Remote - Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert

• Own compliance for your country or region • Be the accountable expert for payroll compliance in your jurisdiction(s). • 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. • Practicals • Practicals • You'll report to: Manager, Payroll Strategy and Compliance • You'll report to: • Team: Payroll Strategy and Compliance • Team: • Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritize applications from the following locations as we encourage our teams to diversify; United Kingdom, Ireland • Location • Start date: As soon as possible • Start date: • Application process • Application process • Interview with recruiter • Technical Assessment • Interview with future manager • Interview with Director • Bar Raiser Interview • Prior employment verification check • Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries. • At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis. • The annual salary range for this full-time position is • $62,400 - $140,000 USD