Description:

About Rippling:

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the worlds top investorsincluding Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrockand was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

NOTE:

This role follows the EMEA time zone schedule: 3:00 PM to 12:00 AM IST.

It is a hybrid position, and we expect you to work from our Bangalore office three days a week.

About the Role:

We are seeking a seasoned and strategic Global Payroll Manager to lead our payroll support team across the diverse and dynamic Asia-Pacific and EMEA regions. The ideal candidate is a proactive leader with extensive experience managing multi-country payroll, a deep understanding of international compliance, and a passion for process excellence.

What You Will Do:

- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of regional payroll specialists and leads, fostering a culture of accuracy, accountability, and continuous improvement.

- Oversee the end-to-end payroll processing for all countries within the APAC, EMEA regions, ensuring payroll is executed flawlessly and on schedule every cycle.

- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Develop and maintain robust payroll policies, procedures, and internal controls to support our global growth.

- Drive product improvements by converting complex regional payroll needs into actionable requirements for Engineering. Validate new features to ensure accuracy and compliance across APAC and EMEA

- Build and scale the global support organization for our emerging product suites across HR, IT, and Finance

Required Qualifications:

- 8-10 years of progressive experience in international payroll, with a strong focus on multi-country operations.

- 5 years of direct people management experience, leading and developing payroll teams.

- Demonstrated experience managing payroll operations across a significant number of countries in both the APAC and EMEA regions.

- Strong understanding of payroll accounting, internal controls, and global compliance principles.

- Proven experience in managing and negotiating with third-party payroll vendors.

- Excellent project management, problem-solving, and communication skills.

- Experience working with major HRIS and payroll platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Deep expertise in jurisdictions with highly structured and complex payroll systems. We strongly prefer candidates with hands-on experience in at least one major APAC country (e.g., Australia, Singapore) and one major EMEA country (e.g., UK, Germany, France), as this demonstrates an ability to navigate sophisticated regulatory environments.

- Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth technology or multinational corporation.

- Relevant professional certifications (e.g., CIPP, CPP) are highly regarded.