Global Payroll Policy - Compliance Lead id-11273

What this job can offer you

As the Global Payroll Policy & Compliance Lead, you will build and own automated compliance tracking frameworks and real-time compliance dashboards, ensuring payroll operations and product development remain aligned with global regulations.

This role is critical in translating complex regulatory updates into actionable insights for Product, Engineering, Payroll Operations, and Risk & Compliance. Your work will ensure compliance is proactively embedded into our payroll systems, mitigating risks, and supporting business growth in an evolving regulatory landscape.

What you bring

Key Responsibilities

Compliance Monitoring & Implementation

  • 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.

Research & Strategy: Informing Payroll Product Innovation

  • 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.

Practicals

  • You'll report to: Manager, GP Strategy & Compliance
  • Team: RiskCom (GP Strategy & Compliance)
  • Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from the EMEA regions
  • Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is between USD 40,700 to USD 91,650. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

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