Associate Director, Global Payroll Accounting

Trilliad, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Trilliad, LLC is seeking a seasoned Global Payroll Accounting leader to own the monthly close, balance sheet reconciliations, and GAAP-compliant reporting for payroll, bonuses, commissions, equity, and benefits across all jurisdictions. You will lead the close, set the standard for payroll accounting as Trilliad scales geographically, and coordinate with tax registrations and regulatory filings.

In this role you will collaborate with the Talent Team to ensure payroll deliveries meet operational

Responsibilities

• Oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting close process for all compensation-related accounts globally—ensuring accurate accrual, recognition, and reporting of payroll, bonuses, commissions, equity, and benefits in compliance with US GAAP and local statutory requirements
• Manage the reconciliation and substantiation of compensation-related balance sheet accounts across all entities—ensuring audit readiness and resolving discrepancies between payroll systems, general ledger, and statutory filings
• Direct the accounting treatment of complex compensation structures including sales commissions, performance bonuses, equity-based compensation, and multi-country benefit programs—translating operational complexity into compliant financial reporting
• Manage the finance components of the global payroll process—coordinating with the Talent Team and external payroll providers to ensure payroll is delivered on time, accurately, and with complete accounting inputs across all jurisdictions
• Oversee the collection, validation, and accounting treatment of payroll inputs including commissions from internal and external sources, bonuses, equity vesting, and benefit deductions—ensuring data integrity and timely processing
• Ensure payroll tax registrations, filings, and regulatory communications are accurate and compliant—serving as the primary finance point of contact for payroll tax authorities and external advisors
• Standardize payroll accounting processes—harmonizing practices across acquired businesses and new country operations to ensure consistency, scalability, and control effectiveness
• Evaluate and strengthen internal controls over payroll accounting and reporting—identifying risks, implementing mitigating controls, and ensuring SOX compliance where applicable
• Drive process improvements and automation in payroll accounting workflows—reducing manual effort, improving data accuracy, and enabling faster close cycles as the organization scales
• Manage the payroll accounting team—setting priorities, allocating work, coaching team members, and conducting performance reviews to build capability and ensure delivery against close timelines and audit requirements
• Develop team expertise in multi-country payroll accounting, compensation structures, and regulatory compliance—ensuring the team can operate with increasing independence as Trilliad expands geographically
• Partner with external auditors during quarterly reviews and year-end audits—providing documentation, reconciliations, and explanations for all compensation-related accounts and ensuring timely resolution of audit inquiries
• Monitor changes in payroll tax regulations, accounting standards, and statutory reporting requirements across all jurisdictions—assessing impact and implementing necessary changes to accounting policies and processes

Job description

About Trilliad

Trilliad, a market-leading Growth Services Provider (GSP), solves challenges and drives results for Growth Leaders across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. Trilliad’s full-service solutions deliver competitive advantage for the brands it works with by optimizing their sales and marketing strategies, processes, skills, and technology. Trilliad drives efficiency and predictability at the intersection of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to increase seller productivity, lower cost per lead, decrease cost per sale, accelerate time to close, and drive customer lifetime value.

About Trilliad

Trilliad, a market-leading Growth Services Provider (GSP), solves challenges and drives results for Growth Leaders across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success. Trilliad’s full-service solutions deliver competitive advantage for the brands it works with by optimizing their sales and marketing strategies, processes, skills, and technology. Trilliad drives efficiency and predictability at the intersection of Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to increase seller productivity, lower cost per lead, decrease cost per sale, accelerate time to close, and drive customer lifetime value. At Trilliad, culture is our backbone. It shapes how we think, behave, and treat one another, and it defines how our clients, partners, and communities experience us. Every company has a culture, and at Trilliad, we make ours intentional—anchored in our Leadership Principles. These principles guide every decision and interaction: putting the company first, obsessing over growth, remembering that business is personal, and ensuring strategy turns into execution. We succeed by being one team, striving for greatness, speaking the truth, and holding ourselves accountable. We lighten up with humor, stay patient and disciplined, run towards problems, celebrate results, and never accept confusion as an option. This is the culture you step into at Trilliad—purposeful, lived, and continually developed.

