Senior Payroll Specialist (Global)

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:</strong></p> <p>Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our <a href="https://alpaca.markets/blog/alpaca-raises-150-million-at-a-1-15b-valuation-to-build-the-global-standard-for-brokerage-infrastructure/">recent Series D funding round</a> brought our total investment to over $320 million, fueling our ambitious vision.</p> <p>Amongst our subsidiaries, Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totalling over 9 million brokerage accounts.</p> <p>Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of <strong>opening financial services to everyone on the planet</strong>. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.</p> <p>Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Our Team Members:</strong></p> <p>We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond!<br><br>We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.</p></div><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>We are seeking a <strong>Senior Payroll Specialist (Global)</strong> to own and operationalize payroll across a rapidly scaling international organization. This role will centralize payroll operations within Finance and support our continued global expansion, including growth to ~500 employees this year.</p> <p>The ideal candidate is a hands-on payroll professional with strong international aptitude, comfortable navigating multiple tax jurisdictions, Employer of Record (EOR) structures, and Professional Employer Organization (PEO) relationships. This individual will play a key role in supporting potential transitions off the U.S. PEO model, improving payroll controls, and partnering on upcoming Human Resource Information System (HRIS) and ERP initiatives.</p> <p>This is an operationally focused role with meaningful exposure to strategic projects and system implementations.</p> <h2><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Global Payroll Operations</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Manage end-to-end payroll processing across three global payroll tiers:</li> <ul> <li><strong>Direct payrolls</strong> (U.S., Canada, UK/Wealth Kernel)</li> <li><strong>Vendor-supported international payrolls</strong> (e.g., Singapore, India, Hungary, Japan, Bahamas)</li> <li><strong>Employer of Record (EOR) arrangements</strong></li> </ul> <li>Serve as primary operational owner of global payroll processes within Finance.</li> <li>Centralize payroll administration, including transition of new entity payrolls into shared services.</li> <li>Ensure payroll compliance across multiple tax and employment regimes.</li> <li>Partner with local consultants and vendors to validate statutory requirements.</li> </ul> <p> </p> <h3><strong>North America Payroll PEO Management</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Support evaluation and potential transition off the U.S. PEO model.</li> <li>Maintain and optimize payroll operations through ADP (or future provider).</li> <li>Coordinate closely with ... (truncated, view full listing at source)