Global Payroll Operations Specialist - Brazil

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

We're looking for an experienced payroll specialist to join Rippling's Global Payroll Operations team. We are rapidly expanding Rippling to serve the needs of employees and employers all over the world. Our Global Payroll Operations team plays a critical role in ensuring the success of our global payroll products, which are natively built and fully integrated with Rippling's broader suite of products.

As Rippling expands its product offerings globally, there is a critical business need for Rippling to develop new muscles around global product operations and country-specific payroll expertise outside of the US.

This role, Global Payroll Operations Specialist (Brazil), is a critical hire for the Global Payroll Operations team that will be fully dedicated to developing and executing these new capabilities in Brazil. This role will own all operational payroll aspects for Brazil, relationships with our external partners, and drive our expansion into new customer segments in-market. This role also plays a key part in onboarding new Brazilian customers, bringing hands-on implementation experience alongside critical country-specific payroll expertise to support the development of our natively built payroll software.

This is an exciting role that requires significant cross-departmental engagement with a major impact on the product and customer experience.

This position will operate in a bilingual English/Portugese environment. To help us assess your English communication skills, please submit your resume in English.

What you will do

Execute timely payroll, filings, and payments for all customers in Brazil

Support customer implementations in Brazil, including data migration, parallel runs, and go-live validation for new payroll customers

Drive issue resolution and communication with Brazilian government agencies (eSocial, INSS, Receita Federal, FGTS, Caixa) and partners; you will directly interface with our customers and resolve issues on their behalf

Work closely with Global Payroll Engineering and Product teams to ensure that:

Natively built payroll software supports key Brazilian payroll and tax compliance requirements (eSocial, INSS, FGTS, 13th salary, férias, rescisão)

Internal tooling requirements are properly prioritized and implemented

What you will need

Minimum of 4+ years in a Brazilian payroll processing role, and minimum of 2+ years in a client facing role

Strong Brazil payroll experience

Hands-on expertise running local payroll software, particularly Senior, including configuration, troubleshooting, and validating outputs

Experience supporting or leading customer implementations/onboarding in Brazil

Process payroll activities in accordance with company guidelines, social security, legislation, and local tax requirements