Senior Payroll Analyst

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $107k - $181k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧾 Payroll

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Amplitude

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2012

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

SaaS • AI • B2B

Amplitude is a leading analytics and insights platform that provides businesses with a comprehensive understanding of the entire customer journey. With products like Product Analytics, Web Analytics, and Session Replay, Amplitude offers deep behavioral analytics and AI tools to help organizations visualize user sessions, optimize product experiences, and drive business growth. The platform is designed to unify customer data across teams, enabling improved data quality and governance through its Customer Data Platform. Amplitude is particularly focused on facilitating growth, active user engagement, and monetization for a range of industries including financial services, eCommerce, media, and healthcare.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end payroll operations for US (multi-state) and Canadian employees across semi-monthly and bi-weekly cycles, ensuring all payroll inputs (new hires, terminations, tax updates, garnishments, etc.) are processed accurately and on time • Act as the primary payroll point of contact for employees and internal stakeholders, resolving inquiries with a high level of accuracy, professionalism, and urgency • Lead payroll system operations in Workday, including configuring deductions and withholdings, managing EIB uploads, building reports, and troubleshooting issues in partnership with HRIS • Manage equity compensation payroll events, including RSUs, NSOs, and ISOs, ensuring proper taxation, reporting, and reconciliation in coordination with Stock Administration and external platforms • Support month-end close and accounting activities, including preparing journal entries, reconciling payroll-related GL accounts, and analyzing variances in partnership with Accounting • Ensure compliance across jurisdictions, staying up to date on US federal, state, and local regulations as well as Canadian provincial requirements • Own year-end payroll processes, including W-2 T4, and T2200 preparation, reconciliations, and filings, ensuring everything is accurate and submitted on time • Drive process improvements and automation, identifying opportunities to increase efficiency, reduce manual work, and strengthen internal controls • Support audits and SOX compliance efforts, maintaining documentation, executing controls, and partnering with auditors as needed

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience managing payroll in Workday, with Workday Payroll as the primary system of record • Proven experience running full-cycle payroll for US (multi-state) and Canadian employees • Deep understanding of equity compensation payroll, including RSU, NSO, and ISO taxation, processing, and reporting requirements • Experience supporting month-end close, including preparing journal entries and reconciling payroll-related GL accounts • Strong knowledge of US payroll tax laws (federal, state, and local), with working knowledge of Canadian payroll regulations • Advanced proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and managing large datasets • Exceptional attention to detail and a track record of maintaining high levels of accuracy in complex payroll environments • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot issues and identify root causes

🏖️ Benefits

• Excellent ​Medical, ​Dental and ​Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​Medical, ​Dental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans • Flexible time off, ​p​aid holidays, and more • Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more • Excellent Parental benefits including​:​ 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support • Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only) • Employee Stock Purchase Program​ (ESPP)​