Payroll Risk & Compliance Principal - Nordics
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.
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 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
- Interview with recruiter
- Exercise stage
- Interview with future manager
- Bar Raiser Interview
- 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 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
Benefits
Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
- 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
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
- 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 LinkedIn profile instead.
Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.
At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.