Payroll Analyst

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Position Overview At Okta, we are looking for an experienced, detail-oriented, and analytical Senior Payroll Analyst to join our Americas Payroll team. In this role, you will play a critical part in executing accurate, compliant, and timely semi-monthly payroll operations across multi-state US jurisdictions for over 5,000+ employees, with opportunities to support broader AMER entities (e.g., Canada, Argentina, Mexico and Uruguay). As a subject matter expert in payroll processing, multi-state tax compliance, and benefit/equity reconciliations, you will drive operational excellence, implement workflow automations, and deliver white-glove support to our growing employee base. What You’ll Do (Key Responsibilities) End-to-End Payroll Operations: Own and execute complex bi-weekly multi-state US payroll cycles, ensuring accurate calculations for base salary, variable compensation (sales commissions, bonuses), retro adjustments, and termination payouts. Equity & Off-Cycle Administration: Partner closely with Stock Administration and Accounting to process and reconcile equity-related transactions (RSUs, ESPP, NQSOs) and manage off-cycle payroll runs. Benefits, Deductions & Garnishments: Oversee compliance and execution of specialized deductions, including 401(k) contributions/match audits, FSA/HSA, wage garnishments, and taxable fringe benefits. Tax & Statutory Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to federal, state, and local payroll tax regulations. Mana

About the Team OpenAI’s People team helps us hire, support, and retain the people who will safely build and deploy artificial intelligence that benefits humanity. The People Technology team brings together our enterprise people systems and the engineers building new internal products and AI-powered tools. We work across the People organization to improve the employee experience, simplify operations, and build technology that supports OpenAI’s global growth. About the Role We’re looking for a People Technology Analyst with deep expertise in Workday Absence, Time Tracking, and Benefits. You’ll independently own configuration, ongoing support, and improvements across these areas, including benefits for our US and international employees, from day one. You’ll work closely with Benefits, People Operations, Payroll, Finance, and Engineering to translate complex requirements into reliable systems and straightforward employee experiences. You should be comfortable configuring Workday yourself, tracing issues across modules and integrations, and owning improvements from the first conversation through launch and ongoing support. As part of our combined People Technology team, you’ll also help identify where automation, AI, and custom tools can improve how we work. You’ll bring the domain expertise needed to make those solutions useful and dependable. In this role, you will: Own Workday configuration and improvements across Absence, Time Tracking, and Benefits, including the connections between leave, time worked, and benefits eligibility. Design and maintain absence plans, accruals, eligibility rules, leave processes, time entry rules, calculations, validations, and approvals for a growing global workforce. Partner with the Payroll systems owner to ensure absence, time tracking, and benefits data flows accurately into payroll. Investigate source data issues and test downstream impacts of changes in your areas. Independently own US and international benefits configuration, inc

ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma, and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to ship AI products. THE ROLE We are bringing our people systems in-house on Workday, and we are hiring our first dedicated Workday Analyst to make it excellent. You will join while the implementation is underway, ramp alongside our deployment partner, and own the tenant from go-live onward. This is a hands-on configuration role: you will build business processes, manage security, load data, and test releases yourself, and you will teach others on the People team to do the same as we grow. If you want to shape a Workday environment from its first day in production instead of inheriting years of someone else's decisions, this is that rare opening. RESPONSIBILITIES Own day-to-day Workday configuration: business processes, security groups and roles, custom reports, calculated fields, and tenant settings Build and run EIB loads for data changes, mass updates, and audits Own the twice-yearly Workday release cycle: evaluate new features, regression-test, and roll out changes safely Shadow the implementation build, then take over tenant ownership at go-live Monitor integrations and triage issues with our IT team and vendors Support payroll configuration in partnership with our Accounting team and payroll services provider Field and resolve system requests from employees, managers, and the People team Mentor teammates so Workday administration becomes a team capability, not a single point of failure REQUIREMENTS 6+ years administering a live Workday

About us Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do. Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor . Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. What you’ll do Run the monthly and quarterly commission cycle, from pulling data and calculating commissions to validating payouts, getting approvals and handing off to payroll. Investigate rep questions, document what you find, recommend fixes, and clear issues quickly so reps trust their payouts. Work with Salesforce and data owners to keep source data clean, map new fields and deal types, and find upstream problems before they turn into payout errors. Reconcile and audit payouts against payroll, bookings and plan terms every cycle. Model the cost and payout impact of proposed plan changes and set up new plans in the system. Automate manual steps, tighten SLAs and build reporting on attainment, payout cost and comp effectiveness. What you’ll bring 5+ year

About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers. With teams in Denver, San Francisco, and New York, we support more than 500,000 small businesses nationwide and are building a workplace that reflects the people we serve. All full-time employees receive competitive base pay, benefits, and equity (RSUs) — because everyone who helps build Gusto should share in its success. Offer amounts are determined by role, level, and location. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy . AI is a fundamental part of how work gets done at Gusto. We expect all team members to actively engage with AI tools relevant to their role and grow their fluency as the technology evolves. AI experience requirements vary by role and will be assessed during the interview process. About the Role As part of the Enterprise IT Applications team, the Financial Systems Analyst owns the day-to-day support, configuration, and continuous improvement of the enterprise applications that power Billing, Order-to-Cash (O2C), and Cash Reconciliation. This role keeps these business-critical finance systems running reliably — troubleshooting incidents, fulfilling change requests, and partnering with Finance stakeholders to translate business needs into well-supported application solutions. A core focus of this role is applying AI and automation to modernize how finance applications ar

Who Are We? Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman. P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman. The Opportunity We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Sales Compensation Analyst to own the administration and reconciliation of our sales incentive programs. You will be the primary engine behind our commission cycles, ensuring all employees on variable compensation plans are paid accurately and on time. Your mission is to bring absolute data integrity to our compensation process. You will bridge the gap between CRM data and payroll outputs, resolve discrepancies, and serve as a trusted partner to both Finance and the Sales organization. What You’ll Do Monthly audit of CRM bookings vs. commission workbooks and tools to verify deal values, credits, and contract terms. Administrative Workflow: Manage the end to end commission lifecycle, from data extraction to final payroll delivery. Dispute Resolution: Serve as the first point of contact for commission inquiries, investigating and resolving rep payout questions. Data Hygiene & Auditing: Conduct regular audits of CRM opportunity stages and account ownership to ensure the commission system aligns with current business reality. System Maintenance: Maintain a