Global Compliance Lead

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Client: Rippling

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: b404b2c6cfa7

Job Views: 2

Posted: 24.03.2025

Expiry Date: 08.05.2025

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 $1.4B 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

Rippling is rapidly expanding its global HR and payroll software product and services to serve the needs of employees and employers all over the world. We are looking for an experienced Compliance leader to join Rippling's Global Compliance and Payroll Operations team.

The Global Compliance leader will own all payroll and tax compliance requirements for a specific country and partner closely with the R&D team to translate compliance requirements into software. Country-level Compliance leaders should have comprehensive first-hand knowledge across pay rules, tax calculation structure, local tax filing requirements, time off/leave requirements, as well as exposure to best-in-class payroll software products. You will work hand-in-hand with Rippling's Product team to review existing product behavior and proactively define requirements for upcoming changes.

This is an exciting role that requires significant cross-departmental engagement across Product, Engineering, Operations, Legal, Sales, and CX, along with engagement with third-party advisors and regulatory bodies. It is a leadership role that will have a significant impact on the product and customer experience.

Charter for the role

• Establish global compliance as a function within a market.
• Serve as the DRI for end-to-end compliance for your specific country's payroll product.
• Define the compliance requirement for "how things need to work" in order to be a compliant end-to-end payroll software. Leverage deep personal expertise and external resources and partners to arrive at the right answer for Rippling and our customers.
• Work collaboratively with Product and Engineering to translate compliance requirements into technical software requirements. Execute all steps from research, prioritization, spec development, testing, and ongoing audit.

What you will need

First and foremost, the Global Compliance Leader needs to bring deep expertise to accelerate the velocity and accuracy of our software development of payroll software. Specifically, there are several expertise areas that are relevant in this role. We understand Compliance leaders will necessarily draw from both their own expertise as well as that of third-party partners in order to advise R&D teams on the following:

• Tax calculation across earnings and employment types: You are responsible for defining how to calculate state-level taxes, as well as taxation rules that apply to hourly vs. salaried vs. contractor workers. Country specific examples include:
• [UK] Knowledge of / has been responsible for managing or auditing HMRC PAYE and National Insurance Contributions for employees and employers, and the corresponding tax impact on pay types: from ex-gratia payouts to PILON to payrolled benefits to exercised share option spread to vested options/shares gains to meal allowances.
• [UK] Knowledge of inside/outside IR35 contractor handling.
• [Ireland] Knowledge of USC, PAYE, and PRSI taxation across pay types.
• [Ireland] Knowledge of RPNs and familiar with concepts like 'exclusion orders.'
• Time/off leave requirements and implications on payroll: You are responsible for defining how to calculate and compliantly pay out each major leave type (holiday, overtime, maternity, paternity, sick, etc.), with the goal to minimize risk of any under/overpayments. Country specific examples include:
• [Both UK and Ireland] Deep familiarity with statutory leave requirements: from eligibility, to pay calculations, to impact on pensions, to display on payslips.
• [UK] Deep understanding of UK requirements & best practices when handling bank holidays as part of leave, TOIL and overtime pay, PILON/PILOH, termination payouts, etc.
• Knowledge of critical payroll deduction types, including across pensions and savings: You are responsible for defining how each deduction type works, including but not limited to how they (employee and employer contributions) are calculated, how they are collected from customers, how they are reported and paid, whether they are pre/post tax, whether they are one-time or recurring. Country specific examples include:
• Knowledge of pension plans including Salary Sacrifice and AVCs, Benefit in Kind / P11D(b), private healthcare plans setup and taxation, KIT days.
• Requirements of a payroll software provider: You are responsible for staying up to date on the latest legislative requirements to operate as a compliant payroll software provider in the country. These requirements may range from "nothing" to annual software certifications/testing. Country specific examples include:
• Integrations/core workflows including HMRC (UK) & ROS / Revenue online service (IE).
• Knowledge of key regulatory timelines and proactive monitoring of changes in compliance requirements: You are responsible for proactively monitoring, documenting, prioritizing, and implementing changes to compliance requirements (e.g., contribution rates, thresholds, tax types, policies). While these changes are typically announced for the upcoming fiscal year, they can occur at any point due to the passing of new legislation. Country specific examples include:
• Autumn/Spring budget, new tax year and year-end changes, student loan body threshold & policy changes.
• Relationships with and experience working with quality third-party advisors: This may include affiliation and knowledge of regional payroll associations that can provide helpful insight into payroll requirements. You are responsible for executing both in-house research and leveraging experienced third parties to define the compliant answer for Rippling.

In addition to the technical expertise in the above areas, the Global Compliance Leader must have the following cross-functional and organizational experiences:

• Experience working closely with Product Managers and Engineers.
• Strong project management and organizational skills: high attention to detail with excellent work product, time management, independence, and project execution.
• Proven track record of success managing multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• Stellar communication and presentation skills; the ability to simplify complex concepts for any audience.
• 5+ years of experience in a Compliance function; 10+ years of experience in Payroll.
• Preferred, but not required: Hands-on experience using at least one payroll system. You understand the practicalities of running payroll for a large organization.
• Preferred, but not required: CPA or country-equivalent credential.