Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Eastern Europe

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting opportunity to join Remote as a Payroll Risk and Compliance Expert for the Eastern European Region, where you can make a meaningful impact in the global employment space as part of our Payroll Risk and Compliance team.

We are looking for a candidate with experience in regional or global payroll operations, including in-depth knowledge of wage tax laws and social security regulations in at least one country. The ideal candidate has a proven track record of identifying payroll compliance risks and implementing effective controls.

What you bring

• Strong Legislation expertise in the Eastern European region
• Experience in a senior payroll role within an in-house payroll environment processing payroll or being in an payroll audit, compliance role.
• Understands the approach taken by local authorities and has proven track record of communicating with authorities to resolve matters.
• Has had exposure to local authority investigations and audits
• Experience in making recommendations for process improvements and ensuring that they are implemented
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership of tasks
• Proficiency in data manipulation (eg sql, Excel)
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• An analytical mindset with great problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, international work environment with a passion for making an impact.
• Is a productivity geek and will constantly think of ways to improve and speed up their work.
• You understand the need and ideal to work largely asynchronously.
• Writes and speaks fluent English as well as the local language being recruited for.
• It's not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a true local employment legislation and tax expert for the Eastern European region
• Risk and Compliance: Conduct comprehensive risk reviews of payroll files to verify accuracy and compliance with all governmental wage tax laws (federal, state and local) and social security requirements. Identify and rectify discrepancies, underpayments, or overpayments, and recommend corrective actions.
• Reporting and Documentation: Prepare detailed audit findings reports, highlighting areas of concern and recommending improvements to payroll processes. Maintain strong records of audits performed, methodologies used, and the resolution of identified issues.
• Responsible for ensuring the correctness of our payroll processes and that checklists, sign-off criteria and the network is fully embedded into Payroll Operations
• Monitor regulatory climate and ensure changes are understood, implemented, incorporated and communicated to Internal and external teams, as required
• Provide support and training on compliance matters to payroll staff.
• Maintain country knowledge pages
• Overall responsibility for compliance and reporting to the Manager of Payroll Compliance and Audit, working with Tax, Legal and Payroll.
• Experience in accounting/reconciliations
• Skilled in implementing recommendations to improve processes
• Working with internal teams to improve our platform, completing UAT testing through to sign-off. Ensure all changes are documented .

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. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $73,300 to $110,000 USD. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

Practicals

• You'll report to: Senior Manager, Global Payroll Strategy and Compliance
• Team: Global Payroll Risk and Compliance
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

1. Interview with Recruiter
2. Interview with Hiring Manager
3. Interview with Team member
4. Interview with Senior Director
5. Bar Raiser Interview

Benefits

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). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
3. 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.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. 

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.