Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert

🕒 May 26

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 $62.4k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧾 Payroll

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Remote

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501 - 1000 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

HR Tech • SaaS • Enterprise

Remote is a global HR platform that simplifies the process of hiring, onboarding, managing, and paying employees and contractors worldwide. It offers comprehensive solutions for recruitment, payroll management, contractor management, and compliance. The platform supports businesses in handling HR tasks seamlessly and efficiently, ensuring fast and compliant payouts, providing employer of record services, and facilitating employee benefits and equity offerings. Additionally, Remote integrates with various HR systems, allowing for a flexible, scalable, and reliable solution for businesses looking to expand globally.

📋 Description

• 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

• 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

• 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