Payroll Incident & Risk Lead
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in Europe
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Salary
💰 $49,900 - $112,300 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Spearhead the strategic development and execution of global payroll risk and incident management.
- Lead critical programs to enhance our risk posture, drive resolution of high-impact incidents and partner across teams.
- Mentor team members, evolve frameworks, and influence how Remote grows with control and confidence.
- Drive the strategic use and evolution of the Country Maturity Matrix and other risk scoring tools.
- Oversee quarterly and ad-hoc risk assessments, ensuring accurate, scalable processes and actionable outputs.
- Serve as the escalation point and lead coordinator for complex or high-impact payroll incidents globally.
- Establish scalable, high-trust processes for triaging, investigating, and learning from incidents.
- Mentor and develop Specialists and Managers in risk assessment, incident handling, and RCA facilitation.
Requirements
- Proven extensive experience in payroll risk management, incident response, compliance, or operations management preferably in global payroll, finance, SaaS or regulated industries.
- Demonstrated ability to lead incident response and implement sustainable, data-driven solutions.
- Expertise in designing and scaling risk governance frameworks and tools.
- Experience mentoring or managing others in a distributed, remote-first environment.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives end-to-end.
- Excellent communication and influence skills, including experience presenting to senior stakeholders.
- High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and comfort operating in ambiguity and complexity.
- Familiarity with tools like Notion, Monday.com and RCA methodologies (e.g., 5 Whys, Fishbone) is a plus.
Benefits
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
payroll risk managementincident responsecomplianceoperations managementrisk governance frameworksdata-driven solutionsrisk assessmentsRCA facilitation
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringproject managementcommunicationinfluenceemotional intelligencesound judgmentoperating in ambiguity