Payroll Manager

Our mission is to make world-class software security available to everyone. This means building program analysis tools that are open source, easy to use, powerful, and fast. It also means building a team with security expertise and a passion for great developer experiences. Most of all, it means working with honesty and respect in a diverse community of dreamers and builders. We’ve redefined static analysis tooling by committing to all of these, and turned our project, Semgrep, into an essential safeguard for code at Snowflake, Dropbox, and more.

About Us: 

Our mission is to make world-class software security available to everyone. This means building tools that are open source, easy to use, powerful, and fast. It also means building a team with security expertise and a passion for great developer experiences. Most of all, it means working with honesty and respect in a diverse community. We’ve redefined security tooling by committing to all of these, turning Semgrep into an essential safeguard for code at Slack, One Medical, HashiCorp and more!

About the role

We’re looking for our first Payroll Manager to join our small, but mighty Finance Team. In this role, you will report directly to our Head of Finance and play a crucial part in ensuring smooth payroll operations and compliance at Semgrep. As Semgrep’s Senior Payroll Specialist, you will be responsible for processing payroll, managing payroll taxes, and ensuring all employees are compensated accurately and on time. You will work closely with HR and Finance to ensure payroll processes align with business needs and legal requirements. 

The main areas you will focus on: payroll processing, payroll reporting, and compliance. This role will require you to manage payroll for the US-based and international team members, oversee payroll system integrations, and address any payroll discrepancies. You will thrive in this role if you have strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage sensitive data. You will also play a key role in implementing improvements to payroll processes and ensuring compliance with local, state, federal, and international regulations.

Location expectations:

• Our expectation is that this role will be based in the Bay Area with the ability to come into our San Francisco office 1-2 days a week.

Prior experience in a fast-paced, tech environment is helpful, but we are more interested in your detail-oriented and problem solving skills than your pedigree. So if this opportunity excites you but you don’t meet the exact requirements, apply anyway!

What you’ll do

• Own payroll operations and transactions processing in our payroll system (Rippling), preparing payroll account reconciliations and JEs, and ensuring month end close are completed timely and in compliance with local and federal regulations.
• Create controls, processes, and communications, and ensure each pay cycle, including off-cycle, is processed accurately and timely
• Process associated payroll taxes and payment of employee benefits, including payroll and benefits reconciliations and equity transactions (e.g., ISO, NSO)
• Produce and improve monthly payroll dashboard reporting, as well as ad hoc reports as needed
• Manage Rippling ASO, Rippling Global PEO, and remote.com EoR, and ensure Rippling and remote.com meet local, federal, and international registration requirements for withholding and related compliances
• Partner cross-functionally to optimize and automate our processes, including being a key player in current data feed between payroll system and ERP and future payroll system implementation
• Produce and improve monthly payroll dashboard reporting and ad hoc reports as needed
• Partner with People team for workers comp and employee 401(k)
• Ensure timely and accurate W-2 preparations at year end
• Research and provide best practices opinions regarding payroll practices and payroll tax and benefits compliances

You are ideal for this role if you have

• 6+ years of payroll processing and compliance experience 
• Excellent problem solving skills, strong business judgment, and the ability to communicate risks and suggestions
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality over sensitive information, including employee data
• Experience processing multi-state payroll and managing ASO and EOR services 
• Experience with tax withholdings and processing related to equity transactions (e.g. ISO, NSO, RSU)
• Experience working with tax jurisdictions, workers comp reporting and invoicing
• CPP and/or membership with the American Payroll Association is a huge plus!

Compensation:

• Salary Range: $110,000-$184,000
• Our compensation package includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.
• Please note that the range listed is for someone based in the SF Bay Area.

Our goal is to competitively and fairly compensate every Semgrep employee with a system that equally rewards those who are vocal and those who are less comfortable making demands during the final steps of the hiring process. To that end, we generate internal compensation bands that are used when discussing and negotiating salaries. We update these based on market data to make sure they’re above the average for comparable roles.

We also invest in our employees’ well-being and long term success with comprehensive health plans, generous vacation time, 401k, learning stipends, and more. Our benefits are for everyone, so that you’re taken care of, and we work with individuals to make sure they have what they need, whether that’s quiet work space, adjusted hours, or something else.

Who we are

We have people from France and the Philippines, physics and philosophy, formal methods research and full fledged corporations. We’re new parents and new grads, aspiring authors and aspiring Americans, dog lovers and dogfooders. We get together often to bike, bake, and meet up in parks. In our interactions, we believe respect and honesty go hand in hand, and prioritize both.

Semgrep is an equal-opportunity employer seeking a diverse range of backgrounds. We value who you are — including your cultural heritage, your socioeconomic status, your age, your race, your gender, your sexual orientation, your disabilities. We value what’s vitally important to you — your family, your religion, your politics. We value what you love in this world — your music, your weekend pursuits. We believe in welcoming varied professional backgrounds, educations, and interests. If you’re exceptional in your role, believe in Semgrep’s mission, and treat Semgrep’s values as your own, you belong here.