Payroll Strategy & Compliance Expert
Remote
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in Europe
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Salary
💰 $1 - $2 per year
About the role
- Own compliance for your country or region
- Ensure local requirements are correctly interpreted, documented, and implemented across processes, systems, and customer workflows.
- Embed legislation into Remote’s product
- Translate statutory rules, payroll logic, tax calculations, thresholds, and edge cases into structured requirements for Product and Engineering.
- Partner with Product Design to create user experiences that are compliant, intuitive, and auditable.
- Review specifications, test logic, and validate product outputs to ensure legislative accuracy.
- Lead complex audits and compliance programs
- Own and deliver multi-country or high-risk audits from planning through remediation.
- Establish audit frameworks that scale across new and existing jurisdictions.
- Identify root causes and drive systemic improvements.
- Lead investigations and incident resolution
- Serve as the primary escalation point for compliance issues in your region, supporting Incident Managers to resolve incidents swiftly and effectively.
- Partner cross-functionally to resolve incidents quickly and implement permanent corrective and preventative actions.
- Design and implement processes and governance frameworks
- Create clear, scalable, and documented processes for payroll compliance operations.
- Develop controls, SOPs, and monitoring mechanisms to ensure ongoing adherence.
- Align global policies with regional requirements and drive consistency across markets.
- Enablement, documentation, and knowledge sharing
- Build training materials, guidance, and rules documentation to upskill internal teams.
- Deliver quarterly enablement, lead learning sessions, and coach Specialists and Leads.
- Maintain high-quality documentation for compliance rules, workflows, and system logic.
- Cross-functional influence & stakeholder partnership
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Customer Success to ensure compliance is embedded into decision-making.
- Achieve ≥90% stakeholder satisfaction by being responsive, proactive, and solutions-oriented.
- Support go-to-market, customer escalations and expansion initiatives with clear compliance guidance.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in payroll, employment compliance for your country/region — and a strong understanding of how legislation translates into payroll calculations and system logic.
- Proven record leading audits, regulatory reviews, or country-level compliance programs.
- Experience partnering with technical teams to convert statutory rules into product requirements.
- Strong communicator capable of influencing stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Senior Leadership.
- Confident investigator with sound judgment in high-risk or sensitive scenarios.
- Mentor and coach who grows the capability of the team around you.
- Systems thinker who designs frameworks, documentation, processes, and controls that scale.
- Comfortable operating in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment.
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
payroll complianceaudit frameworksregulatory reviewsstatutory rulestax calculationsprocess designcontrols developmentSOPsmonitoring mechanismsincident resolution
Soft skills
strong communicatorinfluencing stakeholdersconfident investigatorsound judgmentmentoringcoachingsystems thinkingproactivesolutions-orientedresponsive