Global Payroll Manager
fal is an active generative-media AI platform for developers, providing optimized model APIs, serverless deployment, and GPU compute.
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About fal
Founded in 2021 by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, fal provides infrastructure for production generative-media applications, including image, video, audio, 3D, and multimodal models.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own end-to-end payroll for US employees and contractors, global employees through Employers of Record, and international contractors. You will run accurate, on-time payroll cycles in Rippling, administer variable compensation, maintain compliance, reconcile payroll accounting, and build scalable controls, documentation, and processes.
Requirements
- 4+ years of progressive payroll experience, including full ownership of multi-state US payroll
- Rippling payroll administration experience for US and global payroll
- Hands-on global payroll experience through Employers of Record
- Experience paying US and international contractors, including 1099s, W-8BENs, and classification
- Experience with complex California hourly payroll
- Experience with bonus and commission payroll, supplemental withholding, and accruals
- Knowledge of federal, state, and local payroll tax, FLSA, and year-end reporting
- Experience with journal entries, general ledger reconciliations, and month-end close
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills
Responsibilities
- Run full-cycle multi-state US W-2 payroll in Rippling
- Maintain federal, state, and local tax compliance and complete new state registrations
- Manage year-end reporting, including W-2s, W-2Cs, and fringe reporting
- Administer payroll-side benefit deductions
- Process hourly, non-exempt, and intern pay in compliance with California wage rules
- Audit timekeeping, meal and rest break attestations, premiums, and wage statements each cycle
- Manage global EOR payroll inputs, register reviews, invoice reconciliation, and new-country setup
- Process US and international contractor payments and collect W-9 and W-8BEN forms
- Manage contractor classification risk with People and Legal
- Reconcile contractor payroll to the general ledger monthly
- Process bonuses, commissions, variable pay, and equity-event payroll
- Validate commissions with Sales Operations and Finance
- Prepare payroll journal entries, general ledger reconciliations, and month-end accruals
- Maintain payroll controls, audit trails, filings, agency notices, and audits
- Automate manual payroll steps and maintain payroll calendars, runbooks, and policies
- Answer employee payroll questions
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
- Regular team events and offsites
