Global Payroll Operations Specialist - France (Contract role)

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

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 within France, which includes tax issue resolution on behalf of our customers, communication with government agencies, and collaboration with R&D teams.

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.

The position will be a part-time contract role about 20 hours a week.

What you will do

• Execute timely filings and payments for all customers in France alongside the R&D team
• Drive issue resolution and communication with various government agencies; 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 in France
• Product bugs and product issues (e.g., calculation errors, file generation errors) are quickly addressed
• Internal tooling requirements are properly prioritized and implemented

Help the organization scale and grow with the business

Drive automated solutions that enable better efficiency and process improvement

What you will need

• Deep understanding of French payroll and tax compliance requirements. Key areas of expertise include : payroll tax and benefit calculations, filing and payment requirements, and tax notice resolution
• Experience communicating and collaborating with tax agencies in the France, including DGFIP, URSSAF and other social security contribution authorities
• Minimum of 3+ years in a client-facing role, preferably in French payroll processing with an understanding of payroll software
• You will be writing Compliance Briefs for specific topics that are needed to build a compliant France payroll software system.

Please take the perspective that you will need to breakdown a very large and complex topic into a digestible form

You will be working closely with Rippling’s Product & Engineering teams to clarify and deepen your completed briefs and answer follow up questions;

you are their go-to subject matter expert

You will be leveraging your existing expertise, and conducting research wherever needed. Always cite your sources

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