Payroll Manager

The role

The Payroll Manager will own end-to-end payroll operations for over 1,000 W-2 employees across multiple states. This role involves running payroll in Rippling, managing payroll-tax accounts, leading reconciliations, and building AI-enabled automated processes.

What you will do

• Own scheduled and off-cycle payroll runs in Rippling for 1,000+ W-2 employees
• Perform pre- and post-payroll reviews, variance analysis, and funding validation
• Reconcile payroll to bank, tax, benefits, retirement-plan, and general-ledger records
• Administer payments to practice owners and other nonemployees
• Manage federal, state, and local payroll-tax accounts
• Oversee filings and payments completed by Rippling
• Lead quarter-end and year-end activities
• Lead recurring insurance, 401(k), and workers' compensation reconciliations and audits
• Serve as Rippling system owner for configurations, permissions, and reporting
• Design and deploy agentic AI workflows and automate recurring work

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on U.S. payroll experience
• 2+ years independently owning full-cycle, multi-state payroll for 500+ W-2 employees
• Deep command of federal, state, and local payroll tax
• Experience with quarter-end and year-end processing, payroll accounting, internal controls, and general-ledger reconciliation
• Hands-on experience with benefits, 401(k), and workers' compensation reconciliations or audits
• Rippling or another modern payroll and HRIS platform
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets
• Confidence with large payroll datasets
• Demonstrated use of AI or automation tools to build something that shipped

Nice to have

• Direct Rippling administration or implementation experience
• Healthcare, ABA, multi-clinic, multi-entity, or large hourly-workforce experience
• Experience with practice-owner or other nonemployee payment programs at scale
• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation
• Experience building knowledge bases, workflow automation, or AI-enabled tools in a payroll or finance context

Benefits

• Own and shape a mission-critical function end to end
• Build a modern, AI-first payroll operation
• Work with meaningful autonomy and direct exposure to company leadership

About the company

Finni Health is building the operational and technology infrastructure that powers the next generation of behavioral healthcare. They partner with ABA clinic owners to help them build thriving practices while improving access to care for children and families.