Senior Global Payroll Compliance Specialist

Overview

Global Payroll Compliance Expert – France

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Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together workforce systems like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers, enabling management and automation of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

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 leading investors and was named one of Americas best startup employers by Forbes. We prioritize candidate safety and will only send official communications from @Rippling.com addresses. Rippling is expanding its Global Payroll product and France is a key market with highly complex payroll and regulatory requirements. We seek a Payroll Compliance Expert with deep expertise in French payroll, DSN, and social security rules to support Product Compliance and help build a scalable, accurate, and compliant payroll experience for French customers.

What You Will Do

• Produce high-quality payroll compliance briefs: create detailed, accurate briefs for complex features and validate briefs drafted by junior specialists to maintain consistency and regulatory rigor
• Ensure quality and consistency across compliance deliverables: produce and validate product-ready requirements, guidance, and documentation
• Regulatory expertise: ensure our product remains compliant with payroll regulations, DSN standards, and evolving French social security rules
• Mentorship & coaching: support growth and development of the Product Compliance team by coaching less experienced specialists
• Decision-making support: provide expert guidance on payroll edge cases, regulatory constraints, and implementation feasibility
• Improve processes and drive scalability: identify inefficiencies in compliance workflows and support automation to enhance reliability and reduce manual work
• Contribute to roadmap prioritization and long-term planning: identify high-impact compliance needs and upcoming risks and support prioritization based on regulatory evolution, customer issues, and operational trends
• Cross-functional leadership: partner with Payroll Operations and Product to align and ensure smooth implementation of complex requirements

Qualifications

• Extensive payroll expertise: 10+ years of hands-on experience in French payroll, ideally in a payroll provider or outsourcing environment
• DSN mastery: deep expertise in DSN, social contributions, tax rules, and payroll edge cases
• Compliance leadership: ability to interpret regulatory requirements and guide expert-level decisions
• Project management: ability to plan, anticipate risks, structure roadmaps, and manage multiple priorities
• Experience mentoring or supporting junior team members
• Analytical & problem-solving skills: ability to identify risks, resolve complex scenarios, and propose scalable solutions
• Cross-team collaboration: strong communication skills and comfort working with Product, Engineering, and Payroll Ops
• Tech-savvy: experience with payroll tools, automation initiatives, or SaaS environments is a plus
• Languages: full fluency in French and English

Employment & Location

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Human Resources
• Industries: Software Development

Join us in shaping the future of global payroll at Rippling!