Global Payroll Compliance Lead

PwC Portugal; Porto; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Portugal is seeking a Payroll Compliance Lead to act as the central compliance authority for multi-country payroll operations. This technical supervisor and individual contributor role has no direct people-management responsibility and focuses on monitoring regulatory requirements, investigations and remediation, audits, and governance across payroll processes.

The role partners with Country Leads and stakeholders to implement regulatory changes, maintain control frameworks, and provide

Qualifications

• Strong experience in global or multi-country payroll operations and payroll compliance.
• Solid knowledge of statutory payroll, tax, social security, labor requirements and payroll governance.
• Experience with incident investigation, root cause analysis, audits, control frameworks and risk monitoring.
• Strong stakeholder management, investigative and written communication skills.
• Experience with ECP/SAP payroll environments is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor payroll processes, outputs and controls across countries to identify compliance risks, exceptions, trends and control failures.
• Maintain compliance risk and issue logs, remediation tracking and clear governance reporting.
• Recommend improvements to controls, monitoring and governance to reduce recurring risk.
• Lead investigations into compliance incidents, payroll errors, audit findings and statutory concerns.
• Perform structured root cause analysis covering process, system, operational and governance factors.
• Coordinate corrective and preventive actions, track delivery to completion and escalate material or unresolved risks.
• Maintain clear records of findings, decisions, risks and actions.
• Monitor relevant payroll, tax, social security, labor changes and assess operational impacts.
• Partner with Country Leads, SMEs and Compliance stakeholders to implement changes and confirm readiness before go-live.
• Support internal, external, client and statutory audits, including evidence coordination and remediation of findings.
• Monitor adherence to payroll controls and recommend enhancements to the control framework.

Skills

Global payroll experience

Payroll compliance

Stakeholder management

Investigative skills

Written communication

SAP ECP

Tools

SAP ECP

Job description

PwC Portugal is seeking a Payroll Compliance Lead to act as the central compliance authority for multi-country payroll operations. This technical supervisor and individual contributor role has no direct people-management responsibility and focuses on monitoring regulatory requirements, investigations and remediation, audits, and governance across payroll processes.

The role partners with Country Leads and stakeholders to implement regulatory changes, maintain control frameworks, and provide