Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
- Ensure compliance with US jurisdictional payroll laws for the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom, as well as best practices
- Liaise between 3rd party local/provincial payroll consultants
- Help to ensure optimal functionality with existing and future payroll and related systems
- Resolve all payroll discrepancies and irregularities proactively
- Support the stock plan administration function in the timely withholding/reporting of all equity and other non-cash employee compensation (ESPP, RSUs, NSO and ISO stock options, etc.)
Location:
This position is based at our headquarters in Salt Lake City. You can expect to be on-site 50% of the time.
The Team You’ll Join
As the Global Payroll Manager, you will be an essential member of the Finance Team reporting directly to the Sr Global Payroll Manager. The Finance team is a fun, tightly-knit group. You will leverage the depth and breadth of your payroll knowledge to help increase the sophistication of our existing payroll function during a time of complexity and growth, post IPO. You will also rely on your interpersonal skills to effectively work cross-functionally across the organization. In your role, you will work closely with the Stock Plan Administrator as well as members of the Finance team to ensure all current and future reporting needs are met. You will need self-initiative, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to transparently communicate with a high degree of professionalism.
The Experience You’ll Need
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Human Resources or related field, or equivalent years of experience: professional certificate (e.g. CPP, CPM)
- 5+ years of progressive experience in global payroll within a public company or similar environment
- Previous experience processing Canadian, and United Kingdom, in addition to US payroll
- Proficient knowledge of core, end-to-end payroll processes procedures including SOX controls
- Strong knowledge of multi-state labor laws and relocation gross-ups
- Experience with equity and other non-cash employee compensation (ESPP, RSUs, NSO and ISO stock options, etc.) in the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom
- Experience with robust payroll systems, preferably ADP Workforce Now or similar
How You’ll be Supported
- Sr. Payroll Manager will provide support in training process during first 90 days to ensure quick ramp up
- Ability to attend training courses to learn new skills/technologies
- Ability to work with outside consultants on best practices and complex questions
At Recursion, we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skill and level of experience required for this role, the estimated current annual base range for this role is:
- Developing: $107,000
- Skilled: $118,000
- Expert: $131,000
To learn more about our level within levels, click here.
You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation + our comprehensive benefits package for United States based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salaries and is determined by job, level, and market factors.
During the interview selection process, you will connect with a Talent Acquisition Partner who will be your advocate and ally to ensure you receive the appropriate compensation that meets your needs for your skills, experience, and relevant education/training, while also reviewing our very competitive total rewards package.
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The Values That We Hope You Share:
- We Care: We care about our drug candidates, our Recursionauts, their families, each other, our communities, the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
- We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts, and from failure, is an essential part of how we make progress.
- We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement, making time and space to recover.
- Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity, but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
- We are One Recursion: We operate with a 'company first, team second' mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.
Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.
More About Recursion
Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.
Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.
