Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - UK&I

9 hours, 20 minutes ago
Full-time
Senior
HR and Recruiting
Remote

Remote

Global HR Solutions & Employment Tools for Distributed Teams | Remote Hire international talent in minutes. Remote is the most disruptive global payroll, tax, HR and compliance solution for distributed teams. The easier way to employ internationally 🌍....

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

Description

  • Be the accountable expert for payroll compliance in your jurisdiction(s), owning interpretation, documentation, and implementation of local requirements across processes, systems, and customer workflows.
  • Translate statutory rules, payroll logic, tax calculations, thresholds, and edge cases into structured product and engineering requirements and validate product outputs for legislative accuracy.
  • Partner with Product Design to create compliant, intuitive, and auditable user experiences and review specifications and test logic.
  • Own and deliver multi-country or high-risk audits and regulatory reviews from planning through remediation, and establish scalable audit frameworks.
  • Serve as the primary escalation point for compliance incidents in your region, lead investigations, support incident managers, and drive corrective and preventative actions.
  • Design and implement clear, scalable processes, governance frameworks, controls, SOPs, and monitoring mechanisms to ensure ongoing payroll compliance.
  • Create and maintain high-quality documentation, training materials, and rules guidance; deliver enablement sessions and coach Specialists and Leads to raise compliance capability.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Customer Success to embed compliance into decision-making and support go-to-market and customer escalation initiatives.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in payroll and employment compliance for the assigned country/region, with a strong understanding of how legislation translates into payroll calculations and system logic.
  • Proven track record leading audits, regulatory reviews, or country-level compliance programs.
  • Experience partnering with technical teams to convert statutory rules into product requirements and validating implementation.
  • Demonstrated ability to investigate high-risk or sensitive compliance scenarios and make sound judgments under pressure.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder-influence skills across Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Senior Leadership.
  • Experience mentoring and coaching colleagues and building internal compliance capability.
  • Systems-thinking experience designing frameworks, documentation, processes, and controls that scale across jurisdictions.
  • Comfortable operating in a fast-changing, fully remote, asynchronous work environment.
  • Willingness to follow Remote’s application requirements (submit CV in English; LinkedIn acceptable if no CV) and to complete the recruitment steps including technical assessment and verification checks.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range: $62,400 — $140,000 USD (geo-differentiated, dependent on location and experience).
  • Work from anywhere with a fully remote, asynchronous work model.
  • Flexible paid time off and flexible working hours.
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave.
  • Mental health support services.
  • Stock options (equity) as part of compensation.
  • Learning budget for professional development.
  • Home office budget and IT equipment, plus budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.

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