love to deliver outstanding results while having a fun time with your teammates doing it!
- You are resourceful and not afraid to roll up your sleeves
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise utmost discretion
- Experience working with Microsoft Excel
About Faire
Faire is an innovative online marketplace that uses machine learning to match local retailers with the makers of products that uniquely fit their stores. We are using the power of technology to connect makers and boutiques from all over the world, building a thriving community of over 200,000 small business owners.
Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling. It’s a way of life that offers people a level of autonomy and fulfillment that’s become difficult to find elsewhere in our economy. Most of our customers have left behind jobs they hated to take a chance on themselves. We want to make sure their boldness and self-belief gets rewarded.
This mission also extends to the way we are building the company. Every member of our team is an owner of the business and taking part in the founding process.
Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.
Additional Information
Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.