What you will do

You own global payroll accounting — the monthly close, balance sheet reconciliation, and GAAP-compliant financial reporting that turn Trilliad's payroll, bonus, commission, equity, and benefits liabilities into accurate, audit-ready numbers across every country and acquired business. You lead the team that runs this close process, set the standard for how payroll accounting is done as Trilliad scales into new geographies, and serve as the primary finance point of contact for payroll tax registrations and regulatory filings. You also collaborate with the Talent Team to ensure payroll delivery meets both operational and financial-reporting requirements — but the accounting, the controls, and the audit trail are yours.

Which means that on a day-to-day basis, you will:

Global Payroll Accounting and Financial Reporting

• Oversee the monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting close process for all compensation-related accounts globally — ensuring accurate accrual, recognition, and reporting of payroll, bonuses, commissions, equity, and benefits in compliance with US GAAP and local statutory requirements
• Manage the reconciliation and substantiation of compensation-related balance sheet accounts across all entities — ensuring audit readiness and resolving discrepancies between payroll systems, general ledger, and statutory filings
• Direct the accounting treatment of complex compensation structures including sales commissions, performance bonuses, equity-based compensation, and multi-country benefit programs — translating operational complexity into compliant financial reporting

Payroll Process Ownership and Cross-Functional Coordination

• Manage the finance components of the global payroll process — coordinating with the Talent Team and external payroll providers to ensure payroll is delivered on time, accurately, and with complete accounting inputs across all jurisdictions
• Oversee the collection, validation, and accounting treatment of payroll inputs including commissions from internal and external sources, bonuses, equity vesting, and benefit deductions — ensuring data integrity and timely processing
• Ensure payroll tax registrations, filings, and regulatory communications are accurate and compliant — serving as the primary finance point of contact for payroll tax authorities and external advisors

Standardization and Process Improvement

• Standardize payroll accounting processes — harmonizing practices across acquired businesses and new country operations to ensure consistency, scalability, and control effectiveness
• Evaluate and strengthen internal controls over payroll accounting and reporting — identifying risks, implementing mitigating controls, and ensuring SOX compliance where applicable
• Drive process improvements and automation in payroll accounting workflows — reducing manual effort, improving data accuracy, and enabling faster close cycles as the organization scales

Team Leadership and Development

• Manage the payroll accounting team — setting priorities, allocating work, coaching team members, and conducting performance reviews to build capability and ensure delivery against close timelines and audit requirements
• Develop team expertise in multi-country payroll accounting, compensation structures, and regulatory compliance — ensuring the team can operate with increasing independence as Trilliad expands geographically

Audit and Compliance Support

• Partner with external auditors during quarterly reviews and year-end audits — providing documentation, reconciliations, and explanations for all compensation-related accounts and ensuring timely resolution of audit inquiries
• Monitor changes in payroll tax regulations, accounting standards, and statutory reporting requirements across all jurisdictions — assessing impact and implementing necessary changes to accounting policies and processes

How you’ll do it

Because how we do things matters just as much as what we do at Trilliad, our Leadership Principles should act as a compass directing the everyday behavior of every teammate across the organization:

Growth Obsessed. For our business, our clients, and our Selves.

Create Client Value. Become irreplaceable

Business is Personal. Cultivate relationships. Make space for connection. Care about each other.

Tighten-Up. Focus, discipline, and rigor count.

Lighten-Up. Humor and laughter deepen bonds.

Strategy Without Execution Is Just Dreaming. Hope is not a strategy. Vision matters—so does execution.

You Have the Ball. Be accountable. Take action. Go the distance.

Be One Team. No lone wolves. Have each other’s back and help each other out.

Run Towards Problems. Symptoms signal deeper causes. Find the root.

Raise The Bar. Good is the enemy of great. Better never stops—be a Difference-Maker!

Have the Hard Conversation. Be direct and empathetic. Speak the truth, kindly. Feedback is a gift.

Confusion Is a Choice. Stay curious—Seek to understand. Share context—seek to be understood.

Celebrate Results. Make recognition a habit. Shine a light on what’s working, big or small