Regional Lead, Payroll Product Compliance

Summary

Join Deel, a global leader in international payroll and compliance, and play a pivotal role in overseeing payroll and tax compliance within the APAC region. You will build and lead a team of experts, ensuring adherence to legal requirements across critical jurisdictions. This position requires close collaboration with product, engineering, and compliance teams to integrate tax and compliance needs into payroll systems. You will monitor legislative changes, identify compliance risks, and recommend improvements to enhance efficiency and user experience. Deel offers a competitive compensation package and benefits, including remote work flexibility and stock grant opportunities.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Product Compliance experience supporting the design, build and implementation of a multi-region Payroll Solution
• Minimum 3 years experience working in a high-growth scale up environment, a high level of resilience and comfort with a significant level of ambiguity
• Independent and autonomous leader
• Understanding of Agile Principles and an interactive product development process
• Understanding of both UX and UI
• Strong financial acumen, having built B2B financial products at scale
• Experience building managing a team of payroll experts distributed across a wide range of complex topics in different regions
• Location: APAC timezone

Responsibilities

• Oversee payroll and tax compliance with APAC regulations, ensuring all processes align with legal requirements
• Build a small team of experts to ensure coverage across critical APAC jurisdictions, aligned with our product strategy
• Support the Product Management team by providing insights and guidance on legal and compliance issues during payroll engine development
• Keep abreast of legislative changes in payroll and tax laws within the APAC region, and advise on necessary updates to the payroll systems
• Act as a liaison between engineering, product, design and compliance teams, facilitating effective integration of tax and compliance requirements
• Identify potential compliance risks in payroll processes and suggest preventive or corrective actions
• Review and approve payroll system process architectures and designs to ensure they meet compliance standards
• Communicate with internal stakeholders and external partners, such as legal advisors, to gather and disseminate relevant compliance information
• Educate product and development teams on specific compliance requirements and best practices in the APAC payroll context
• Maintain detailed records of compliance checks, decisions, and advice provided, ensuring transparency and accountability
• Regularly review and recommend improvements to payroll systems and processes to enhance compliance, efficiency, and user experience

Benefits

• Provided computer equipment tailored to your role
• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• The flexibility of remote work, including WeWork access where available