Remote Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - UK&I in Sunderland

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.

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.

What you bring:

• 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own compliance for your country or region.
• Embed legislation into Remote’s product.
• Lead complex audits and compliance programs.
• Lead investigations and incident resolution.
• Design and implement processes and governance frameworks.
• Enablement, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Cross-functional influence & stakeholder partnership.

Practicals:

• You'll report to: Manager, Payroll Strategy and Compliance.
• 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.
• Start date: As soon as possible.

Application process:

• Interview with recruiter.
• Technical Assessment.
• Interview with future manager.
• Interview with Director Bar Raiser.
• Prior employment verification check.

Benefits:

• 16 weeks paid parental leave.
• Mental health support services.
• Stock options.
• Learning budget.
• Home office budget & IT equipment.
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply:

Please fill out the form below and upload your CV in 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.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritising human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience.