Payroll Compliance Manager - Global Payroll Compliance
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Senior
Bachelor's, Master's, MBA
Prague, Czechia
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Risk & ComplianceRegulatory Compliance & Ethics
About the job
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Human Resources Management, or a related field is required.
- Payroll qualifications such as CIPP are required.
- At least 7 years of hands-on experience in EMEA payroll and tax-related compliance is required; another listed qualification states at least 5 years.
- Experience undertaking internal risk reviews covering payroll compliance is essential.
- Expertise in payroll compliance and administration, with a background in employment tax consulting, is required.
- Experience leading payroll tax audits and resolving complex tax issues is required.
- Ability to build frameworks and documentation from scratch in ambiguous or evolving environments is required.
- Strong knowledge of EMEA payroll engines is required.
- Strong knowledge of EMEA payroll and HR systems, such as Workday and ADP Global View, is required.
Responsibilities
- Proactively monitor regional payroll compliance and regulatory updates, communicate their impact on business and payroll operations, and update policies accordingly.
- Lead proactive compliance assessments across EMEA payroll operations, identifying risks in Social Security contributions, tax withholding, and statutory reporting before they become regulatory findings.
- Design and implement EMEA-wide payroll compliance assessment frameworks with country-specific depth and regional consistency.
- Manage responses to labor inspections, Social Security audits, and tax authority inquiries, coordinating with Legal, Payroll Operations, and external advisors.
- Monitor legislative changes, court rulings, and regulatory guidance across assigned markets and translate them into country-specific operational guidance, process updates, system and control improvements, while ensuring payroll calculation accuracy and compliance with applicable laws, policies, and collective bargaining agreements.
- Partner with payroll vendors to validate system configurations, establish compliance checkpoints, and drive remediation of identified gaps.
- Work with Product and Tech teams on automation initiatives and implement compliance control mechanisms across countries, legal entities, and payroll platforms.
- Partner with HR, Benefits, Legal, Employment Tax, Payroll Technology, and Product teams to develop and enhance payroll systems to meet payroll compliance requirements.
- Produce compliance risk assessments and present findings and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Ensure payroll compliance across Western European countries by developing payroll risk control frameworks, payroll blueprints, and compliance rulebooks, while assisting colleagues across the wider EMEA region.
- Respond to stakeholder and employee requests on compliance questions, partner with technology colleagues to build AI solutions for risk assessments, and ensure payroll accuracy and compliance.
- Join Payroll Product design PODs, share compliance requirements, develop self-service mechanisms using AI agents for compliance monitoring, and contribute ideas to improve payroll processes and controls.
Desired Qualifications
- A master's degree in Finance or Tax, an MBA, or a related discipline is preferred.
- Exposure to payroll system transformations and/or tax compliance audits is preferred.
- Experience working in a government (state or federal) payroll tax or regulatory environment is preferred.
- Experience with end-to-end project management, or completing complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and responding with appropriate urgency to situations requiring a quick turnaround, is preferred.
- Experience building and scaling knowledge management systems such as wikis, runbooks, and shared repositories is preferred.
- Experience creating process improvements with automation and analysis, or identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance or business tools and processes, is preferred.
- Experience communicating results to senior leadership, or identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, finding root causes, and creating and implementing escalation plans, is preferred.
About the company
Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Founded
1994
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
- Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
- Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.
What critics are saying
- AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
- Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
- Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.
What makes Amazon unique
- Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
- Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
- Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.
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- Flexible Work Hours
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