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Payroll Incident & Risk Lead

9 hours, 40 minutes ago
Europe, Middle East, Africa
Full-time
Lead
Payroll Specialist
Operations
Monday.com Notion
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Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2019
$496M raised
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Description

  • Design and oversee global risk management frameworks for payroll operations, new product features, and market expansion.
  • Own and evolve the global payroll risk register, including mitigation plans and real-time visibility of critical risks.
  • Lead cross-functional risk assessments with Legal, Product, Payroll Ops, and other teams to address emerging threats and regulatory changes.
  • Drive the use and evolution of the Country Maturity Matrix and other risk scoring tools.
  • Oversee quarterly and ad hoc risk assessments and turn findings into actionable outputs.
  • Serve as the escalation point and lead coordinator for complex or high-impact global payroll incidents.
  • Establish scalable processes for triaging, investigating, resolving, and learning from incidents.
  • Lead and coach teams through root cause analysis, ensuring consistency, quality, and accountability.
  • Own and optimize the incident and RCA database to support trend identification and organizational learning.
  • Mentor and develop Specialists and Managers in risk assessment, incident handling, and RCA facilitation.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in payroll risk management, incident response, compliance, or operations management.
  • Experience in global payroll, finance, SaaS, or regulated industries preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead incident response and implement sustainable, data-driven solutions.
  • Experience designing and scaling risk governance frameworks and tools.
  • Experience mentoring or managing others in a distributed, remote-first environment.
  • Strong project management skills and ability to lead cross-functional initiatives end-to-end.
  • Excellent communication and influence skills, including experience presenting to senior stakeholders.
  • High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and comfort operating in ambiguity and complexity.
  • Familiarity with Notion, Monday.com, and RCA methodologies such as 5 Whys and Fishbone is a plus.
  • Application materials must be submitted in English, and a CV in PDF format is requested; LinkedIn may be used instead of an up-to-date CV.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $49,900 to $112,300 USD.
  • Work from anywhere.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Flexible working hours in an async work environment.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Mental health support services.
  • Stock options.
  • Learning budget.
  • Home office budget and IT equipment.
  • Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.

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