Regional Lead, Payroll Product Compliance

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