Senior Payroll Analyst, North America
Job Description
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) or equivalent designation
- ADP Workforce Now experience
- Manage end-to-end payroll processing for U.S. and Canadian employees
- Ensure compliance with federal, state/provincial, and local payroll tax regulations
- Own payroll issue resolution
- Partner with People Operations, Benefits, and external vendors
- Act as a subject matter expert for payroll best practices
- Assist with year-end activities, including W-2s, T4s, tax filings, and audits
- Mentor and guide Payroll Administrator
- BA/BS in Business Administration, Accounting Finance or related field
- 7+ years of payroll processing experience
- Strong knowledge of federal and state/provincial payroll tax regulations
- Experience with payroll systems
- Strong customer service focus
- Excellent attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Analytical skills
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with integrity
- Experience working in cross-functional environments
- Generous performance-based bonus plans
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting
- Quarterly all-company wellness days
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Considerable paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc.)
About this team and role:
Responsible for leading the North America payroll operations, processing semi-monthly payroll for around 800 U.S. and Canadian employees while ensuring compliance with federal, state/provincial, and local regulations. This role will ensure accurate and timely payroll cycles, compliance with tax laws and company policies, and provide reporting and analysis to support business needs. The Senior Payroll Analyst will also play a key role in process improvements and cross-functional initiatives.
What you’ll do:
- Manage end-to-end payroll processing for U.S. and Canadian employees (~800 employees), ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payroll on a semi-monthly basis.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state/provincial, and local payroll tax regulations and reporting requirements.
- Own payroll issue resolution, effectively collaborating and communicating with internal and external partners.
- Partner with the People Operations, Benefits and external vendors to ensure accurate benefit deductions and payroll-related transactions.
- Act as a subject matter expert and resource for payroll best practices, laws, and system capabilities continually looking for opportunities to standardize and scale payroll processes and procedures.
- Assist with year-end activities, including W-2s, T4s, tax filings, and audits.
- Mentor and guide Payroll Administrator.
What you’ll bring:
- BA/BS in Business Administration, Accounting Finance or related field
- AND 7+ years of payroll processing experience, preferably across U.S. and Canadian payrolls.
- OR equivalent combination of education
- Strong knowledge of federal and state/provincial payroll tax regulations.
- Experience with payroll systems. ADP Workforce Now experience is strongly preferred.
- Strong customer service focus with an ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and partner with key stakeholders.
- Excellent attention to detail, organizational, and analytical skills.
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with integrity.
- Experience working in cross-functional environments.
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) or equivalent designation is a plus.
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
What you’ll get:
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
- Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
- Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Considerable paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)
Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.
We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com to request accommodation.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.
