Payroll Accounting Manager
About Xaira Therapeutics
Xaira is an innovative biotech startup focused on leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The company is leading the development of generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics, enabling the creation of medicines against historically hard-to-drug molecular targets. It is also developing foundation models for biology and disease to enable better target elucidation and patient stratification. Collectively, these technologies aim to continually enable the identification of novel therapies and to improve success in drug development. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London.
About the Role
As the Payroll Accounting Manager, reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, you are responsible for overseeing all aspects of payroll administration and the accounting activities that support it — ensuring employees are paid accurately, on time, and in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations, while also ensuring payroll transactions are properly recorded, reconciled, and audit-ready in the general ledger. This role manages payroll processes, maintains payroll systems, ensures compliance with tax and labor laws, administers payroll-related benefits and deductions, owns the payroll accounting
