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Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Nordics

Remote - Eastern Europe

About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience.

All of our positions are fully remote. You do not have to relocate to join us!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting opportunity to join Remote as a Payroll Risk and Compliance Expert for the Nordic Region, where you can make a meaningful impact in the global employment space as part of our Payroll Risk and Compliance team.

We are looking for a candidate with experience in regional or global payroll operations, including in-depth knowledge of wage tax laws and social security regulations in at least one country. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of identifying payroll compliance risks and implementing effective controls.

What you bring

• Strong legislation expertise in the Nordics region
• Experience in a senior payroll role within an in-house payroll environment processing payroll or being in a payroll audit, compliance role.
• Understands the approach taken by local authorities and has a 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 (e.g., SQL, Excel)
• Excellent time management and organizational 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.
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a true local employment legislation and tax expert for the Nordics region.
• Risk and Compliance: Conduct comprehensive risk reviews of payroll files to verify accuracy and compliance with all governmental wage tax laws 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 and methodologies used.
• Ensure the correctness of our payroll processes and that checklists, sign-off criteria, and the network are 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.
• Work with internal teams to improve our platform, completing UAT testing through to sign-off. Ensure all changes are documented.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Senior Manager, Global Payroll Strategy and Compliance
• Team: Global Payroll Risk and Compliance
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

• Interview with Recruiter
• Interview with Hiring Manager
• Interview with Team member
• Interview with Senior Director

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!