Payroll Accountant

Summary

Join Who Gives A Crap, a purpose-led scale-up making eco-friendly products and donating 50% of profits to provide clean water and sanitation globally. We seek a detail-oriented Payroll Accountant to ensure accurate and timely payment for US and PH employees. This role involves supporting onboarding, compliance, terminations, and system improvements, collaborating with P&C and Legal teams. You will report to the Financial Accountant - Payroll Lead and contribute to enhancing global payroll processes. The company prioritizes meaningful work and a positive work environment. We are a certified B Corp™ committed to social and environmental impact.

Requirements

• Take pride in precision
• Know your way around payroll processes and systems (ADP, Celergo or NetSuite)
• Have a knack for keeping things organised even when the requests are flying in from all directions
• Ask smart questions, suggest process improvements, and can juggle compliance with care
• Spot a discrepancy before it causes trouble and calmly sort it out like a pro
• Enjoy working across teams, collaborating with P&C, Legal and Finance
• Be curious, proactive, and always looking for ways to streamline, simplify, and sharpen the way we do things
• Be happy owning your space but also not afraid to say, “Hey, I need a hand.”
• Be keen to do meaningful work, surrounded by passionate people, at a company that gives a crap

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate and timely payment for US and PH employees
• Support onboarding, compliance, and terminations processes
• Contribute to system improvements alongside P&C and Legal teams
• Enhance global payroll processes
• Partner with our P&C team to smooth out onboarding for a new teammate in the US (and made sure their paperwork didn’t turn into a paper jam)
• Finalise a payroll run with our external partner and double-checked that everyone was paid on time and without a hitch
• Draft an SOP with our Finance teams and the People and Culture team to lock in our control processes and approval flow—goodbye chaos, hello clarity
• Help a teammate make sense of their 401K contributions and gave them peace of mind that things were tracking correctly
• Collaborate with Legal to better understand the ins and outs of our hub model and how it affects payroll compliance across regions
• Do a deep dive into potential payroll platforms that could scale with our growing global team (hello, future-proofing)
• Manage payroll entries in NetSuite with hawk-like attention to detail, making sure everything reconciled beautifully

Benefits

• Competitive, market informed salaries
• Meaningful support towards healthcare for our team around the world
• Generous paid leave
• Tailored learning and development opportunities
• Free toilet paper