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Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert

PayrollPayrollFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

47 days ago

Salary

$130K - $146K / year

English

Job Description

• 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.

Job 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

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