About the role
About Remote
Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all 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!
The position
This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Senior Benefits Compliance Specialist , joining our Benefits team.
As a Benefits Compliance Specialist, you will help establish Remote's benefits compliance function and ensure Remote’s benefits programs, operations, vendor processes, and product workflows remain compliant, scalable, and aligned with country-specific statutory and regulatory requirements. You will partner closely with Benefits Operations, Benefits Solutions, Legal, Payroll, Finance, Product, and external advisors to define standards, identify compliance risks, strengthen controls, and support reliable benefits delivery across Remote’s global footprint.
What this job can offer you
• A role at the intersection of benefits operations, regulatory compliance, payroll, product, - helping Remote deliver compliant, scalable benefits globally and increase the value of our benefits product for customers.
• The ability to improve compliance controls and reduce operational risk across multiple countries and products.
• Exposure to complex global benefits topics, including statutory benefits, pensions, health insurance, vendor governance, and multi-product benefits delivery.
• The chance to contribute to scalable processes, automation, documentation, and reporting that improve compliance and increase the value of Remote’s benefits product for customers..
Key responsibilities
• Monitor and interpret benefits compliance requirements across countries where Remote operates, including statutory benefits, mandatory insurance, and supplemental benefits.
• Oversee compliance with statutory benefits filings, mandatory reporting, and regulatory obligations by partnering with stakeholders to ensure requirements are completed accurately and on time.
• Conduct regular audits of benefits processes, data, vendor outputs, payroll inputs, deductions, contributions, and operational workflows to identify compliance gaps or risks.
• Partner with Legal, Payroll, Finance, Benefits Operations, Benefits Solutions, Product, and external advisors to assess requirements and implement compliant processes.
• Identify areas of non-compliance or operational risk, document root causes, recommend remediation plans, and drive issues through to resolution.
• Design, implement, and maintain benefits compliance controls, SOPs, country guidance, escalation paths, and audit documentation.
• Translate regulatory and compliance requirements into operational and product requirements, ensuring new benefits launches and process changes are compliant by design.
• Track compliance incidents, remediation actions, and recurring risk themes; contribute to reporting and dashboards that improve visibility and accountability.
• Support vendor governance by helping review benefits provider processes, outputs, documentation, and compliance obligations.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that reduce manual work, improve data quality, and strengthen compliance outcomes.
• Stay up to date with global benefits legislation, regulatory updates, and best practices, and communicate relevant changes to stakeholders.
What you bring
• Experience in benefits operations, benefits compliance, HR compliance, payroll compliance, legal operations, employment compliance, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of benefits administration and statutory benefits requirements, ideally across multiple countries or regions.
• Experience designing compliance frameworks and leading audits, reconciliations, risk assessments, controls, or compliance documentation.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data, spreadsheets, reports, and operational evidence.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to identify process gaps, inconsistencies, and compliance risks.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to turn complex requirements into clear documentation and guidance.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities across countries, stakeholders, and timelines.
• A proactive, ownership-oriented mindset with a bias toward scalable solutions and continuous improvement.
Practicals
• You’ll report to: Senior Manager, Benefits
• Team: Benefits
• Location: EMEA
• Start date: As soon as possible
Application process
• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with future manager
• Executive Interview
• Bar Raiser Interview
• Offer
• Prior employment verification check
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 d