Payroll Risk & Compliance Principal - Nordics

About Remote

What this job can offer you

As the Nordics Risk & Compliance Expert, you are the accountable owner 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 complex legal requirements into scalable operational and technical design.
• Lead audits, investigations, and regulatory readiness across the region.
• Mentor and elevate 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, thresholds, 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 complex regulatory requirements into clear guidance for technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
• You elevate the capability of the team around you through mentoring, documentation, and structured enablement.
• You thrive 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.
• Develop 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

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Exercise stage
3. Interview with future manager
4. Bar Raiser Interview
5. Prior employment verification check 

Benefits

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 remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When 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

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
3. 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 LinkedIn profile instead.

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