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