[Hiring] Manager, Managed Payroll and Compliance @rise

Role Description

As Manager of Managed Payroll and Compliance, you'll run our fully managed payroll service day to day and keep client compliance tight across the Rise platform. You'll lead a team of payroll specialists who process and safeguard client payrolls, and you'll be the person who works out how Rise applies payroll and regulatory requirements when a client's situation doesn't match the rulebook.

• Run the fully managed payroll team day to day, owning accuracy and timeliness for every client payroll Rise processes on their behalf.
• Keep clients onside with payroll and regulatory requirements, and run the controls that catch problems before a client feels them.
• Handle escalations for the complex payroll and compliance questions that don't have a textbook answer.
• Tighten the processes and quality checks that let managed payroll take on more clients without losing accuracy.
• Coach the payroll specialists on your team and help them grow into more complex work.
• Work with the onboarding and support teams so a client moving between them never has to explain their payroll twice.
• Bring what your team sees on the front line back to Product and Engineering so the platform handles it next time.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in payroll, including running full-cycle Canadian payroll for multiple companies or one large, complex one.
• Experience leading or mentoring a payroll team.
• Strong knowledge of Canadian payroll legislation and compliance across provinces.
• A payroll designation such as PLP or PCP, or equivalent experience.
• Good operational instincts: you work from repeatable processes.
• Clear communicator who can explain a compliance position to a client, an executive, or a new team member.
• Comfortable working across functions, including Client Experience, Product, and Engineering.
• A degree in a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• Bonus: Bilingual proficiency in French and English.
• Bonus: Experience with a managed or outsourced payroll service.

Benefits

• Base salary of $70,000-90,000, depending on experience, plus a bonus and stock options.
• Remote work environment with occasional in-person meetings.
• 3 weeks of paid vacation, flexible personal wellness days, and one day off for your birthday and work anniversary.
• Personal $1,000 learning and development budget for courses, conferences, webinars, etc.
• No-wait benefits starting from your first day, including dental, eye care, and $2,000 in counselling coverage.