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Irvine, California, United States
Onsite
FieldAI is looking for a Global Payroll Manager to join our growing finance team. You’ll own payroll end to end for a global, distributed workforce across UCAN, APAC, and EMEA, including a sizable population of contractors and temporary workers. This is a builder role - you’ll be establishing policies, identifying gaps and creating processes to close them, and helping us scale payroll as we expand into new countries.
You’ll report to the Controller and work closely with People Ops, Legal, and all teams across the organization.
Global Payroll
Own accurate, on-time payroll for all employees across UCAN, APAC, and EMEA, whether run in-house, through in-country providers, or via Employer of Record (EOR) partners
Manage the global payroll calendar, inputs, and approvals across multiple pay frequencies and currencies
Own payroll tax withholding, filings, and remittances, including registrations as we enter new countries and states
Manage year-end reporting in every jurisdiction (W-2, T4, P60, and local equivalents)
Contingent Workforce
Own the payment process for contractors and temps - onboarding, invoicing, approvals, and payment runs
Partner with People Ops and Legal on worker classification and misclassification risk (ABC test, IR35, and local equivalents)
Manage staffing agency and EOR relationships, reconciling invoices to timesheets and contracted rates
Own 1099 and other non-employee tax reporting
Systems & Processes
Keep BambooHR as the source of truth for employee data, ensuring compensation and job changes flow cleanly into payroll
Own integrations between BambooHR, payroll providers, benefits carriers, and NetSuite
Identify and close payroll process gaps, building scalable policies and controls from scratch where they don’t yet exist
Prepare payroll journal entries and accruals for month-end close and reconcile payroll liability accounts
Team
Be the go-to resource for employee payroll questions across all time zones
Partner with People Ops on onboarding, offboarding, leave, relocations, and international transfers
Act as a key finance partner to leadership on the payroll and tax implications of hiring in new countries
8+ years of progressive payroll experience, including 2-3 years managing multi-country payroll, with meaningful time spent in a startup environment
Hands-on payroll experience across UCAN, APAC, and EMEA
Direct experience paying contractors and temporary workers at scale, with working knowledge of classification risk
Experience with BambooHR - data management, reporting, and payroll integrations
Demonstrated track record of building and improving processes, not just executing inherited ones
Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate payroll and tax complexity into plain language for employees and leadership
Familiarity with BambooHR and TriNet
CPP or FPC (PayrollOrg), CPM (Canada), or CIPP (UK) certification
Experience with global payroll platforms such as Deel, Rippling, Papaya Global, or ADP Global
Experience with equity payroll events (option exercises, etc.) across jurisdictions
Background in a Series A-C companies - you know what it means to be the first to formalize a process
