Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Benelux

Remote; Indonesia; Remote; IDR 1.764.246.000 - 1.984.778.000; Full time

Job summary

A multinational employment agency is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert to lead various audits and design governance frameworks. The role emphasizes strong expertise in payroll compliance and offers a fully remote environment. Candidates should be strategic communicators with a proven track record in audits and team mentorship. The position provides a salary range of €90,400 - €101,700, contingent upon experience and location.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Emphasis on work-life balance

Qualifications

• High proficiency in managing payroll compliance across various markets.
• Experience in conducting audits and regulatory reviews.
• Capable of mentoring and developing future compliance leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex audits with 100% on-time delivery.
• Support compliance investigations with key stakeholders.
• Design scalable governance frameworks for compliance.

Skills

Deep expertise in payroll, employment, and tax compliance across multiple countries or markets

Proven track record of leading complex audits

Trusted escalation point for strategic matters

Strategic communicator

Mentoring and coaching abilities

Job description

Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Benelux

Remote Western Europe

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

How we work

We love working async and this means you get to do your own schedule.

We empower ownership and proactivity and when in doubt default to action instead of waiting.

At Remote, we’re pioneering the future of work—enabling global teams to thrive, compliantly and confidently. Our mission is to transform complexity into clarity and compliance into impact. As a senior expert, your role is pivotal in influencing strategy, leading excellence, and mentoring the next generation of global compliance leaders.

The Opportunity

As a GP Compliance Expert, you are a regional or domain-level authority in payroll and employment compliance. You’ll lead complex audits, shape scalable governance frameworks, and coach Specialists/Leads to elevate performance across multiple countries or high-impact regions. Your expertise will drive strategic outcomes, align global policies, and scale Remote’s compliance capabilities across teams, systems, and stakeholders.

What You’ll Do

You’ll deliver impact in the following areas:

• Strategic audit ownership: Lead complex audits across multiple countries or domains with 100% on-time delivery.
• Compliance Investigations: Support compliance investigations, partnering with key stakeholders and embedding learnings/new processes to resolve as quickly as possible.
• Governance frameworks: Design and implement scalable best practices or frameworks to elevate compliance maturity.
• Strategic initiatives: Lead strategic initiatives globally, partnering with teams such as product, engineering & customer success to embed compliance into everything we do.
• Policy alignment: Ensure alignment with key compliance policies across countries/markets.
• Incident resolution: Resolve high-priority risks/issues and proactively embed those learnings.
• Mentorship: Deliver mentorship or coaching as a compliance expert; improving team growth year over year.
• Stakeholder influence: Achieve ≥90% positive feedback from cross-functional stakeholders on compliance partnership.
• Enablement & communication: Tailor messaging and materials to audience needs; support quarterly coaching/upskilling documentation.

What We Value (Who You Are)

• Deep expertise in payroll, employment, and tax compliance across multiple countries or markets.
• Proven track record of leading complex audits, regulatory reviews, or cross-border compliance programs.
• Trusted escalation point and subject matter expert in high-risk or strategic matters.
• Strategic communicator who influences stakeholders across all levels — including product, legal, and senior leadership.
• Confident mentor and coach with experience developing team capability through structured learning and feedback.
• A systems thinker — able to scale solutions, frameworks, and documentation with clarity and impact.
• Adept at navigating ambiguity and fast-changing environments with adaptability and integrity.
• Comfortable leading initiatives across async, multicultural, and remote-first teams.
• Influence Remote’s global strategy for audits, frameworks, enablement, and policy alignment.
• Lead regional or cross-regional initiatives that define how global payroll compliance scales.
• Mentor and develop future leaders across the compliance team.
• Shape thought leadership through publications, knowledge sharing, and conference visibility.
• Drive innovation in frameworks, automation, and knowledge systems that make compliance a competitive advantage.

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 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 hire globally. The base salary range for this full-time position is 90,400 - 101,700 EUR. The actual base pay for the successful candidate depends on location, skills, experience, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case-by-case basis.

Application process

• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with future manager
• Interview with team members (no managers present)

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

How to apply

• Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
• We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
• If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check seehere.

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.