HR Compliance Specialist
Posted Today by Principle
£55,000 Per year
Undetermined
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The HR Compliance Specialist role is a 12-month contract position focused on HR compliance within a global fintech organization. This fully remote role requires a mid-senior level individual to manage compliance activities, audits, and process improvements across international markets, particularly in EMEA. The position emphasizes project work over high-volume ticket handling, making it ideal for someone with a strong operational and compliance background. Candidates should have hands-on experience with HR systems, particularly Workday, and possess strong communication skills.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support and oversee People Ops compliance activities across international markets
- Handle Tier 2 compliance requests (e.g. regulatory data requests, personal data queries, reporting)
- Support HR audits and compliance reviews
- Maintain and improve HR compliance processes, documentation and reporting
- Partner with Legal, Payroll, People COEs and Systems teams on compliance initiatives
- Contribute to compliance-focused projects and process improvements
- Work with HR systems (including Workday) to support reporting and controls
Key Skills:
- 4+ years’ experience in People Operations and/or HR Compliance
- Strong understanding of HR compliance, with exposure to international markets
- Experience supporting audits, compliance reporting and operational HR processes
- Project-oriented mindset; comfortable managing multiple workstreams
- Experience in a global, fast-moving tech or fintech environment
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Hands-on Workday experience
Salary (Rate): £55,000.00 yearly
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
HR Compliance Specialist 12-month contract | Fully remote (UK -based) I’m hiring an HR Compliance Specialist for a global fintech organisation operating at scale across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. This is a hands-on People Operations role focused on HR compliance, reporting, audits and process improvement — ideal for someone at a mid–senior individual contributor level who enjoys combining operational detail with project work in a fast-paced tech environment.
The role You’ll support HR compliance across international markets, with a particular focus on EMEA. While the team provides Tier 2 support for compliance-related requests, the core of the role is projects, processes and audit readiness , rather than high-volume ticket handling.
What you’ll do
- Support and oversee People Ops compliance activities across international markets
- Handle Tier 2 compliance requests (e.g. regulatory data requests, personal data queries, reporting)
- Support HR audits and compliance reviews
- Maintain and improve HR compliance processes, documentation and reporting
- Partner with Legal, Payroll, People COEs and Systems teams on compliance initiatives
- Contribute to compliance-focused projects and process improvements
- Work with HR systems (including Workday) to support reporting and controls
What they’re looking for
- 4+ years’ experience in People Operations and/or HR Compliance
- Strong understanding of HR compliance , with exposure to international markets
- Experience supporting audits, compliance reporting and operational HR processes
- Project-oriented mindset; comfortable managing multiple workstreams
- Experience in a global, fast-moving tech or fintech environment
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Hands-on Workday experience
The details
- Fully remote (Uk-based)
- 12-month contract
- Global remit within a scaling fintech
If you’re a People Ops professional with a strong compliance mindset who enjoys hands-on work, structured processes and project delivery, this is a role worth exploring.