Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - UK&I

What this job can offer you

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 organization. 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.

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: 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

• You'll report to: Manager, Payroll Strategy and Compliance
• Team: 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

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are async)
• 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 coworking spaces

The annual salary range for this full‑time position is $62,400—$140,000 USD.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under‑represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.