Global Payroll Manager

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