Contingent Workforce Compliance Lead

Crowe; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 96,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Crowe is seeking an HR Compliance Manager in the United States to own the end-to-end contingent worker lifecycle, partnering with leaders to classify engagements, manage SOWs, and ensure compliant onboarding and offboarding. You will work with Legal, Talent, and Finance to maintain accurate records and drive process improvements.

Responsibilities include managing classifications, requisitions in Workday, and ensuring engagement approvals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Legal Studies, or related field.
• 5-7+ years of progressive HR compliance or related experience, contingent workforce management, or related experience.
• Must have owned or directly overseen the contractor management lifecycle.
• Professional certification in HR or compliance (e.g., SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, or CCEP) preferred.
• Experience in professional services, consulting, or a multinational organization preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business units to understand contingent workforce requirements, evaluate scope, duration, supervision, and operational needs, and recommend appropriate engagement approaches.
• Lead and document worker classification assessments, distinguishing independent contractor and subcontractor engagements from temporary and regular employment arrangements; consult Legal and the HR Compliance Leader on complex determinations.
• Create and manage approved job requisitions and related workforce requests in Workday, ensuring accurate engagement details, approvals, and alignment with the chosen worker category.
• Coordinate onboarding and relevant teams to ensure smooth and timely onboarding experience.
• Ensure each contractor or subcontractor engagement has an active, approved agreement and SOW; coordinate with leaders to create, amend, extend, or terminate SOWs with deadlines.
• Maintain and monitor start/end dates, renewal milestones, engagement status, and approvals; engage leaders in advance for extension, conversion, or termination decisions.
• Manage ongoing employment- and engagement-related obligations and compliance, including documentation, policy and training requirements, worker status changes, and issue resolution.
• Coordinate timely offboarding with contractors, business leaders, IT, Finance, and other parties; include end-of-engagement communications, access removal, equipment returns, and record closure.
• Maintain audit-ready records of classification decisions, requisitions, agreements, SOWs, approvals, onboarding, extensions, and offboarding; support audits and remediation.
• Develop and improve contractor lifecycle procedures, controls, reporting, and stakeholder communications; identify compliance gaps and escalation risks.

Skills

HR compliance

Stakeholder partnership

Analytical thinking

Documentation

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/Legal Studies

HR/compliance professional certification

Job description

Crowe is seeking an HR Compliance Manager in the United States to own the end-to-end contingent worker lifecycle, partnering with leaders to classify engagements, manage SOWs, and ensure compliant onboarding and offboarding. You will work with Legal, Talent, and Finance to maintain accurate records and drive process improvements.

Responsibilities include managing classifications, requisitions in Workday, and ensuring engagement approvals.