Associate Manager of Global Payroll, KAYAK
$105-115k
+ This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Travel search engine
Open for applications
Travel search engine
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$105-115k
+ This role is eligible to be considered for an annual bonus
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions.
Role
Who you are
- A minimum of 6 years of recent hands-on payroll experience with multi-national payrolls
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or business administration preferred
- A professional payroll certification is preferred
- Experience leading or managing a team
- Experience with CloudPay and ADP would be ideal
- StrongExcel skills (e.g. pivot tables, VLOOKUP, data analysis) and comfort working with large data sets
- Ability to create and analyze ad hoc reports using payroll systems and spreadsheet tools
- Solid understanding of payroll tax regulations and compliance requirements
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills with a track record of meeting deadlines
- Clear, concise communication skills — both written and verbal — and a collaborative approach to working across teams
- Commitment to data confidentiality and professional integrity
- A dedicated, adaptable mindset with a creative and practical approach to problem-solving
- Familiarity with payroll platforms such as CloudPay, ADP, or similar systems
What the job involves
- KAYAK's Global Payroll team makes sure every employee around the world is paid accurately and on time — and we're growing! We're looking for an Associate Manager, Global Payroll to join our team, reporting to our Senior Manager, Global Payroll
- You'll help strengthen and improve how we run payroll across multiple countries, collaborate with teammates in Finance, People Operations, and Legal, and lead a supportive, high-performing payroll team
- This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys both the details of payroll operations and the people side of team leadership — and who wants to grow their career at a company that values curiosity, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Ensure employees across multiple countries and pay frequencies are paid accurately and on time
- Oversee day to day payroll processing operations
- Calculate and report tax liabilities, including periodic, quarterly, annual, and ad hoc reconciliations; validate payroll tax reporting and related activities, including year-end forms
- Manage payroll tax reporting system processes
- Coordinate with external payroll vendors to ensure strong service delivery and accuracy
- Respond to and resolve employee and stakeholder queries through the team’s ticketing system
- Researching evolving law and regulations regarding taxes and payroll withholding procedures
- Prepare reports and analyses for senior leadership as needed
- Serve as the primary contact for payroll tax notices and regulatory payroll audits
- Ensure correct taxation of payroll & benefits
- Collaborate closely with Finance, People Ops, Legal and FP&A teams - as well as Booking Holdings Payroll Team - to ensure accuracy and alignment across the organization
- Lead, develop, and support our growing Payroll Team, fostering a professional, inclusive, and supportive environment
- Contribute to ad-hoc projects and advise leadership on tax-related matters
Our take
KAYAK is a travel agency and metasearch engine owned and operated by Booking Holdings. KAYAK processes over 6 billion queries across its platforms each year for travel information - as one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travellers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. It offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast.
There’s been speculation over the years about online travel companies getting into the hotel business, and KAYAK is no exception. The company is expanding its hospitality offerings beyond its traditional hotel referral and booking services, but despite speculation through the 2020s, has stopped short of opening hotels under its own brand, preferring to partner with preexisting companies on their hotel tech.
Since being acquired by Booking Holdings, the global leader in online travel, in 2013, KAYAK has continued to expand and innovate, enhancing the travel experience for users all around the world. And now KAYAK manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. With the aim to make it easier for everyone to experience the world - it now operates sites in more than 70 countries and territories.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Work flexibly: Our global flexible work policy lets our teams decide if they head into one of our offices or work from anywhere else
- Team-wide time off: Most of our team disconnects at the same time each year to recharge and reconnect
- Global volunteer week: Take VTO (Volunteer Time Off) to support the organizations and charitable efforts you believe in
- Wellness: We take care of each other - providing opportunities and spaces to live that work-life balance
- Resource groups: Our five ERGs are employee-led groups for underrepresented communities and their allies
- Career growth: We provide opportunities for our team to develop their skills – or learn new ones – on their own terms
Company HQ
East Side of Stamford, Stamford, CT
Leadership
Steve Hafner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Board Member of Trulia, Blade and SeatGeek and currently an Executive at OpenTable.
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