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The easier way to employ globally. Remote builds belonging for your team with payroll, benefits, & compliance solutions.
Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert
Location
Georgia
Posted
84 days ago
Salary
$62.4K - $140.4K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert
Remote
• 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. • Create clear, scalable, and documented processes for payroll compliance operations. • Develop controls, SOPs, and monitoring mechanisms to ensure ongoing adherence. • Build training materials, guidance, and rules documentation to upskill internal teams. • Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Customer Success to ensure compliance is embedded into decision-making.
Job Requirements
- 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.
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 co-working spaces
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