Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Nordics

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Act as a true local employment legislation and tax expert for the Nordics region
• - 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
• - 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

Required Skills

• - Strong Legislation expertise in the Nordics region
• - Experience in a senior payroll role within an in-house payroll environment processing payroll or being in a 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
• - Writes and speaks fluent English as well as the local language being recruited for

Benefits

• - 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