Payroll Specialist

3 Months ago • 5 Years + • Account Management

Job Summary

Job Description

Sonar is seeking a Payroll Specialist to ensure accurate and smooth payroll processing for US employees. Responsibilities include preparing and maintaining payroll records, ensuring compliance with regulations, and collaborating with HR and Finance teams to resolve discrepancies and improve processes. The role requires extensive payroll processing experience, strong reporting skills, and a commitment to error-free work, including understanding payroll components like commission, compensation, bonuses, and end-of-year tax forms for US regions.
Must have:
  • Minimum 5 years of payroll processing experience
  • Deep understanding of payroll processes and tax regulations
  • Experience with complex payroll for diverse compensation
  • Strong proficiency with payroll software
  • Exceptional attention to detail
  • Strong analytical and reporting capabilities
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with HR and Finance
  • Strong communication skills
  • Ability to work independently and under pressure
Good to have:
  • Experience in a US-based tech company with 300+ employees
  • Degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or related field
  • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation
Perks:
  • Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package (90% paid by company)
  • Robust time-off allocations
  • 401(k) plan with 4% match, fully vested on day one
  • Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus
  • Fully paid parking in downtown Austin, Texas
  • Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries
  • Annual global kick-off event

Job Details

Who is Sonar?

Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.

We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture.  We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily. 

We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly. 

And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.

At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations. 

Why You Should Apply: 

At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.

We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.

The Impact You Will Have:

You will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth and accurate processing of payroll for our US employees. Your responsibilities will include preparing, processing and maintaining payroll records, while ensuring compliance with all relevant laws and regulations.  You will collaborate with HR and Finance teams to address payroll discrepancies, answer employee inquiries, and implement process improvements. Your expertise will contribute to enhancing the overall efficiency of the payroll function, supporting employee satisfaction and maintaining the financial integrity of our organization.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience processing payroll, strong reporting capabilities, and a commitment to error-free work. This role requires a deep understanding of payroll components such as commission, compensation, and bonuses, as well as knowledge of end-of-year tax forms and the setup of employee accounts in various US regions.

What You Will Do Daily:
  • This individual will be responsible for processing semi-monthly payroll for up to 300 employees, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, and maintaining accurate records.
  • Collaborate heavily with HR and Finance teams, ensuring seamless communication and accurate processing of employee compensation, benefit deductions, 401(k) pension, and other compensation details.
  • This role may need to be available to address urgent payroll issues outside of regular payroll processing cycles and work hours, ensuring any discrepancies are resolved promptly.

The Experience You Will Need:
  • Minimum of 5 years of payroll processing experience, ideally in a US-based tech company with 300+ employees.
  • Deep understanding of payroll processes, tax regulations, and compliance requirements.
  • Experience managing complex payroll for diverse compensation structures, including commission, bonuses, and benefits deductions.
  • Strong proficiency with payroll software 
  • Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to maintain an error-free payroll process.
  • Strong analytical and reporting capabilities.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with HR and Finance teams.
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, with the ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
  • Ability to work independently and under pressure, meeting deadlines.
  • A degree in Accounting, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field is preferred.
  • Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation is highly desirable.

Why You Will Love It Here:
  • Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!). 
  • Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains. 
  • We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
  • We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
  • As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
  • We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.

Benefits of Working With Sonar:
  • Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package that is 90% paid by the company.
  • We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations.
  • We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
  • Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.  
  • Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.
  • Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
  • We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.

We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.

We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.  

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