Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

Remote

Africa
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Payroll compliance ownership
Local legislation expertise
Audit and regulatory review leadership
** Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa to oversee payroll compliance, ensuring adherence to local legislation while collaborating with various teams to enhance their global payroll platform. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in payroll compliance, strong communication skills, and the ability to lead audits and investigations in a fully remote environment. **

Job Summary

  • As a GP Compliance Expert, you are the owner of payroll compliance for your country or region, translating complex rules into scalable processes, systems, and documentation.
  • You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Operations, and Legal to embed compliance into the foundations of our global payroll platform.
  • This role blends subject-matter expertise with strategic systems thinking — making you a key architect in how Remote builds compliant, automated global payroll at scale.

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** Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa to oversee payroll compliance, ensuring adherence to local legislation while collaborating with various teams to enhance their global payroll platform. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in payroll compliance, strong communication skills, and the ability to lead audits and investigations in a fully remote environment. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payroll compliance ownership
  • Local legislation expertise
  • Audit and regulatory review leadership
  • Cross-functional technical partnership
  • Incident investigation and resolution

Nice-to-have

  • Systems thinking and design
  • Mentoring and coaching capability
  • Async remote work environment comfort
  • Stakeholder influence and partnership

Key Requirements

  • Deep payroll and employment compliance expertise
  • Proven record leading audits
  • Experience partnering with technical teams
  • Strong communicator
  • Confident investigator
  • Systems thinker
  • Comfortable operating in async, fast-changing, fully remote environment

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