Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

Remote

Africa
Fully remote
Payroll compliance expertise
Local legislation interpretation
Audit and compliance program leadership
Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa to ensure compliance with local payroll legislation and embed these requirements into their global payroll platform. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in payroll compliance, experience with audits and regulatory programs, and the ability to work cross-functionally in a fully remote environment

Job Summary

  • As a GP Compliance Expert, you are the owner of payroll compliance for your country or region, holding deep expertise in local legislation and applying it across everything from audits to product design.
  • You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Operations, and Legal to embed compliance into the foundations of our global payroll platform, leading investigations and incident resolution.
  • 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 ensure compliance with local payroll legislation and embed these requirements into their global payroll platform. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in payroll compliance, experience with audits and regulatory programs, and the ability to work cross-functionally in a fully remote environment.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • payroll compliance expertise
  • local legislation interpretation
  • audit and compliance program leadership
  • product and engineering partnership
  • investigation and incident resolution
  • systems thinking and process design

Nice-to-have

  • energetic, curious, motivated, ambitious
  • future focused work culture
  • mentor and coach capability
  • strategic systems thinking
  • stakeholder satisfaction focus

Key Requirements

  • Deep expertise in payroll, employment compliance
  • Proven record leading audits
  • Experience partnering with technical teams
  • Strong communicator
  • Confident investigator
  • Comfortable operating in async, remote environment

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