We believe everyone should be able to participate and thrive in the economy. So we’re building tools that make commerce easier and more accessible to all. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. Our new reader helps our sellers accept chip cards and NFC payments, and our Cash app lets people pay each other back instantly. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Let’s shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. We’re here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business—and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.

The Global Payroll Lead is a new leadership opportunity within a highly respected and sought after finance and accounting management team.  This role will set the strategic direction for Square’s payroll team for our US and international expansion. The Global Payroll Lead will ensure the processes are compliant, scalable, efficient, and measured.  This position requires strong operational, communication, and management skills.

You will:

• Inspire leadership in your immediate team that oversees Payroll, providing mentoring and coaching opportunities with a strong investment of development in their careers.

• Ensure the team are properly trained and provide leadership to enhance performance, quality and productivity, as well as create a strong bench for succession planning.

• Direct the third party international payroll vendors to ensure accuracy and compliance with the payroll processing including complex payroll issues such as global mobility and equity.

• Ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll globally in accordance with defined global policies and procedures along with all legislative compliance requirements

• Oversee the timely preparation, processing, maintenance and appropriate distribution of payroll information, payroll reports, all tax year end reports, payroll reconciliations as needed.

• Be responsible for properly coding payroll, taxes and stocks to ensure expenses, cash, tax payments, stock reports, etc. are reconciled to payroll subledger/system

• Ensure compliance with internal policies and controls, SOX as well as compliance with external laws and regulatory guidance

• Develop and implement best practices, key performance indicators and SLA metrics for the department and publish them monthly to cross-functional partners and the leadership team.

• Set performance / productivity targets and execute against them with a thoughtful plan.

• Ensure payroll issues are escalated and resolved with root cause analysis and corrective action for all levels of employees and management, with a focus on ensuring a positive and seamless employee experience in partnership with Legal and the People teams.

• Design and build broader integration between Workday HRIS, ADP Payroll, and Equity Edge Online to ensure data integrity.

• Maintains confidentiality of any payroll, PII and any proprietary information and ensures payroll information is secure.

• Collaborate with the People, Equity and Business Systems teams to identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives including automation of equity transactions, journal entries and reporting requirements.

You have:

• BA / BS degree or equivalent and CPP required

• 20+ years of payroll experience and knowledgeable of all aspects of payroll compliance in complex global enterprises

• Motivated and proactive, results-orientated individual capable of partnering with diverse perspectives and backgrounds to negotiate positive outcomes that impact the work of internal, external and cross functional partners

• Experience transforming a payroll function to maximize automation, scalability and cost effectiveness required

• Strong project management experience, to include the ability to manage project plans, dependencies, critical path activities and milestones is required

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to confidently present complex information to all levels of the organization as required

• Experience setting up payroll requirements for new international entities

• Expertize with federal, state, local statutory and worker's compensation payroll audits

• Expertize with Accounting processes and month-end close

• Ability to work in fast-paced environment and meet deadlines without sacrificing quality

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and influence change to remove barriers that affect performance

• Strong service orientation and willingness to learn

• Working knowledge of ADP Workforce Now, Workday and Oracle Financials

• Experience in building a high functioning team and with at least 8 years in a supervisory role and managing a team

At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.