Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Middle East

Remote

Middle East
Fully remote
Payroll compliance for middle east
Translate legislation into product requirements
Lead complex audits and investigations
Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for the Middle East, responsible for ensuring payroll compliance and embedding legislation into their global payroll platform. The role requires deep expertise in local legislation, audit experience, and strong communication skills to collaborate across 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 and 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 the Middle East, responsible for ensuring payroll compliance and embedding legislation into their global payroll platform. The role requires deep expertise in local legislation, audit experience, and strong communication skills to collaborate across teams in a fully remote environment.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payroll compliance for Middle East
  • Translate legislation into product requirements
  • Lead complex audits and investigations
  • Design scalable processes and controls
  • Cross-functional stakeholder partnership

Nice-to-have

  • Energetic, curious, motivated, ambitious
  • Systems thinking and strategic approach
  • Mentor and coach team members
  • Comfortable in remote, async environment

Key Requirements

  • Deep expertise in payroll and employment compliance for Middle East
  • Proven record leading audits or compliance programs
  • Experience partnering with technical teams
  • Strong communication and influencing skills
  • Confident investigator with sound judgment
  • Systems thinker designing scalable frameworks
  • Comfortable operating in a remote, fast-changing environment

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