Global Payroll Operations Specialist - UAE

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 82,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling, a global payroll and HR platform, is seeking a Global Payroll Operations Specialist to help shape our UAE payroll capabilities. You will own operational aspects across select countries and partner with external providers to ensure compliant, timely payroll processing.

The role requires deep UAE payroll knowledge, strong regulatory understanding, and fluent Arabic and English, with experience supporting cross-border payroll deployments and customer-facing interactions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in a UAE payroll processing role.
• Expert knowledge of UAE payroll.
• Experience with Google Suite, Excel; familiarity with Salesforce, JIRA, Confluence.
• Fluent in Arabic and English.

Responsibilities

• Execute timely payroll, filings, and payments for all customers across UAE.
• Drive issue resolution and communicate with government agencies and partners; interface with customers to resolve issues.
• Collaborate with Global Payroll Engineering and Product teams to ensure payroll software supports key requirements.
• Review calculations and ensure accuracy of payroll outputs.
• Manage relationships with external partners and support expansion into new geographies.

Skills

UAE payroll expertise

Arabic fluency

English fluency

Client facing

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to deadlines

Tools

Google Suite

Excel

Salesforce

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Global Payroll Operations Specialist - UAE

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

We're looking for an experienced payroll specialist to join Rippling’s Global Payroll Operations team. We are rapidly expanding Rippling to serve the needs of employees and employers all over the world. Our Global Payroll Operations team plays a critical role in ensuring the success of our global payroll products, which are natively built and fully integrated with Rippling’s broader suite of products.

As Rippling expands its product offerings globally, there is a critical business need for Rippling to develop new muscles around global product operations and country-specific payroll expertise outside of the US.

This role, Global Payroll Operations Specialist, is a critical hire for the Global Payroll Operations team that will be fully dedicated to developing and executing these new capabilities. This role will own all operational aspects across select countries, relationships with our external partners, and drive our expansion into new customer segments and geographies. Additionally, this role brings critical country-specific payroll expertise to support the development of our natively built payroll software.

This is an exciting role that requires significant cross-departmental engagement with a major impact on the product and customer experience.

What you will do

• Execute timely payroll, filings, and payments for all customers across key countries
• Drive issue resolution and communication with various government agencies and partners; you will directly interface with our customers and resolve issues on their behalf
• Work closely with Global Payroll Engineering and Product teams to ensure that:
• Natively built payroll software supports key payroll and tax compliance requirements
• Product bugs and product issues (e.g., calculation errors, file generation errors) are quickly addressed
• Internal tooling requirements are properly prioritised and implemented

What you will need

• Minimum of 5+ years in a UAE payroll processing role , and ideally 2+ years in a client facing role
• Expert knowledge of UAE payroll .
• Bonus if you have experience running payroll in other EMEA countries.
• Process payroll activities in accordance with company guidelines, social security, legislations and local taxes requirements.
• Experience with Google Suite or Microsoft Office, especially Docs/Sheets/Excel, for data analysis and task organisation; familiarity with Salesforce queues, JIRA, and Confluence a plus
• Ability to review and validate calculations
• Must have understanding of payroll concepts
• Strong knowledge of payroll regulations
• Has working experience with payroll related systems and software
• Deep understanding of the leave entitlements
• Good knowledge of labor legislation
• Strong organisational skills and able to work under strict deadlines
• Fluent in Arabic and English - written and spoken