Director of Payroll Operations

4 days ago


Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Duolingo Full time
Job Title: Director of Payroll

At Duolingo, we're on a mission to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available. As a key member of our team, you'll play a critical role in ensuring that our payroll operations are timely, accurate, and compliant.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead payroll strategy and operations to ensure timely and accurate execution of payrolls, filings, reports, and audits.
  • Provide experienced guidance on establishing, evaluating, updating, and scaling processes and controls in conjunction with regulatory, business, and/or system updates.
  • Collaborate with key partners to ensure the payroll operation serves their needs and vice versa.
  • Develop and execute decision-making and organizational change plans when identifying a need to improve part of the payroll operation.
  • Establish a fail-proof system of controls, guardrails, and reporting to ensure that all payroll processes and integrations are accurate and compliant.
  • Collaborate across the Finance, Accounting, and Legal teams to fulfill all vital compliance, auditing, and reporting requirements.
  • Foster relationships internally and externally to ensure a diversity of knowledge and resources are considered to develop our payroll operations.
Requirements:
  • Minimum of 7+ years of experience in payroll for a multi-state and global company, including management experience and experience in a public company with equity.
  • Detail-orientation, organizational, and project management skills that ensure accuracy, efficiency, and compliance are optimized and objectives are created and met.
  • Proficient with Workday and related payroll, HRIS, and financial systems.
  • Experience implementing payroll systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) certification.
  • Workday Certified Payroll Expert.
  • Experience implementing relevant systems and processes to serve a fast-growing start-up environment.
  • Experience bringing organization to teams and streamlining processes within organizations.
  • Experience working with 3rd Party Managed Payroll Service providers.


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