Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

Remote

Africa
Fully remote
Payroll compliance expertise
Local legislation interpretation
Audit and regulatory review leadership
Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa to ensure payroll compliance and embed local legislation into their global payroll platform. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in payroll compliance, lead audits, and work closely with cross-functional teams 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 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 driving continuous improvement.
  • 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 payroll compliance and embed local legislation into their global payroll platform. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in payroll compliance, lead audits, and work closely with cross-functional teams in a fully remote environment.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • payroll compliance expertise
  • local legislation interpretation
  • audit and regulatory review leadership
  • partnering with technical teams
  • stakeholder influence
  • systems thinking and design

Nice-to-have

  • energetic, curious, motivated, ambitious
  • future focused work culture
  • innovation and AI capabilities
  • mentoring and coaching teams

Key Requirements

  • Deep expertise in payroll and employment compliance
  • Proven record leading audits or compliance programs
  • Experience converting statutory rules into product requirements
  • Comfortable operating in an async, remote environment

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Not specified

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