Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Canada
Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Canada
Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Canada
Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Canada
Remote Technology
Internet, IT
Homeoffice
- Art der Anstellung: Vollzeit
- 52.500 € – 77.000 € (von XING geschätzt)
- Remote
Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Canada
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About Remote
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. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!
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 Leads to elevate performance across multiple countries or high-impact regions. Your expertise will drive strategic outcomes, align global policies, and scale Remote’s compliance capabilities across teams, systems, and stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
You’ll deliver impact in the following areas:
- Strategic ownership: Lead complex audits and compliance initiatives across multiple countries or domains with 100% on-time delivery.
- Governance frameworks: Design and implement ≥3 scalable best practices or frameworks annually to elevate compliance maturity.
- Policy alignment: Ensure >95% alignment with key compliance policies across countries/markets.
- Incident resolution: Resolve 100% of high-priority risks/issues within 6 weeks; proactively embed learnings.
- Documentation excellence: Maintain 100% of core compliance documentation up to date, reviewed quarterly, and accessible in real time.
- SLA accountability: Resolve ≥95% of Payroll Ops queries within SLA, partnering with key stakeholders to improve first-time resolution.
- Mentorship: Deliver ≥4 documented mentorship or coaching sessions per year; improve team review outcomes year over year.
- Thought leadership: Publish or co-author ≥2 high-impact compliance articles/pieces per year and lead ≥2 external speaking engagements.
- 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.
What Makes Us Different
- Remote-First DNA: Work from anywhere and shape impact everywhere.
- Real Strategic Impact: Your work scales across countries, systems, and teams.
- Inclusive Culture: We value your background, voice, and perspective.
- Commitment to Learning: You’ll grow through ownership, mentorship, and bold challenges.
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 $122,200-$137,500 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.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
Application process
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with future manager
- Interview with team members (no managers present)
- Bar Raiser Interview
- Prior employment verification check
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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.
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.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
The annual salary range for this full-time position is
$122,200 — $137,500 USD
Benefits
Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
- 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). 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
- 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 standardised 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.
Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.
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.
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