strava - Global Senior Payroll Manager
Requirements
• Substantial experience owning global, multi-country payroll end-to-end as a function owner, across multiple entities and currencies. Direct experience with UK, France, Germany, and Ireland payroll alongside US is important. • Experience leading and developing payroll staff, ideally a distributed team across timezones. • Hands-on depth with payroll processing systems, plus experience managing international payroll vendors and running system implementations. • Deep multi-jurisdiction payroll compliance knowledge across the US and EMEA, including payroll tax, statutory filings, and FLSA, with ownership of SOX payroll controls and audit support. • A track record of building SOX-ready payroll controls and processes, not just operating within them. • Experience through a company’s transition to public ownership, including the payroll and equity-compensation implications of an IPO. • A clear understanding of the payroll/GL interface — journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and the close dependency with the GL team. • A measured, data-driven approach to running payroll, with experience building operations reporting from scratch for finance leadership. • Demonstrated, functional use of AI tools (such as Anthropic’s Claude) to make meaningful improvements to payroll efficiency or quality. • Experience taking payroll from a startup operating model to public-company grade, or CPP certification, is a plus. • For more information on benefits, please click here for info on San Francisco benefits https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTkFMPz3eCjd0FgQ28VWnK4d2BEnzGyaSFGwATR-dQdBb9HxZgay6kboqnT0-V-qaBDzSvYIzI76vT5/pub and here for Dublin, Ireland benefits https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRfyeXFRTBGH72fb6cSe5VkQ8IcABP8GEEw_2IMKmKmV4aYvonxCdoWDuxfHUgXt2mX_9Ps0U52tc0R/pub.
Responsibilities
• Own and run Strava’s global payroll function end-to-end across the US and EMEA, ensuring accurate pay, tax withholding, and statutory filings in every jurisdiction where Strava operates. • Lead and develop two Senior Payroll Analysts across San Francisco and France, setting clear expectations and supporting their growth across a significant timezone gap. • Build and own SOX-ready payroll controls, processes, and documentation; partnering with the Assistant Controller on audit support and public-company readiness. • Own the payroll side of equity compensation as Strava moves toward IPO, including RSU vesting, ESPP, and mobility/shadow-payroll implications, in partnership with Legal and Equity. • Partner with the GL team on payroll journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations, ensuring a clean and timely month-end close. • Build strong cross-functional partnerships, working closely with People Operations and Legal teams, and managing external payroll vendors, with the judgment to know when to push and when to take a diplomatic approach to keep relationships and outcomes on track. • Communicate with clarity and impact across the function and up to leadership, synthesizing complex payroll matters into clear recommendations, weekly updates, SOX documentation, and standard operating procedures, and representing payroll confidently in both written and verbal settings. • Run payroll as a measured function: build and deliver regular operations reporting (accuracy, cycle time, exceptions, compliance SLAs) to Controllership and Finance leadership. • Drive process improvement and automation across payroll operations, including practical use of AI tooling to improve efficiency and quality. • Manage international payroll vendors and lead system implementations and optimizations as the function scales.
Benefits
• Dublin, Ireland€140K – €150K • Offers Equity • San Francisco, CA$180K – $190K • Offers Equity • This range reflects base compensation only and does not include equity or benefits. Your recruiter can share more details about the full compensation package during the hiring process. • At Strava, we know our employees are the most important ingredient to our success, and our compensation and total rewards programs reflect that. We take a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on the department and your location. Salary ranges are categorized into one of three zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. We will determine the candidate’s starting pay based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. We may modify these ranges in the future. • For more information, please contact your talent partner. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • LinkedIn Profile • Strava Candidate Privacy Notice. This notice is not a contract, express or implied, and it does not set terms or conditions of employment. • Strava Candidate Privacy Notice • Non-binary / third gender (Inclusive of bigender, agender, androgynous, gender fluid, gender non-conforming) • I don’t wish to answer • I prefer to self-describe • Alaskan Native / American Indian / Indigenous American / Native American • Black / Of African descent • East Asian (inclusive of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Taiwanese) • Pacific Islander • South Asian (inclusive of Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Indian, Nepali, Pakistani, and Sri Lankan) • Southeast Asian (inclusive of Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Mien, Singaporean, Thai, and Vietnamese) • They/Them/Theirs • I don't wish to answer
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