Compensation & Payroll Manager

About Finfare

Finfare is dedicated to empowering SMBs, by providing the ultimate expense management solution for growing businesses seeking to streamline their financial operations and maximize cash back rewards. Finfare offers easy expense tracking, personalized spend controls, seamless accounting integration, powerful analytics, and reliable charge card services. Our cardholders can tap into our vast network of reward program publishers and card-linked merchant offers, ensuring even bigger cash back rewards for their business.

We are always working on redefining the boundaries of digital financial services and aim to stay one step ahead in the ever-evolving fintech landscape.

About the Role

We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Compensation & Payroll Manager to manage and optimize payroll processes, compensation strategies, and benefit administration for both US and global employees (including contractors). The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in payroll processing, benefits administration, and compensation analysis. Experience with Rippling, global payroll, stock options administration (Carta), and financial reporting are highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• HR Responsibilities:
• Payroll Processing: Oversee payroll for US employees (with specific experience in CA, NY, TX, WA, OR) and manage global payroll for regions like Canada, UK, and France, including payments for contractors.
• Reporting: Generate reports using Rippling and other systems to ensure accurate data for payroll, benefits, and compensation reporting.
• Invoice Verification: Ensure the accuracy of payroll-related invoices.
• Benefits Administration: Manage employee benefits programs, including open enrollment and benefit plan selection, in collaboration with finance.
• Employee Stock Options Administration: Manage stock options using Carta, including grants, maintenance, and cap table reporting.
• Compensation Management: Work with pay bands and compensation structures, driving pay equity and competitive salaries.
• Finance Collaboration:
• Stock Option Reporting: Maintain accurate data entry in Carta, provide reporting for cap tables, and assist in the administration of employee stock grants.
• Payroll Reporting to Accounting: Ensure accurate payroll data reporting to facilitate month-end close and reconciliations while maintaining data confidentiality.
• Headcount & Compensation Reporting: Provide headcount metrics, attrition analysis, and regrettable attrition reporting to Finance monthly.
• Benefits & Compensation Analysis: Collaborate with HR and Finance to conduct annual benefit analysis, forecasting, and vendor selection.
• Bonus & Commission Management: Track, report, and facilitate the payout of bonuses and commissions.
• Salary Forecasting: Assist in salary forecasting and contribute to financial modeling with up-to-date payroll data.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in US & global payroll and compensation.
• Experience working in a startup or smaller-sized business.
• Deep experience with US payroll, including CA, NY, TX, WA, OR, and global payroll for Canada, UK, and France.
• Strong knowledge of Rippling and payroll systems, along with experience managing stock options in Carta.
• Expertise in managing payments for both US and international contractors.
• Prior experience reporting payroll data to accounting and finance teams, supporting month-end close processes.
• Familiarity with administering benefits plans and the ability to conduct cost analysis for vendor selection.
• Experience with compensation projects, job leveling, and pay band administration.
• Strong Excel and intermediate financial analysis skills, financial modeling skills preferred.
• On-site 4+ days a week in Irvine, CA.

Compensation

The salary range for this position is $80k - $110k+ (depending on experience).

Benefits at Finfare

• Competitive health, vision, and dental benefits (covering 100% premium for employee and all dependent(s))
• Unlimited PTO  
• 401K (with employer matching) 
• Parental leave  
• Employee stock purchase plan (if applicable)  
• Health and wellness reimbursement
• Catered lunches 3+ times a week
• Work sponsorship (if applicable)
• Other employee perks

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Finfare is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.