Payroll Manager

WHY NEW ENGEN?

At New Engen, we help brands grow—not just bigger, but smarter. We’re a digital marketing agency built to drive meaningful impact across the entire customer journey, blending media, creative, analytics, influencer, and retail strategies into performance-driven campaigns.

Some clients partner with us through long-term agency relationships. Others tap into specialized solutions—like Donut Studios, our in-house creative studio for platform-native and short-form content, or Acorn Creator Suite, our influencer marketing solution built for retail impact. While each solution brings its own focus and flavor, they’re all part of how we deliver for our clients, together, as one team.

We’re a collaborative group of strategists, creatives, analysts, and makers who are all in on helping brands—and each other—thrive. We work hard, stay humble, and build with purpose.

• Own Payroll Execution and Oversight Review and manage accurate, timely payroll processing across a growing, multi-state U.S. employee population, with exposure to global payroll coordination. Partner closely with senior payroll staff to review payroll runs, validate deductions, and ensure accuracy before and after processing.
• Serve as the Connector Between Systems Act as a key link between Rippling and Net Suite, ensuring payroll data flows cleanly into financial systems. Investigate discrepancies, reconcile payroll activity, and explain variances clearly to Finance and People Ops partners.
• Partner Cross-Functionally Work closely with Finance, People Ops, and external vendors to resolve payroll-related questions, support compliance needs, and improve coordination across payroll, benefits, and tax workflows. Collaborate with People Ops to address benefit-related discrepancies and improve controls.
• Drive Accuracy, Controls, and Investigation Own payroll reconciliations, investigations, and issue resolution, including payroll deductions, benefits, tax with holdings, and employee-level variances. Ensure payroll issues are identified, documented, and resolved rather than left unaddressed.
• Support Process Improvements Identify opportunities to improve payroll workflows, documentation, and system usage, particularly within Rippling. Partner with internal teams and vendor representatives to resolve system issues and contribute to future payroll system improvements as needed.

• Experience managing or reviewing U.S. multi-state payroll in a complex, fast-growing organization, with a strong understanding of payroll operations and controls.
• Hands‑on experience working in modern payroll systems and HRIS platforms, with strong preference for Rippling expertise.
• Comfort reviewing payroll output, identifying discrepancies, and investigating issues across employee‑level and financial data.
• Working knowledge of payroll compliance, tax regulations, and benefit deductions, with the ability to flag risks and elevate appropriately.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills, with the ability to connect payroll data to downstream financial reporting.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to partner effectively across Finance and People Ops teams.
• Organized, solutions‑oriented approach with comfort managing recurring payroll timelines and ad‑hoc investigations simultaneously.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; payroll certification is a plus but not required.

• Remote or hybrid work environment with flexible hours
• Unlimited PTO + company holidays
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and disability coverage
• Life & AD&D insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid parental leave & family support
• Pet care perks & insurance
• Learning & career development programs
• Commuter & transit benefits
• Exclusive employee discounts

Salary Range: $90,000-$105,000 annually

The range is applicable for the labor market where the role is intended to be hired. Final base salary is directly related to each candidates' qualifications and experience uniquely.

New Engen is proud to have offices in Seattle, New York, and Northwest Arkansas, each one anchoring teams that drive creativity, collaboration, and culture. But great work isn’t limited to those zip codes. We also support a distributed team of remote employees across the country, giving people the flexibility to do their best work wherever they are.

We currently hire full‑time employees in the following states:
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Let’s Build What’s Next Together – If you’re passionate about media and eager to make a meaningful impact with a team that’s all in, we’d love to hear from you.