Senior Manager, Payroll - NYC

Job description

The Senior Payroll Manager is responsible for ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing, with a strong focus on wage and tax reporting, payroll transformation initiatives, and team leadership. The ideal candidate combines deep technical payroll expertise with project management capabilities and a results-driven mindset. Overall, the Senior Payroll Manager will be tasked to lead and optimize payroll operations across the United States, Canada, and Latin America (LATAM).

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

What You’ll Do:

• Manage payroll resources and vendors across the U.S., Canada and LATAM (Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia) countries, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance of end to end payroll with local regulations
• Manage wage and tax reporting, including quarterly and annual filings (e.g., W-2s, and applicable LATAM reporting requirements)
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local payroll laws, as well as country-specific regulations across LATAM
• Partner with Legal, HR, and Finance to stay ahead of regulatory changes and implement necessary updates
• Liaise with payroll counterparts in APAC and EMEA to ensure global consistency of Datadog’s payroll processes and practices.
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