Global Payroll Specialist

About the role

Niural is a modern global payroll platform offering US Payroll, US PEO, Global EOR, Global Payroll, and Global Contractor management. We provide a net new experience for clients with an AI-powered platform and a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented work environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Process end-to-end payroll for employees across our global footprint, including gross-to-net calculations, statutory deductions, benefits, bonuses, equity events, and off-cycle payments.
• Independently run full payroll cycles across multiple countries, validating and auditing calculations.
• Manage country-specific statutory contributions, income tax withholdings, social security, pension, and other mandatory filings in accordance with local regulations.
• Reconcile payroll outputs against GL, funding files, and bank reports; investigate and resolve variances at the calculation level.
• Review, validate, and challenge in-country provider (ICP) outputs where applicable, catching errors before they reach employees.
• Manage new country launches, including setting up payroll calendars, statutory accounts, registrations, and payroll parameters.
• Process new hires, terminations, leavers, transfers, and salary changes across jurisdictions, ensuring compliance with local notice periods, severance rules, and final pay requirements.
• Handle multi-country year-end activities, including tax year-end reporting, statutory forms and reconciliations.
• Maintain compliance with data privacy regulations (GDPR, local equivalents) and internal SOX or audit controls.
• Partner with internal teams (payroll operations, treasury, accounting, benefits, engineering, and implementation) to resolve issues, improve workflows, and feed real-world payroll requirements into product development.
• Audit monthly client payroll invoices and funding requests for accuracy.
• Monitor global payroll deadlines, cutoffs, and statutory filing dates across time zones.
• Maintain accurate payroll records and documentation in line with country-specific retention requirements.
• Support employees with payslip explanations, tax queries, and country-specific payroll questions.
• Contribute to internal knowledge bases, country playbooks, and SOPs based on hands-on processing experience.
• Aid with special projects, including system migrations, ICP transitions, parallel runs, and acquisition integrations.

About You

• You have personally processed payroll, start to finish, in multiple countries and can speak to the nuances of each.
• You can read a payslip in a country you've worked with and immediately spot when something is wrong.
• You understand statutory mechanics (not just deadlines) and can explain why a calculation came out the way it did.
• You're comfortable challenging ICPs when their numbers don't add up, rather than accepting outputs at face value.
• You're detail-oriented, numerate, and take pride in reconciliation work.
• You can juggle multiple country cycles, cutoffs, and time zones in a fast-paced environment.
• You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• You're curious about payroll mechanics in countries you haven't yet worked in and pick them up quickly.

Requirements

• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on global payroll processing experience, with direct ownership of payroll cycles in at least three countries as a baseline (e.g., UK, Greece, Germany, India, Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Mexico, France, Spain, Ireland, or similar).
• Demonstrated ability to process payroll directly including gross-to-net calculations, statutory contributions, and filings not just coordinate with ICPs.
• Strong understanding of country-specific tax regimes, social security systems, and statutory reporting requirements in the countries you've supported.
• Experience auditing and reconciling payroll outputs, including identifying ICP errors and driving corrections.
• Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, reconciliation formulas).
• GPMI CPP, CIPP (UK), or equivalent payroll certification preferred.
• Excellent attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to work to tight deadlines across time zones.

Nice to Have

• Experience launching payroll in a new country.
• Experience transitioning payroll between ICPs or from in-house to outsourced (or vice versa).
• Working knowledge of equity payroll events (RSUs, ISOs, ESPP) across jurisdictions.
• Additional language skills relevant to supported regions.

Compensation Range

$60K - $85K