Senior Payroll Accountant, HiBob
$125-150k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
A modern HR platform powering productivity, engagement, and retention
Posted today
A modern HR platform powering productivity, engagement, and retention
1001+ employees
Posted today
$125-150k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a modern work experience that empowers organisations to be remarkable.
Role
Who you are
- This role is designed for a professional who understands that payroll is a critical accounting function requiring robust controls and scalability
- The ideal candidate is not only a technical expert in enterprise payroll platforms and multi-state taxation but is also a cooperative and highly responsive partner to our employees, ensuring the "human side" of payroll is never lost in the data
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field is strongly preferred
- Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience in U.S. payroll with a focus on payroll accounting and multi-state compliance
- Technical Mastery: Extensive hands-on experience with payroll enterprise platforms (e.g. ADP Workforce Now, TriNet) (required) and modern HRIS platforms (e.g., Bob)
- ERP & Financial Systems Expertise: Strong experience working with ERP/accounting systems is required, preferably NetSuite, including payroll-to-GL reconciliations, journal entries, and financial reporting support
- Accounting Fluency: Deep understanding of journal entries, labor allocations, and balance sheet reconciliations. NetSuite knowledge Required
- Communication: Exceptional "soft skills" with a proven track record of being cooperative and helpful in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
- Financial Integrity: A "Controller mindset" regarding payroll accuracy and internal audit standards
- Scalability Mindset: The ability to build processes today that will still work when the company is 2x or 3x its current size
- Employee Advocacy: A commitment to excellence in the employee experience, ensuring payroll is a source of trust within the organization
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Payroll Accountant to own the end-to-end U.S. and Canada payroll lifecycle with a heavy focus on financial accuracy and process excellence
- Full-Cycle Ownership: Drive the execution of end-to-end U.S. and Canada payroll processing for a multi-state and multinational workforce
- GL Mapping & Reconciliation: Own the payroll-to-General Ledger (GL) mapping process. Perform monthly reconciliations of payroll accounts, including taxes, benefits, and 401(k) contributions
- Month-End Close: Partner with the Finance team to manage payroll accruals, reclassifications, and journal entries to ensure a seamless month-end and year-end close
- Tax & Agency Management: Act as the lead for all state agency registrations, notices, and audits, ensuring the company remains in good standing across all jurisdictions
- Equity Payroll Administration: Process and oversee payroll implications related to RSUs, stock option exercises, equity vesting events, and supplemental wage taxation in partnership with Finance and Equity teams
- Control Framework: Establish and maintain "best-in-class" internal controls and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to mitigate risk and ensure 100% data integrity
- Process Architecture: Evaluate current workflows to identify bottlenecks; design and implement automated, scalable solutions that can support rapid organizational growth
- Audit Readiness: Serve as the primary lead for payroll-related financial audits (Workers Comp, 401k, Year-end), providing organized documentation and clear narratives for all payroll-related accounting implications
- Proactive Responsiveness: Act as a dedicated resource for employee inquiries, providing timely, empathetic, and clear explanations regarding pay, taxes, and deductions
- Global Support: Provide support and accounting oversight for international payroll operations and vendors as needed
Our take
Developing and maintaining talent is a big challenge for companies that are scaling quickly. Hibob are trying to be one of the solutions.
There are an increasing number of startups attracting huge amounts of investment and being pushed to scale their business fast, meaning the customer base for Hibob's services, whilst already large, is growing.
Hibob has attracted high-profile customers like Fulham FC, eToro, and Receipt Bank, which gives them great credibility for selling to other companies.
Hibob's acquisition of Cassiopeia - a Workplace Relationships Analytics Startup, will afford companies better insights to improve team communications and support flexible work models. Together, they wish to offer thousands of companies the tools they need to maximize the employee experience in our increasingly digital world.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2024
$150m
SERIES E
Sep 2023
$150m
LATE VC
Total funding: $715m
Company benefits
- Company share options plan
- Flexible hybrid working model
- Work from home allowance: to get your home office set up how you like it
- Volunteering days: Two days each year to support your community
- Employee referral program paying up to $2,500 for each successful referral
- Work from anywhere: Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to two months (after six months of employment)
- Fun company and team social events (locally and virtually with our global teams)
- Bob Balance Days: A company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter (four additional days of leave)
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Pension scheme or savings plan
- Birthday day off: Take the day off and receive a special gift
- Headspace subscription to help look after your mental health
- Private health coverage
Company values
- Bring me, win as we: When we come together as a global team, we can build something trailblazing. Every Bobber can show up as their authentic self, strengthening the connections in our village and having an exponential impact.
- Build the exceptional: Everyone contributes to building the exceptional at HiBob. We are leading the way in what a functional, flexible, and fun HR platform and mindset looks like.
- We do what we say: We are intentional and take pride in aligning our actions with our words. We deliver today on the promises we made yesterday. We actively use our product and seek to drive best practices.
- Trust and empower each other: Bobbers shine when those around them shine, too. We hire smart people who have the freedom to do their jobs in the best possible way.
- Interact with transparency and openness: Information is a resource to be shared, not a resource to be guarded.
- Grow through what we go through: We need to be agile and adapt. With every challenge and experience we go through, we learn, improve, and remain resilient.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Israel David
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously SVP of Technology at Kenshoo, VP of IT Business Management at VMware, and VP/GM at 48Upper.
Ronni Zehavi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Team8 and Cotendo. He also spent two years at Akamai Technologies as a Senior VP and GM of the Security Division.
People progressing
Joined HiBob in 2021 as SMB Customer Success Manager and grown to lead the Global SMB Account Manager team in the Customer Growth division, driving scalable growth and success with global customers.
Joined the CX team in 2018 and helped build the SMB CSM team as one of its first members. Has progressed through leadership roles and is now Head of SMB Customer Success, driving adoption & retention.
Joined as a Customer Success Manager in 2022 before moving to our Sales Engineering team after 18 months. Has since been promoted to Senior Sales Engineer, supporting our Partnerships team.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at HiBob
- Our success depends on our people, and we want HiBob to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive. To achieve this, we are committed to being proactive at all levels, ensuring that our workforce reflects the communities in which we live, work, and hire. We are open to all talent. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class* (*US only).
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