Watershed Global Payroll Manager at Watershed responsible for end-to-end payroll operations across multiple countries. Build scalable payroll processes and automation while ensuring compliance with tax and statutory requirements.
Responsibilities
As our first dedicated payroll leader, you'll own payroll at Watershed end to end and build the controls, processes, and automation that let us grow headcount and geographies without growing manual work. You'll run payroll for our US and UK entities and oversee in-country payroll in Mexico and through our EOR partners.
This role is hands-on. You’ll run our day-to-day payroll operations while building the processes and automation that let the function scale as we expand. You'll partner closely with People Ops, Accounting, Legal, and Revenue Operations, and you'll be the go-to person for payroll questions across the company.
Build the global payroll function: the documentation, processes, calendars, checklists, SOPs, and controls that let payroll scale with headcount, hire and develop a team as we grow, and lead the payroll side of expanding into new geographies.
Own end-to-end global payroll, including new hires, terminations, salary changes, bonuses, commissions, and leave pay, and act as the escalation point for complex payroll issues and employee pay questions.
Manage our in-country payroll providers and EOR partners across multiple countries, validating inputs and outputs, evaluate the right long-term model for each country, and evaluate payroll tools and providers, recommending what to adopt based on accuracy, cost, and risk.
Own payroll configuration in Rippling and keep payroll data flowing cleanly to the general ledger as we scale, using AI and workflow automation to remove manual work.
Administer deductions and retirement contributions, including 401(k) remittances, and reconcile plan contributions to the plan administrator.
Maintain compliance with payroll taxes, wages, and statutory requirements across the US and the UK, including registrations, filings, year-end reporting, and responses to tax authority notices, and support financial statements, statutory, and 401(k) plan audits with documentation and responses to auditors.
Administer sales commissions and other variable pay with Revenue Operations so plans are paid accurately and on schedule.
Support equity-related payroll processes, including withholding and reporting on exercises and vesting events, in coordination with Legal and Carta.
Partner with Accounting on payroll journal entries, reconciliations, and month-end close, with the goal of bringing payroll accounting into the payroll function over time, and with People Ops on employee lifecycle events (hires, terminations, leaves, and compensation changes) so the data flowing into payroll is accurate.
