Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert

Summary

Join Remote as a Payroll Risk and Compliance Expert for the Eastern Europe Region and make a meaningful impact in the global employment space. This exciting opportunity involves ensuring payroll compliance with governmental wage tax laws and social security requirements in the region. You will conduct risk reviews, identify discrepancies, and recommend corrective actions. The ideal candidate possesses strong legislation expertise in Eastern Europe, senior payroll experience, and proven risk identification and mitigation skills. The role requires proficiency in data manipulation, excellent time management, and strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Remote offers a fully remote position with competitive compensation and benefits.

Requirements

• Strong Legislation expertise in the Eastern Europe region
• Experience in a senior payroll role within an in-house payroll environment processing payroll or being in an payroll audit, compliance role
• Understands the approach taken by local authorities and has proven track record of communicating with authorities to resolve matters
• Has had exposure to local authority investigations and audits
• Experience in making recommendations for process improvements and ensuring that they are implemented
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership of tasks
• Proficiency in data manipulation (eg sql, Excel)
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• An analytical mindset with great problem-solving abilities
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, international work environment with a passion for making an impact
• Is a productivity geek and will constantly think of ways to improve and speed up their work
• You understand the need and ideal to work largely asynchronously
• Writes and speaks fluent English as well as the local language being recruited for

Responsibilities

• Act as a true local employment legislation and tax expert for the Eastern Europe region
• Risk and Compliance: Conduct comprehensive risk reviews of payroll files to verify accuracy and compliance with all governmental wage tax laws (federal, state and local) and social security requirements. Identify and rectify discrepancies, underpayments, or overpayments, and recommend corrective actions
• Reporting and Documentation: Prepare detailed audit findings reports, highlighting areas of concern and recommending improvements to payroll processes. Maintain strong records of audits performed, methodologies used, and the resolution of identified issues
• Responsible for ensuring the correctness of our payroll processes and that checklists, sign-off criteria and the network is fully embedded into Payroll Operations
• Monitor regulatory climate and ensure changes are understood, implemented, incorporated and communicated to Internal and external teams, as required
• Provide support and training on compliance matters to payroll staff
• Maintain country knowledge pages
• Overall responsibility for compliance and reporting to the Manager of Payroll Compliance and Audit, working with Tax, Legal and Payroll
• Experience in accounting/reconciliations
• Skilled in implementing recommendations to improve processes
• Working with internal teams to improve our platform, completing UAT testing through to sign-off. Ensure all changes are documented

Preferred Qualifications

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