Compliance challenges for HR teams (and how to avoid them)

Compliance challenges rarely appear overnight. For many organizations, gaps only become visible when auditors, authorities, or internal stakeholders start asking questions.

In this session, we’ll explore why HR setups struggle with compliance in the first place. Often, it is not a lack of effort, but fragmented systems, unclear ownership across HR and payroll, outdated documentation, or People data that has not been reviewed consistently over time.

You’ll hear directly from an HR expert and People leader who have supported audits, recurring reporting requirements, and special situations such as organizational changes. They will share what raised red flags, what caused extra follow-up, and what they changed to build a more reliable, audit-ready setup.

The focus is on prevention. We will look at how to build a sturdy compliance foundation that holds up over time and reduces risk before issues arise.

Whether you are preparing for an audit or strengthening compliance long term, this session will help you spot common gaps and avoid repeat problems.

We’ll discuss

• Common compliance challenges for HR teams: What auditors and authorities most often flag, from inconsistent data to missing documentation and broken workflows.
• What audit-ready HR teams do differently: How to structure data, documentation, and ownership so readiness is built into daily work.
• How to reduce compliance risk over time: The systems, processes, and habits that support ongoing compliance, including how a connected, people-first HRIS helps reduce manual work and errors.