Payroll Risk & Compliance Principal - Nordics

Overview

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).

Requirements

• 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.

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.

• 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • You'll report to: Director, Payroll Strategy & Compliance
  • Team: Payroll Strategy & Compliance
  • Location: Norway (required for regulatory purposes)
  • Start date: As soon as possible
  • Interview with recruiter
  • Exercise stage
  • Interview with future manager
  • Bar Raiser Interview

  • Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all 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 inspire 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 base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
    
    At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all 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