Senior Payroll Analyst, Dialpad
$110.5-139.8k
Salary applicable to California - may vary in other locations
Office located in San Ramon, US
AI-powered cloud communications platform
Posted today
AI-powered cloud communications platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
$110.5-139.8k
Salary applicable to California - may vary in other locations
Office located in San Ramon, US
1001+ employees
Company mission
To completely transform the way the world works together.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of direct payroll experience processing US multi-state and Canadian payroll
- HRIS experience required, with Workday preferred
- Experience with accounting, tax, and finance concepts relating to payroll
- Proficiency with MS Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs), MS Word, and Google Sheets
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work with internal and external parties while maintaining a high level of customer service
- Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to handle workload fluctuations and multiple requests
- Ability to work independently and as part of a larger team in a fast-paced, dynamic, multi-priority environment while maintaining firm deadlines
- Knowledge and mindset for automation and process improvements for scalability
- NetSuite experience preferred
- Experience with stock-payroll transactions preferred
- Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role and possess the fundamental traits, drive, and strong ambition we seek, but your experience doesn’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply
What the job involves
- As a Sr. Payroll Analyst, you’ll own end-to-end US and international payroll processing, reconciliations, and GL accounting
- You’ll partner closely with third-party vendors, People Operations, Finance, and Treasury to streamline cross-functional payroll workflows and resolve complex issues
- You’ll also help create robust payroll journal entries and GL reconciliations to ensure accurate financial reporting and resolve variances
- In addition, you’ll help bring continuous process improvements, seamless system integrations, and multi-country tax and regulatory compliance to our expanding global operations
- This position reports to our Sr. Manager, Global Payroll, and has the opportunity to be based in our Austin, Tempe, or San Ramon office
- Process, prepare, and reconcile US and international payroll, including variable compensation, off-cycle payroll, terminations, and ad-hoc payments as needed
- Work with third-party vendors (e.g., Workday, Crowe) to create payroll cases and process off-cycle adjustments as necessary
- Process benefits contributions (e.g., HSA, DSA, FSA, commuter), monitor for changes, and reconcile data to ensure benefits statements align with payroll deductions
- Monitor Time & Attendance timesheets and processing for non-exempt employees, ensuring accuracy and policy compliance for US, Canada, UK, and Switzerland employees
- Assist with other international payrolls as needed
- Prepare and record payroll-related journal entries to the general ledger, ensuring accurate departmental coding and period-end accruals
- Perform monthly reconciliations of payroll-related GL accounts, identifying and resolving any variances between the payroll system and the financial records
- Register new State/SUI/Local payroll tax and enter new tax jurisdictions into payroll systems
- Assist with external audits (e.g., year-end financial audit, 401(k), workers’ compensation) by providing supporting records and documentation
- Assist with year-end W-2 reconciliation and reporting
- Keep informed of federal, state, and local compensation laws and regulations to ensure company compliance
- Directly assist employees and managers with payroll-related education, questions, or issues
- Resolve payroll issues independently through research, analysis, knowledge of best practices, and proposal of reasonable solutions
- Support system integrations between the People and payroll systems to ensure accurate and complete data
- Partner with People Operations, Finance, Treasury, and other departments on ongoing process improvements
- Maintain organized and detailed payroll records, ensuring all payroll data and changes are accurately and completely reflected in the payroll system
Our take
Dialpad offers an AI-driven cloud communications platform for business teams. It was founded to streamline communications across entire businesses with a fast set-up and hassle-free deployment.
As well as hosting in-house video, meet and text communications with automated note-taking and transcription, the platform also features AI-powered customer service, sales and voice intelligence insights. Dialpad has impressed customers such as Asana, Stripe, TED and Uber with its smooth integration capabilities with co-working platforms like Slack, Google Workspace, Salesforce CRM and Microsoft Teams.
The Unicorn company's funding has been heavily invested in the continued R&D of AI technologies, delivering numerous industry-first features. Dialpad has also expanded globally, opening offices in Europe and Asia and extending its global footprint via additional investments internationally. In 2026, it released its Agentic AI platform, which will help businesses to tailor and fine-tune their agentic AI capabilities, indicating that its doubling down on this sector of its business.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Dec 2022
$50m
LATE VC
Dec 2021
$170m
LATE VC
Total funding: $450m
Company benefits
- Company stock options
- Continued education stipend
- Cell phone, home internet, and gym membership stipend
- Work from home opportunities
- 100% paid medical, dental, and vision plan
- Catered lunches, free snacks & drinks
Company HQ
San Ramon, CA
Leadership
Craig Walker
(Founder & CEO)Having studied Law at UCB, Craig worked as an Attorney for Brobeck Phleger & Harrison, before moving to General Counsel at TeleSoft Partners. He spent almost 4 years at Google Ventures before founding Dialpad in January 2011.
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