Senior Payroll Analyst

About Glean:

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry’s most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.

At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean’s agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry’s broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level.

Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Bloomberg’s AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner’s Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we’re helping the world’s largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.

If you’re excited to shape how the world works, you’ll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. You’ll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Senior Payroll Analyst with a strong background in US payroll operations.

The Senior US Payroll Analyst plays a critical role in delivering accurate, compliant, and timely payroll across the US & CA workforce. This position ensures seamless execution of end‑to‑end payroll activities while maintaining adherence to federal, state, and local regulations. The Senior Payroll Analyst also drives process improvement, supports audits, and collaborates with HR, Finance, Accounting, Legal and external partners to resolve complex payroll issues.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead full‑cycle bi‑monthly payroll processing for multi‑state US employees and CA employees, ensuring accuracy for all pay types including regular, overtime, bonuses, commissions, retro payouts, and one‑time transactions
• Conduct rigorous pre‑ and post‑payroll audits to verify pay, taxes, deductions, and compliance prior to disbursement.
• Reconcile payroll results with HRIS data and general ledger, ensuring alignment with accounting and finance requirements.
• Maintain deep knowledge of US payroll compliance requirements including federal, state, and local tax laws, wage and hour regulations, and reporting obligations.
• Prepare and support payroll tax filings, compliance reports, and audits, and assist with remediation of tax notices and discrepancies.
• Ensure accurate handling of garnishments, benefit deductions, and statutory withholdings in payroll processes
• Senior Payroll Analyst liaison with third‑party payroll vendors, tax advisors, and compliance partners, ensuring SLAs are met and issues are resolved efficiently.
• Develop and maintain strong payroll process documentation countrywise, including standard operating procedures (SOPs) and internal controls
• Partner with HR, Finance, Accounting, Legal, Benefits and People Operations teams to ensure seamless payroll operations and alignment with business needs.
• Provide expert payroll support to employees and internal teams, responding to inquiries and resolving issues with professionalism and accuracy
• Prepare and present analytical payroll reports and insights to Leadership.
• Experience with equity compensation, stock plans, or global payroll processes
• Prior experience in SOX / internal controls environments or payroll transformation projects.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum 8+ years of progressive payroll experience, with a strong emphasis on multi‑state US payroll processing and compliance
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise payroll systems (e.g., Workday, ADP, Rippling)
• Advanced proficiency in payroll systems, Excel/Google Sheets (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, formulas)
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, tight deadlines, and high‑volume payroll cycles
• Payroll certification such as CPP (Certified Payroll Professional) or FPC (Fundamental Payroll Certification) is an added advantage.
• Strong understanding of US payroll regulations (FLSA, 401k, Garnishment, payroll related benefits deductions, IRS guidelines, multi-state tax compliance).
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Attention to detail and ability to handle confidential information with integrity.

Location:

• Bangalore (The role is Hybrid)

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organisation. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.