Senior Associate, Payroll

Location: Westport, Connecticut; onsite four days per week

Salary: $165,000–$250,000 annual wage range, inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus; expected base salary is 80%–90% of the range.

Company

hirify.global Associates is an asset management firm serving global institutional investors through rigorous investment analysis, technology, and financial strategy.

What you will do

• Run and review end-to-end bi-weekly payroll, including validation, reconciliation, balancing, and analysis of payroll reports.
• Resolve payroll, withholding, and employee pay issues with internal teams, outsourced partners, and tax agencies.
• Administer complex compensation programs, including deferred compensation, bonuses, equity, fringe benefits, and imputed income.
• Develop employee-facing pay communications, documentation, FAQs, and self-service tools.
• Redesign payroll workflows, reduce manual work, and support the technology roadmap, automation, reporting, audits, and controls.
• Act as a cross-trained partner to the Director, Payroll, collaborating with Tax, Technology, HR, Treasury, Accounting, and business teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, HR, Business, or a related field.
• At least five years of experience in operations, HR, finance operations, or a related function.
• Experience improving processes and ideally leading change or transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical skills and advanced Excel experience with large datasets and complex scenarios.
• Strong communication, collaboration, service orientation, ownership, discretion, integrity, and attention to detail.
• Ability to work onsite four days per week at the Westport, Connecticut office.

Nice to have

• Payroll or payroll-tax expertise.
• Knowledge of New York and Connecticut withholding, reciprocity, and wage-sourcing rules.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture centered on excellence, continuous improvement, transparency, truth, and meritocracy.
• Opportunities for professional development, personal growth, and challenging work.
• Competitive benefits package.
• Support for a diverse community of independent thinkers and rigorous problem-solving.