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 $1.2B 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
We're looking for an experienced payroll specialist to join Rippling’s Global Payroll Operations team. We are rapidly expanding Rippling to serve the needs of employees and employers all over the world. Our Global Payroll Operations team plays a critical role in ensuring the success of our global payroll products, which are natively built and fully integrated with Rippling’s broader suite of products.
As Rippling expands its product offerings globally, there is a critical business need for Rippling to develop new muscles around global product operations and country-specific payroll expertise outside of the US.
This role, Global Payroll Operations Specialist, is a critical hire for the Global Payroll Operations team that will be fully dedicated to developing and executing these new capabilities. This role will own all operational aspects across select countries, relationships with our external partners, and drive our expansion into new customer segments and geographies. Additionally, this role brings critical country-specific payroll expertise to support the development of our natively built payroll software.
This is an exciting role that requires significant cross-departmental engagement with a major impact on the product and customer experience.
What you will do
Execute timely payroll, filings, and payments for all customers across key countries
Drive issue resolution and communication with various government agencies and partners; you will directly interface with our customers and resolve issues on their behalf
Work closely with Global Payroll Engineering and Product teams to ensure that:
Natively built payroll software supports key payroll and tax compliance requirements
Product bugs and product issues (e.g., calculation errors, file generation errors) are quickly addressed
Internal tooling requirements are properly prioritized and implemented
What you will need
Minimum of 4+ years in a global payroll processing role, and minimum of 2+ years in a client facing role
Strong Sweden payroll experience
Experience running payroll in-house with the most common Swedish payroll softwares
Bonus if you have experience running payroll in other EMEA countries
Process payroll activities in accordance with company guidelines, social security, legislations and local taxes requirements.
Experience with Google Suite or Microsoft Office, especially Docs/Sheets/Excel, for data analysis and task organization; familiarity with Salesforce queues, JIRA, and Confluence a plus
Ability to review and validate calculations
Must have understanding of payroll concepts
Strong knowledge of payroll regulations
Has working experience with payroll related systems and software
Deep understanding of the leave entitlements
Good knowledge of labor legislation
Strong organizational skills and able to work under strict deadlines
Fluent in both Swedish and English
Rippling is a workforce management platform that consolidates HR, IT, and Finance operations into a single integrated system. The company brings together workforce systems typically scattered across organizations—including payroll, expenses, benefits, and IT asset management—enabling businesses to automate and manage the entire employee lifecycle. Rippling's platform enables employers to onboard new employees globally within 90 seconds, automatically setting up payroll, corporate cards, computers, benefits, and third-party applications like Slack and Microsoft 365. The company has raised $1.4-1.85B from top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock, and was recognized as one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.
