Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert

Remote

Payroll Compliance Expert ensuring compliance with employment legislation for payroll operations at Remote. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to embed compliance into global payroll processes.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 $62,400 - $140,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own compliance for your country or region
Ensure local requirements are correctly interpreted, documented, and implemented across processes, systems, and customer workflows.
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.
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.
Serve as the primary escalation point for compliance issues in your region, supporting Incident Managers to resolve incidents swiftly and effectively.
Create clear, scalable, and documented processes for payroll compliance operations.
Develop controls, SOPs, and monitoring mechanisms to ensure ongoing adherence.
Build training materials, guidance, and rules documentation to upskill internal teams.
Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Customer Success to ensure compliance is embedded into decision-making.
Support go-to-market, customer escalations and expansion initiatives with clear compliance guidance.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.
Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities and AI fluency.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

payroll complianceemployment complianceaudit frameworksstatutory rulestax calculationsprocess documentationcontrols developmentSOPsmonitoring mechanismsregulatory reviews

Soft Skills

strong communicatorinfluencing stakeholdersconfident investigatorsound judgmentmentorcoachingsystems thinkeradaptabilityproblem-solvingteam capability growth