Payroll Policy & Compliance Lead

Summary

Join Remote as the Global Payroll Policy & Compliance Lead and build automated compliance tracking frameworks and real-time compliance dashboards. This critical role ensures payroll operations and product development align with global regulations, translating complex regulatory updates into actionable insights. You will proactively embed compliance into payroll systems, mitigating risks and supporting business growth. The position requires extensive experience in global payroll product compliance, employment law, tax compliance, or payroll operations, along with a strong understanding of global payroll regulations. You will design automated compliance tracking frameworks and compliance dashboards, manage stakeholders across various teams, and analyze legal documents to provide clear recommendations. Remote offers competitive benefits, including flexible paid time off, flexible working hours, 16 weeks of paid parental leave, and more. The base salary range is €47,100 - €52,950 EUR.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in global payroll product compliance, employment law, tax compliance, or payroll operations
• Strong understanding of global payroll regulations, tax laws, CBAs, and social security policies
• Experience in legislation tracking, regulatory intelligence, or compliance implementation across multiple jurisdictions
• Proven ability to design automated compliance tracking frameworks and compliance dashboards for real-time monitoring of payroll risks and legislative updates
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience working cross-functionally between Product, Engineering, Payroll Operations, and Risk teams
• Highly data-driven, proficient in compliance tracking tools, reporting software, and automation frameworks (e.g SQL, Google Scripts, Notion)
• Detail-oriented, with the ability to analyse legal documents and translate them into clear, actionable product and operational recommendations
• Writes and speaks fluent English

Responsibilities

• Design automated compliance tracking frameworks, ensuring proactive identification of legal changes across multiple jurisdictions to ensure all regulatory changes are documented and actioned efficiently
• Work closely with Legal and RiskCom teams to monitor and analyse global payroll regulations, including tax laws, employment regulations, CBAs, social security policies, and real-time payroll reporting mandates
• Work closely with RiskCom & Ops teams to ensure legislative updates are reviewed and incorporated into payroll operations
• Maintain centralised tracking tools and databases to ensure all regulatory changes are documented and actioned efficiently
• Work closely with the Product Strategic Lead to ensure regulatory changes are seamlessly integrated into payroll technology and system updates
• Provide executive briefings, compliance reports, and stakeholder updates to ensure leadership has full visibility of regulatory risks
• Partner with internal risk teams to ensure that compliance tracking aligns with SOC2, GDPR, and other global regulatory standards
• Conduct deep-dive research into complex payroll legislation topics, such as CBAs, employment tax reforms, minimum wage indexing, and social security policy changes
• Develop white papers, regulatory summaries, and internal guidance to help teams navigate complex payroll compliance environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in payroll technology or payroll system compliance (a plus)
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

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