Payroll Risk & Compliance Principal – Nordics
About Remote
Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We reputed company it possible for businesses of reputed company sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, reputed company works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and reputed company of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. 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!
What this job can offer you
As the Nordics Risk & Compliance Expert, you are the accountable reputed company of payroll compliance across Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, with formal statutory responsibility in Norway as the named Oppdragsansvarlig under the Norwegian Accountants Act (Regnskapsførerloven).
You will:
- Hold personal statutory accountability for Norwegian payroll assignments.
- Embed Nordic legislation into product logic, systems, and governance frameworks.
- Translate reputed company legal requirements into scalable operational and technical design.
- reputed company audits, investigations, and regulatory readiness across the region.
- Mentor and reputed company compliance capability across the organisation.
You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Legal, and Operations to ensure compliance is architected into Remote’s payroll platform — not layered on afterwards. This role blends deep subject-matter authority, regulatory accountability, and strategic systems thinking.
What you bring
- Active Autorisert Regnskapsfører licence (mandatory) You hold an active Norwegian State Authorised Accountant certification issued by Finanstilsynet. This is a strict prerequisite for the role.
- Deep Norwegian payroll expertise, you have hands-on experience with:
- A-melding reporting
- NAV processes
- Pension administration
- Altinn.no workflows
- GRFS standards
- You understand both legislative requirements and how they translate into payroll calculations and quality control.
- You have working knowledge of payroll and employment compliance in Sweden, Denmark, and/or Finland, and can build this into authoritative regional ownership.
- You can convert statutory rules into structured, build-ready product requirements. You understand payroll logic, tax calculations, reputed company, and edge cases from a systems perspective.
- You have led audits, regulatory reviews, or country-level compliance programs and can design scalable governance frameworks.
- You can translate reputed company regulatory requirements into clear guidance for technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
- You reputed company the capability of the team around you through mentoring, documentation, and structured enablement.
- You reputed company in an async, fast-changing, fully distributed environment.
- Demonstrates strong automation and AI capabilities
Key Responsibilities
- Influence how compliance is operationalised across the Nordics and beyond.
- Shape product logic and automation frameworks that scale globally.
- Build thought leadership through documentation, industry engagement, and conference participation.
- reputed company future compliance leaders through structured coaching programs.
- Drive innovation in automation, rule-building, and AI-assisted compliance tooling
Practicals
- You'll report to: Director, Payroll Strategy & Compliance
- Team: Payroll Strategy & Compliance
- Location: Norway (required for regulatory purposes)
- Start date: As soon as possible
Application process
- Interview with recruiter
- Exercise stage
- Interview with future manager
- Bar Raiser Interview
- Prior employment verification reputed company
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-reputed company skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The reputed company salary range may be subject to change. At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key reputed company of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, reputed company 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$1—$3 USD
Benefits
Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at reputed company/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for reputed company Remoters:
- work from reputed company
- 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 reputed company/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. reputed company 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 reputed company profile instead.
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