Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Island operates in the enterprise SaaS and security-adjacent space, where recurring revenue models and global customer footprints tend to create complex payroll, expense, and vendor payment flows. A Payroll and AP Specialist role in this context matters because finance operations are tightly linked to governance, audit readiness, and the reliability of internal controls as the organization expands across geographies.
For a SaaS career, this position builds durable operating muscle: owning end-to-end local payroll while running AP connects day-to-day execution with month-end close discipline and systems accuracy. The listing signals hands-on exposure to cross-functional stakeholders and external providers, plus structured work around reconciliations, accrual support, and compliance. Experience in an ERP like NetSuite is especially portable across SaaS finance teams, where standardization and process design often determine how well the business scales.
This role tends to suit professionals who prefer clear accountability and precision, and who are comfortable being the reference point for payroll questions while coordinating across teams. It also fits someone motivated by improving workflows and maintaining data integrity, rather than purely transactional processing, within an international tech environment anchored in Israeli payroll expertise.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
We’re a team of hungry, high-character professionals from all backgrounds who came together to reinvent work for the modern enterprise.
Island, the Enterprise Browser is the ideal enterprise workplace where work flows freely while remaining fundamentally secure. With the core needs of the enterprise naturally embedded in the browser itself, Island gives organizations complete control, visibility, and governance over the last mile, while delivering the same smooth Chromium-based browser experience users expect.
What we’re building now - it’s not another solution. It’s a whole new chapter for enterprise work.
We are seeking a detail-oriented
Payroll & AP Specialist to join our finance team in a high-growth, international tech environment. Reporting to the Director of Finance, you will independently manage end-to-end
payroll processing in Israel, while overseeing accounts payable (AP) functions, including credit card transactions and employee reimbursements. This role will work closely with multiple internal stakeholders and external service providers, and will also require deep expertise in Israeli labor laws, tax regulations, and bookkeeping principles to ensure full compliance and data integrity across all financial operations.
- Full Cycle Payroll: Manage end-to-end payroll processes for local employees in collaboration with external payroll provider, including monthly payroll processing, employee onboarding to offboarding, statutory and pensions reporting and payments.
- Payroll Operations: Collect, validate and prepare all payroll inputs, from multiple sources, to be shared with the payroll provider. Reconcile payroll data, review and approve provider output to ensure correct processing of the payroll, while supporting payroll accruals and account reconciliations.
- Benefits Administration: Act as the main point of contact for all pension providers and related processes. Monitor vacation, sick leave balances, and handle Miluim-related settlements and claims
- Payroll Support and Compliance: Act as the main point of reference in payroll related questions, while ensuring compliance with local labor laws, tax regulations, and social benefits requirements.
- Accounts Payable: Full responsibility for managing local credit cards, employee reimbursements and travel expenses processes, transactions and reconciliations, including maintenance of approval flows, data integrity and communication with all relevant stakeholders.
- Financial Reporting: Take part in month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing procedures, including reconciliation of credits cards, employee reimbursements and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Process Improvement: Continuously identify and implement improvements to payroll and AP processes and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
- Ad-hoc Projects: Participate in various projects and provide financial analysis as required.
Requirements:
- Certified Payroll Controller – mandatory
- Certified Bookkeeper (Level 1+2) – mandatory
- Minimum 7 years of payroll and AP bookkeeping experience – mandatory
- Experience in working with NetSuite – mandatory
- Fluent English
- Experience working in a global High-Tech company – a significant advantage
