Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert, Remote
Benelux
€90.4-101.7k
+ Stock options
HR solutions for distributed teams
Open for applications
HR solutions for distributed teams
1001+ employees
Open for applications
€90.4-101.7k
+ Stock options
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, and tax compliance across multiple countries or markets
- Proven track record of leading complex audits, regulatory reviews, or cross-border compliance programs
- Trusted escalation point and subject matter expert in high-risk or strategic matters
- Strategic communicator who influences stakeholders across all levels — including product, legal, and senior leadership
- Confident mentor and coach with experience developing team capability through structured learning and feedback
- A systems thinker — able to scale solutions, frameworks, and documentation with clarity and impact
- Adept at navigating ambiguity and fast-changing environments with adaptability and integrity
- Comfortable leading initiatives across async, multicultural, and remote-first teams
What the job involves
- As a GP Compliance Expert, you are a regional or domain-level authority in payroll and employment compliance
- You’ll lead complex audits, shape scalable governance frameworks, and coach Specialists/Leads to elevate performance across multiple countries or high-impact regions
- Your expertise will drive strategic outcomes, align global policies, and scale Remote’s compliance capabilities across teams, systems, and stakeholders
- Strategic audit ownership: Lead complex audits across multiple countries or domains with 100% on time delivery
- Compliance Investigations: Support compliance investigations, partnering with key stakeholders and embedding learnings/new processes to resolve as quickly as possible
- Governance frameworks: Design and implement scalable best practices or frameworks to elevate compliance maturity
- Strategic initiatives - lead strategic initiatives globally, partnering with teams such as product, engineering & customer success to embed compliance into everything we do
- Policy alignment: Ensure alignment with key compliance policies across countries/markets
- Incident resolution: Resolve high-priority risks/issues and proactively embed those learnings
- Documentation excellence: Maintain core compliance documentation
- Mentorship: Deliver mentorship or coaching as a compliance expert; improving team growth year over year
- Stakeholder influence: Achieve ≥90% positive feedback from cross-functional stakeholders on compliance partnership
- Enablement & communication: Tailor messaging and materials to audience needs; support quarterly coaching/upskilling documentation
- Influence Remote’s global strategy for audits, frameworks, enablement, and policy alignment
- Lead regional or cross-regional initiatives that define how global payroll compliance scales
- Mentor and develop future leaders across the compliance team
- Shape thought leadership through publications, knowledge sharing, and conference visibility
- Drive innovation in frameworks, automation, and knowledge systems that make compliance a competitive advantage
- We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings)
Application process
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with future manager
- Interview with team members (no managers present)
- Bar Raiser Interview
- Prior employment verification check
- 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
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 they offer services for 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
(CEO)Previously Researcher at Champalimaud Foundation for 1 year and Co-Founder & CTO at JAXONS for 1 year.
Marcelo Lebre
(COO)Previously Chief Technology Officer at Faber Ventures for 1 year and VP of Engineering at Unbabel for 2 years
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