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Payroll Manager

Anthropic

Anthropic

Accounting & Finance
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2024
We are looking for a Payroll Manager to join our Finance team at Anthropic. In this role, you will take ownership of payroll processes, systems, and reporting for both our US and international teams. If you are looking for an opportunity to have a significant impact at an innovative AI company, come support the team making AI safe.
About Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our customers and for society as a whole. Our interdisciplinary team has experience across ML, physics, policy, business and product.

Responsibilities:

  • Oversee the complete payroll process, ensuring accurate payroll payments, reporting, and records for US and international entities
  • Liaise with international payroll providers to address international payroll issues
  • Ensure accurate compensation operations inclusive of equity, benefits, variable compensation, stipends, etc.
  • Ensure operational efficiency and compliance by documenting and continuously improving procedures and workflows, including developing and maintaining internal controls over payroll processes
  • Execute monthly payroll close duties including preparation of journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, and flux analysis for all payroll accounts and processes
  • Perform rigorous audits of payroll data, including wages, tax withholdings, deductions, and garnishments
  • Manage payroll relating to equity option exercises, including calculations and remittance to federal and state tax authorities
  • Provide reporting to Finance and Human Resources on various payroll-related matters

You may be a good fit if you:

  • Have 6+ years of experience in payroll processing in both the US and at least one international market
  • Have experience with payroll reporting requirements and tax implications
  • Have experience maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive information
  • Have experience partnering with cross-functional teams, including legal, HR, tax, accounting and finance
  • Have strong communication skills with a customer-service orientation and ability to interact with all levels of the organization with an eye for detail, robust analytical abilities, and proven project management skills
  • Have experience managing multiple priorities, time sensitive deadlines, and anticipate timing needs that will impact payroll

Strong candidates may also:

  • CPP or equivalent certification
  • Have implemented payroll systems from the ground up and have experience working with Workday HRIS
  • Have experience with NetSuite and proficiency with Google Suite and Microsoft Office

Annual Salary (USD)

  • The expected salary range for this position is $190k - $230k USD.
Logistics
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
US visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support. But if we make you an offer, we will make every effort to get you into the United States, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Compensation and Benefits*
Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.
Equity - On top of this position's salary (listed above), equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.
US Benefits - The following benefits are for our US-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
- Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
- Fertility benefits via Carrot.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.
UK Benefits - The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of your equity grant.
- Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
- Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
- Health cash plan.
- Life insurance and income protection.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.
How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills. We do not have boundaries between engineering and research, and we expect all of our technical staff to contribute to both as needed.
The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation based in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.