Lead Payroll Product Compliance Full-time Job

What You Will Do

Oversee payroll and tax compliance with EMEA regulations, ensuring all processes align with legal requirements.

Build a small team of experts to ensure coverage across critical EMEA jurisdictions, aligned with our product strategy

Support the Product Management team by providing insights and guidance on legal and compliance issues during payroll engine development.

Keep abreast of legislative changes in payroll and tax laws within the EMEA region, and advise on necessary updates to the payroll systems.

Act as a liaison between engineering, product, design and compliance teams, facilitating effective integration of tax and compliance requirements.

Identify potential compliance risks in payroll processes and suggest preventive or corrective actions.

Review and approve payroll system process architectures and designs to ensure they meet compliance standards.

Communicate with internal stakeholders and external partners, such as legal advisors, to gather and disseminate relevant compliance information.

Educate product and development teams on specific compliance requirements and best practices in the EMEA payroll context.

Maintain detailed records of compliance checks, decisions, and advice provided, ensuring transparency and accountability.

Regularly review and recommend improvements to payroll systems and processes to enhance compliance, efficiency, and user experience.

What We’re Looking For

10+ years of Product Compliance experience supporting the design, build and implementation of a multi-region Payroll Solution

Minimum 3 years experience working in a high-growth scale up environment, a high level of resilience and comfort with a significant level of ambiguity

Independent and autonomous leader

Understanding of Agile Principles and an interactive product development process

Understanding of both UX and UI

Strong financial acumen, having built B2B financial products at scale

Experience building managing a team of payroll experts distributed across a wide range of complex topics in different regions

Location: EMEA timezone

Deel is the all-in-one HR platform for global teams. It helps companies simplify every aspect of managing an international workforce, from culture and onboarding, to local payroll and compliance. Deel works for independent contractors and full-time employees in more than 150 countries, compliantly. And getting set up takes just a few minutes.
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