Manager, Global Payroll

Snap; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Snap Inc. seeks a world-class Manager, Global Payroll to lead payroll service delivery across the Americas and APAC. You will oversee multiple entities, calendars, and tax remittances while partnering with third-party providers and internal teams to ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance.

You will drive process improvements, coaching, and cross-functional collaboration to support Snap's finance and equity programs on a global scale.

Qualifications

• Expertise in multi-country payroll and tax requirements.
• Experience with Workday payroll.
• Experience with stock-based compensation payroll (RSU).
• Knowledge of payroll funding and GL impacts.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Americas and APAC payroll operations.
• Own end-to-end payroll across entities and calendars.
• Collaborate with third-party providers and tax advisors.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and audit readiness.
• Lead payroll migrations and system enhancements.

Skills

Multi-state payroll

Workday Payroll

Global payroll

RSU payroll

Payroll tax

Tools

PwC Global Payroll Platform

ADP Streamline

Job description

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

The Company operates Snapchat , a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends, family, and the world, and Specs Inc. , a wholly-owned subsidiary dedicated to making computing more human, in addition to Bitmoji , Saturn, and other digital services.

The Finance Team includes Finance Business Partnership, Accounting, Finance Operations, Financial Systems, Internal Audit, Tax, Treasury, and Investor Relations teams. Together, the team partners with leadership to provide insights, information, and guidance to make strategic and operational decisions, advise investors about our business model and progress, and ensure the company is financially healthy and consistently meeting our reporting obligations.

We're looking for a world class Manager, Global Payroll to join team Snap! This leadership role is instrumental in leading best-in-class payroll service delivery across the Americas and APAC, while providing critical input into the overall global payroll service delivery approach. In addition to leading a regional payroll team, this leader's focus will be multi-dimensional, with responsibility for exceptional service experience, regional and local country expertise, strong partner engagement, regulatory compliance and risk mitigation, operational process excellence, and an innovative approach to future-impacting services and solutions. The incumbent will collaborate with existing payroll professionals and forward-thinking business partners throughout the company to support Snap's finance structure.

What you'll do:

• Oversee Americas and APAC payroll operations, leading a team of payroll professionals focused on timely, accurate, compliant payroll results and an exceptional service experience for regional partners and Snap team members
• Own end-to-end payroll delivery across multiple entities, countries, pay frequencies, and payroll calendars, including payroll inputs, calculations, approvals, funding, payments, tax remittances, reconciliations, reporting, and issue resolution
• Work in partnership with third-party payroll providers, tax advisors, and local country specialists to establish optimal operational and service-level expectations; foster relationships built on teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Ensure regulatory compliance while continually monitoring and analyzing the evolving regional and local country regulatory landscape
• Develop a sustained state of operational audit readiness, including coordination with partners outside of Payroll Operations
• Maintain and improve payroll controls, including payroll approvals, gross-to-net reviews, variance analysis, headcount reconciliations, funding controls, access reviews, tax tracking, and audit evidence
• Partner with Accounting and Treasury on payroll funding, cash forecasting, tax payments, bank-file processes, payroll journal entries, general-ledger impacts, and balance-sheet reconciliations
• Ensure payroll is processed accurately and timely while accounting for funding of payroll deductions and statutory obligations to third parties, including stock-based compensation and other equity-related transactions
• Partner with cross-functional partners on RSU processing, benefits and deduction inputs, mobility considerations, leave-related adjustments, terminations, and final pay
• Partner with People Tech on Workday configuration, payroll integrations, upstream data quality, business-process changes, testing, and system enhancements
• Identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and simplify payroll processes through dashboards, exception management, structured checklists, workflow improvements, and scalable reporting
• Establish clearly defined department and individual goals and objectives and communicate them to associates through department meetings and performance planning
• Utilize leadership and management experience to coach, train, and develop a highly focused, productive, resilient, and purpose-driven team
• Assist in implementing payrolls in new countries and entities, and participate in or lead cross-functional projects involving payroll migrations, acquisitions, reorganizations, system implementations, and process changes

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Strong knowledge of multi-state US payroll, multi-country payroll, payroll tax requirements, statutory obligations, and the impact of payroll transactions on the general ledger
• Workday Payroll and a global payroll platform such as PwC's Global Payroll Platform, ADP Streamline, or a similar system; Workday experience strongly preferred
• Experience processing stock-based compensation and RSU-related payroll transactions, strongly preferred
• Experience with payroll funding, tax payments, payroll jou