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Sardine is a leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime, offering fraud prevention, compliance, and risk infrastructure to major companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, and Checkout.com.
You will manage payroll across Sardine's global workforce, handling end-to-end payroll processing for employees in the United States, Canada, and Lithuania, as well as contractor and EOR payroll through platforms like Rippling and Deel. This role requires exceptional attention to detail and a solid understanding of payroll procedures.
Key responsibilities include:
**Global Payroll Operations:**
- Execute end-to-end global payroll across US and other global entities, including EOR and contractor arrangements
- Process off-cycle and correction payroll runs, including retroactive pay, sign-on bonuses, commissions, garnishments, and disability payments
- Manage relationships and SLA performance with global payroll, EOR, and benefits platforms (Rippling, Deel, Fidelity, Wealthsimple)
- Establish standard operating procedures, internal controls, and variance reporting to ensure 100% accuracy in payroll processing and FX reconciliations
- Support annual payroll compliance reporting for the US, including preparation, review, and audit of W-2s
- Manage payroll tax registrations, agency notices, quarterly amendments, unemployment claims, and year-end corrections
- Oversee governance, funding, and reconciliation for domestic and international retirement programs (US 401k, Canadian RRSP)
- Partner with People Ops to ensure tax compliance for global equity awards, Carta transactions, sign-on bonuses, garnishments, and disability disbursements
**Accounting Operations:**
- Manage employee stipends and expense reimbursements
- Support accruals for commissions, bonuses, payroll taxes, and benefits
- Ensure accuracy of payroll-related balance sheet accounts and support monthly and year-end reconciliations
Sardine is a remote-first company with flexible work arrangements within your country of hire. The company values performance over hours worked and offers generous compensation, early exercise options, flexible PTO, health insurance, 4% 401k/RRSP matching, MacBook Pro, home office stipend, meal stipend, social meet-up stipend, health and wellness stipend, and annual learning stipend.
**Requirements:**
- 5+ years of payroll experience, including independently processing multi-state US payroll
- Canadian payroll experience required; additional international experience is a plus
- Experience with payroll tax compliance and working with state agencies
- Experience with correction runs, retroactive payments, tax notices, and year-end reporting
- Experience with payroll platforms such as Rippling and Deel, and retirement plan vendors such as Fidelity or Wealthsimple
- Strong knowledge of U.S. federal, state, and local payroll regulations and tax requirements
- Strong understanding of payroll accounting, including accruals, liabilities, reconciliations, and year-end reporting
- Experience supporting year-end financial statement audits and preparing payroll audit schedules
- Ability to analyze payroll data, identify discrepancies, and resolve complex issues
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
- Ability to manage deadlines in a high-compliance, deadline-driven environment
- High level of integrity, discretion, and professionalism in handling confidential information
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-functionally with People, Finance, IT, and international teams
