Payroll Compliance Expert

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!)

and all of our positions are fully remote.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

As a GP Compliance Expert
, you are the owner of payroll compliance for your country or region. You hold deep expertise in local legislation and apply it across everything from audits to product design. You’ll translate complex rules into scalable processes, systems, and documentation — ensuring Remote continuously meets (and anticipates) regulatory standards.

You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Operations, and Legal to embed compliance into the foundations of our global payroll platform. You’ll lead investigations and incident resolution, drive continuous improvement, and mentor teams to raise compliance capability across the organisation.

This role blends subject‑matter expertise with strategic systems thinking — making you a key architect in how Remote builds compliant, automated global payroll at scale.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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…