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Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert
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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