Payroll Lead

The role

You will own and shape the payroll operating model, deciding whether to use outsourced service centers or bring the process in-house. You will build an automated payroll operation and manage payroll accounting, taxes, and equity event treatments.

What you will do

• Shape and own how payroll is delivered
• Build payroll into a tight, reliable, highly automated operation
• Own payroll accounting including journals, accruals and reconciliations
• Drive automation of payroll
• Own the payroll and tax treatment of equity events
• Own payroll taxes and compliance
• Maintain payroll controls and an auditable trail
• Support external audit
• Grow into Global Payroll Lead

Required qualifications

• Expert, current, hands-on Swedish payroll knowledge
• Skatteverket employer reporting (AGI)
• Employer contributions
• Expert tax / SINK
• Pensions and benefits
• Working knowledge of LAS and BFL
• Proven track record owning payroll
• 8+ years of payroll experience
• Strong payroll accounting skills
• Exposure to equity / share-based compensation payroll and benefit-in-kind taxation
• Excellent English communication skills

Nice to have

• Swedish a strong plus
• International or multi-entity payroll exposure (UK, US, EOR)
• A deeply AI-pilled way of working

About the company

Lovable is a software creation platform. It is a fast-growing AI company building a generational company from Stockholm.