About the role
Rippling is a leading Employer of Record (EOR) provider, enabling businesses to hire globally while ensuring compliance with local labor laws and regulations. As part of their compensation strategy, some EOR customers choose to grant equity to EOR employees, which introduces complex, country-specific payroll, tax, and reporting requirements that Rippling helps support through its EOR Equity Services.
The Global Payroll Specialist will join Rippling’s growing Global EOR Equity Services team, reporting to the Global EOR Equity Program Manager. This is a foundational role on a small, specialized team responsible for supporting equity-related payroll and compliance operations for EOR customers and employees across multiple countries.
This role is strongly payroll-oriented and operationally focused. This role focuses on guiding customers on how equity-related income is reported through payroll, how tax withholding is calculated, and how equity income appears on pay statements and statutory reporting, within the EOR model where Rippling is the legal employer and the equity is granted and administered by a third-party issuing company (the EOR customer). The role works closely with global payroll, tax, legal, and EOR Operations teams to support accurate equity payroll reporting, tax withholding, remittance, and required compliance filings, while helping to build scalable, well-documented processes as EOR Equity Services continues to grow.
What you will do
Equity payroll, filings, and compliance operations
- Own end-to-end equity workflows for EOR employees, including data collection, validation, payroll reporting, tax withholding, remittance, and compliance filings across multiple jurisdictions.
- Guide customers on how to correctly report equity-related taxable income in payroll, including which earnings codes to use, how to enter taxable amounts, and how to handle regular pay runs, off-cycle payroll, and payroll corrections.
- Support payroll processing for equity events such as stock option exercises and RSU vesting, ensuring equity income is configured correctly for local tax and social contribution treatment.
- Explain equity-related payroll outcomes to customers and employees, including:
- How equity income is treated as imputed income and used solely to calculate tax withholding
- Why equity income may not result in a net cash payment
- How employer and employee withholdings are calculated
- How equity income and taxes appear on pay statements and annual wage reporting
- Help customers understand applicable tax withholding approaches for equity income by country, including the use of maximum or supplemental rates where required, while ensuring Rippling payroll calculates and applies final withholding amounts.
- Partner closely with Global Payroll and Tax Operations teams to ensure equity income is set up correctly in payroll systems, including earnings codes, taxability settings, and downstream reporting impacts.
- Respond to customer and internal inquiries regarding equity-related payroll treatment, compliance timelines, and documentation requirements.
- Track country-specific deadlines, filing requirements, and regulatory obligations to ensure timely and accurate execution.
Operational analysis and risk management
- Review equity transaction data and supporting documentation to identify gaps, inconsistencies, or potential payroll and compliance risks.
- Escalate complex or non-standard equity payroll, filings, and compliance scenarios to appropriate internal stakeholders for review and guidance.
- Support analysis of new countries, equity types, or regulatory changes impacting EOR equity payroll and reporting.
Process documentation and scaling
- Maintain trackers, standard operating procedures, and internal reference materials related to equity payroll reporting, filings, and compliance processes.
- Identify opportunities to improve standardization, documentation, and operational efficiency.
- Support projects related to scaling EOR Equity Services, including automation, tooling, and process improvements for equity payroll and compliance workflows
What you will have
- 5+ years of experience in global payroll operations, tax compliance, or a related role.
- Experience supporting multi-country payroll reporting or payroll inputs for non-cash or imputed income (such as equity, benefits-in-kind, or other taxable fringe benefits).
- Familiarity with common equity types (such as NSOs and RSUs) and how taxable events flow through payroll, impact withholding, and appear on pay statements and annual wage reporting is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with equity-related payroll and tax filings (for example, UK ERS returns, Ireland RSS1 filings, or similar) is a plus.
- Experience with EOR, PEO, or other complex employment models is strongly preferred.
- Ability to interpret legal or tax guidance and translate it into clear, practical payroll and operational steps.
- Clear, confident written communication skills, with comfort explaining complex payroll concepts to customers and non-expert audiences.
- Exceptional attention to detail and comfort managing complex data sets, deadlines, and cross-functional dependencies.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment with evolving processes.
- Certified Equity Professional (CEP) Level 1 (i.e., Equity Compensation Associate or ECA designation), or interest in pursuing, is a plus.
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills, including working with large data sets, formulas, lookups, and pivot tables, along with experience using case management systems (for example, Salesforce).
Additional Information
Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accommodations@rippling.com
Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.
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This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.
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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