Remote HR Compliance & Contractor Lifecycle Lead

Crowe; Oakbrook Terrace (IL); Remote; USD 96,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Crowe is seeking an HR Compliance Manager for Contractor Management to own the end-to-end contingent workforce lifecycle. You will partner with leaders to define requirements, assess classifications, and ensure compliant onboarding, governance, and offboarding across a multinational environment.

You will maintain audit-ready records, drive process improvements, and collaborate with Legal, Talent, Finance, and other stakeholders to mitigate risk while supporting business needs.

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.

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

HR compliance

Contractor management lifecycle

Worker classification

Workday

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/Legal studies

Certification in HR/compliance (SHRM-CP/Shrm-SCP/PHR/SPHR/CCEP)

Tools

Workday

Job description

Crowe is seeking an HR Compliance Manager for Contractor Management to own the end-to-end contingent workforce lifecycle. You will partner with leaders to define requirements, assess classifications, and ensure compliant onboarding, governance, and offboarding across a multinational environment.

You will maintain audit-ready records, drive process improvements, and collaborate with Legal, Talent, Finance, and other stakeholders to mitigate risk while supporting business needs.