Director of Payroll, APAC

Anthropic; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Director of Payroll to lead the international payroll function from Singapore. You will manage end-to-end payroll for APAC entities and oversee compliance, systems integration, and partnerships with third-party providers.

This role requires a strong background in global payroll, Workday HRIS, and a track record of improving processes to support rapid international expansion. A hybrid work arrangement is available in Singapore.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 10+ years payroll operations experience, with 5+ years international payroll.
• Experience with various compensation types (regular, off-cycle, severance, taxable benefits, equity).
• Knowledge of international payroll regulations and compliance.
• Experience with Workday HRIS and PwC GPP platform preferred.

Responsibilities

• Execute full-cycle payroll for APAC international entities.
• Support expansion of payroll operations to new countries.
• Ensure tax and employment law compliance across jurisdictions.
• Manage relationships with third-party payroll providers.
• Process international payroll reports and analytics for management.

Skills

Workday HRIS

Global payroll

International payroll

Excel

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

PwC GPP platform

Job description

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

We are seeking a detail-oriented and skilled Director of Payroll to join our growing Finance team in Singapore. In this role, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of international payroll processing, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery of payroll services to our employees across multiple countries. This role will report to our Head of International Accounting with a dotted line to the Head of Global Payroll.

Responsibilities

• Execute full-cycle payroll processing for APAC international entities including India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, and many more as we expand.
• Support expansion of payroll operations to new countries including Singapore, New Zealand, and others
• Support Corporate Accounting with month-end payroll related accounting tasks and questions
• Ensure compliance with local tax regulations and employment laws across all jurisdictions
• Manage relationships with third-party payroll providers
• Respond to employee inquiries regarding international payroll matters in a timely and professional manner
• Partner closely with the equity team to process stock options
• Resolve international tax notices from various tax authorities
• Collaborate with People, Tax, Global Mobility, Finance, and other departments to resolve payroll discrepancies and implement process improvements
• Assist in preparing international payroll reports and analytics for management review
• Support payroll systems integration projects and process automation initiatives
• Process end-to-end payroll using Workday and Global Payroll Platform (PwC)

You may be a good fit if you

• Hold a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Have 10+ years of experience in payroll operations, with at least 5 years in international payroll
• Are proficient in payroll processing for various compensation types (regular, off-cycle, severance, taxable benefits, and equity)
• Have strong knowledge of international payroll regulations and compliance requirements
• Are experienced with payroll journal entries, account reconciliations, and month-end close procedures
• Have experience working with Workday HRIS and global payroll providers such as PwC GPP platform (preferred)
• Possess excellent attention to detail, ability to multitask and maintain accuracy under tight deadlines
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Are proficient in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets

Strong candidates may also:

• Have experience supporting rapid international expansion
• Possess knowledge of European employment law and tax regulations
• Have experience with payroll systems implementations
• Be familiar with Workday or other major HRIS platforms
• Hold a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• Have 5-6+ years of experience in payroll operations, with at least 3 years in international payroll
• Are proficient in payroll processing for various compensation types (regular, off-cycle, severance, taxable benefits, and equity)
• Have strong knowledge of international payroll regulations and compliance requirements
• Are experienced with payroll journal entries, account reconciliations, and month-end close procedures
• Have experience working with Workday HRIS and global payroll providers
• Possess excellent attention to detail, ability to multitask and maintain accuracy under tight deadlines
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Are proficient in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We’re an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage:Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.