Sr. Global Payroll & Equity Specialist

Fundraise Up is a global fundraising platform aimed at making donations to nonprofits fast and accessible. The Sr. Global Payroll & Equity Specialist will establish payroll and equity operations across a distributed workforce, ensuring compliance and accuracy while shaping critical functions within the company.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end payroll delivery for all non-GTM employees globally, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and consistency across multiple jurisdictions, entities, and EOR partners
• Establish and manage a standardized payroll calendar, including clear cutoffs, review cycles, funding timelines, and disbursement schedules
• Partner with Revenue Operations to incorporate finalized GTM payroll inputs and execute payments within a unified, controlled framework
• Ensure compliance with local payroll regulations, tax requirements, and statutory obligations across all countries of operation, coordinating with external providers and advisors
• Manage relationships with EOR partners, including funding requests, reconciliations, issue resolution, and establishing a forward-looking funding cadence aligned with Finance and Treasury
• Administer equity programs end-to-end, including new grants, exercises, and terminations, while maintaining cap table accuracy and integrity
• Partner with Finance and Legal on equity-related processes, including 409A valuations and ensuring alignment with ASC 718 reporting requirements
• Design and implement a scalable payroll and equity controls framework, including independent review, general ledger reconciliation, variance analysis, and audit-ready documentation
• Serve as the primary point of contact for internal and external audits related to payroll and equity
• Act as a trusted internal partner, supporting employee questions on payroll and equity, and collaborating with People Ops on onboarding, offboarding, and compensation changes
• At Fundraise Up, AI is a default tool, not an experimental one. We expect every team member to actively use AI in their day-to-day work, identify where AI can change the shape of problems in their function, and grow their fluency as the tools evolve. You should already be using AI meaningfully in your work and understand where it adds value and how it can improve the way you operate