Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert, Remote
UK & Ireland
HR solutions for distributed teams
Open for applications
HR solutions for distributed teams
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To open up the world of work for every person, business, and country.
Role
Who you are
- 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 into product requirements
- Strong communicator capable of influencing stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Senior Leadership
- Confident investigator with sound judgment in high-risk or sensitive scenarios
- Mentor and coach who grows the capability of the team around you
- Systems thinker who designs frameworks, documentation, processes, and controls that scale
- Comfortable operating in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
Application process
- How to apply:
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote
- If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead
- Application process:
- Interview with recruiter
- Technical Assessment
- Interview with future manager
- Interview with Director
- Bar Raiser Interview
- Prior employment verification check
- Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis
Our take
The number of companies switching to fully-remote set-up is booming. Aiming to capitalise on this, Remote helps companies of all sizes hire and manage international employees across benefits, taxes, payroll and compliance.
According to Remote, local and international regulations constantly change. Thus, the company's unique selling point is that its law attorneys and HR specialists are focused on supervising regulations on a daily basis and ensuring that the clients avoid expensive compliance mistakes. Remote also differentiates itself through its network of local legal entities that cover all of the countries it offers services in to ensure the clients receive the best protection in the industry. Moreover, the company offers a platform for distributed teams that makes it easy for companies to onboard and pay international contractors and employees.
Remote's history of funding - that helped secure its $3Billion valuation - has supported expansion across markets, as well as being used to expand partnerships and integrations. Further development of its tool suite can be expected, as the company pushes to be the first name in distributed HR.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
43% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2022
$300m
SERIES C
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES B
Total funding: $496m
Company benefits
- Unlimited personal time off
- Paid parental leave
- Co-working allowance
- Flexible working hours
- Learning budget
- Mental health support
- Company stock options
- Home office setup
- Celebratory allowances
- Branded swag
- Other country-specific benefits
Company HQ
Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Job van der Voort
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Researcher at Champalimaud Foundation for 1 year and Co-Founder & CTO at JAXONS for 1 year.
Marcelo Lebre
(Co-Founder & President)Previously Chief Technology Officer at Faber Ventures for 1 year and VP of Engineering at Unbabel for 2 years
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