Contingent Workforce Compliance Lead (Remote)

Crowe; Burlington (VT); Remote; USD 96,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Crowe is seeking an HR Compliance Manager to own the contingent worker and contractor management lifecycle across the firm. You will partner with business leaders to determine engagement models, classifications, and ongoing compliance obligations, ensuring proper approvals and documentation from requisition through offboarding.

You will collaborate with Legal, Talent, Finance, and other stakeholders to manage classifications, SOWs, onboarding, extensions, and terminations, while maintaining

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Legal Studies, or a 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).
• Experience in professional services, consulting, or a multinational organization.
• Strong working knowledge of worker classification considerations and distinctions among independent contractors, subcontractors, temporary employees, and regular employees.
• Knowledge of U.S. and India worker classification regulations is preferred.
• Hands‑on experience managing contractor onboarding, offboarding, engagement dates, SOWs, extensions, and supporting records and approvals.
• Ability to interpret applicable employment and contractor compliance requirements, recognize risk, and partner with Legal and other specialists on complex matters.

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 or higher-risk determinations.
• Create and manage approved job requisitions and related workforce requests in Workday, ensuring accurate engagement details, approvals, and alignment with the selected worker category.
• Coordinate with Onboarding and relevant teams to ensure smooth and timely onboarding experience.
• Ensure each applicable contractor or subcontractor engagement has an active, appropriately approved agreement and SOW covering the work performed; coordinate with business leaders to create, amend, extend, or terminate SOWs before relevant deadlines, ensuring work does not commence or continue without required approvals and documentation.
• Maintain and proactively monitor accurate start dates, end dates, renewal milestones, engagement status, and required approvals; engage business leaders in advance to confirm extension, conversion, or termination decisions.
• Manage ongoing employment- and engagement-related obligations and compliance, including required documentation, policy and training requirements, worker status changes, and issue resolution.
• Coordinate timely offboarding with contractors, business leaders, IT, Finance, and other parties, including end-of-engagement communications, access removal, equipment returns, final administrative steps, and record closure.
• Maintain complete, audit-ready records of classification decisions, requisitions, agreements and SOWs, approvals, onboarding, extensions, and offboarding; support audits, reporting, risk assessments, and remediation.
• Develop and improve contractor lifecycle procedures, controls, guidance, reporting, and stakeholder communications; identify compliance gaps, elevate risks, and drive consistent execution across business units.

Skills

Integrity & Judgment

Consultative Partnership

Analytical & Problem-Solving

Ownership & Execution

Organization

Process Improvement

Communication & Technical Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Legal Studies, or related field

HR/compliance professional certification (SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP/PHR/SPHR/CCEP)

Tools

Workday

Job description

Crowe is seeking an HR Compliance Manager to own the contingent worker and contractor management lifecycle across the firm. You will partner with business leaders to determine engagement models, classifications, and ongoing compliance obligations, ensuring proper approvals and documentation from requisition through offboarding.

You will collaborate with Legal, Talent, Finance, and other stakeholders to manage classifications, SOWs, onboarding, extensions, and terminations, while maintaining