Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Benelux

R; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,814,000 - 2,042,000; Full time

Job summary

A global workforce solutions provider is seeking a GP Compliance Expert to lead strategic audits, design governance frameworks, and mentor teams in compliance. This remote role offers competitive pay and benefits, including flexibility in working hours. Ideally suited for individuals with deep compliance expertise across multiple regions, you will influence the company's global strategy and contribute to team development.

Benefits

Work from anywhere

Flexible paid time off

Flexible working hours

16 weeks paid parental leave

Mental health support services

Stock options

Learning budget

Home office budget & IT equipment

Qualifications

• Proven track record of leading complex audits, regulatory reviews, or cross-border compliance programs.
• Confident mentor and coach with experience developing team capability through structured learning and feedback.
• Adept at navigating ambiguity and fast-changing environments with adaptability and integrity.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex audits across multiple countries or domains with 100% on time delivery.
• Support compliance investigations, embedding learnings/new processes to resolve quickly.
• Design and implement scalable best practices or frameworks to elevate compliance maturity.

Skills

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

Strategic communicator who influences stakeholders

Trusted escalation point and subject matter expert

Job description

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.

About Remote

Remote is solving global remote organizations’ biggest challenge: employing anyone anywhere compliantly. We make it possible for businesses big and small to employ a global team by handling global payroll, benefits, taxes, and compliance. We're backed by A+ investors and our team is world-class, literally and figuratively, as we're all scattered around the world.

Please check out our public handbook to learn more about our culture. We encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, and abilities to apply.

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.

Why Remote?

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.
• Documentation excellence: Maintain core compliance documentation.
• 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.

How You’ll Grow Here

• 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.

The base salary range for this full-time position is €90,400 - €101,700 EUR.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

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).

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 standardized 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.