Payroll Incident & Risk Lead

1 hour, 53 minutes ago
Remote

Remote

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Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2019
$496M raised

Description

  • Design and oversee global risk management frameworks for payroll operations, new product features, and market expansion.
  • Own and maintain the global payroll risk register with up-to-date risks and mitigation plans.
  • Lead cross-functional risk assessments with Legal, Product, Payroll Ops, and other operational teams.
  • Drive the evolution and use of the Country Maturity Matrix and other risk scoring tools.
  • Oversee quarterly and ad hoc risk assessments and ensure scalable, actionable outputs.
  • Serve as the escalation point and lead coordinator for complex or high-impact global payroll incidents.
  • Establish and improve processes for triaging, investigating, resolving, and learning from incidents.
  • Lead and coach teams through Root Cause Analysis and maintain consistency and accountability in RCA practices.
  • Own and optimize the incident and RCA database to identify trends and support strategic learning.
  • Mentor and develop specialists and managers, and deliver training and simulation exercises to strengthen risk and incident practices.

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in payroll risk management, incident response, compliance, or operations management, preferably in global payroll, finance, SaaS, or regulated industries.
  • 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 with the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives end to end.
  • Excellent communication and influence skills, including 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.
  • Ability to apply in English and submit a CV in PDF format.
  • Willingness to work in a fully remote, async environment with a preference for candidates in EMEA.

Benefits

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

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