Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Middle East

dronelist.io

Middle East
Remote
Payroll compliance expertise
Middle east legislation
Audit and compliance program leadership
Be the accountable expert for payroll compliance in your jurisdiction(s) and ensure local requirements are correctly implemented across processes, systems, and customer workflows

Job Summary

  • Be the accountable expert for payroll compliance in your jurisdiction(s) and ensure local requirements are correctly implemented across processes, systems, and customer workflows.
  • Translate statutory rules, payroll logic, tax calculations, thresholds, and edge cases into structured requirements for Product and Engineering, and partner with Product Design to create compliant user experiences.
  • Own and deliver multi-country or high-risk audits from planning through remediation, establish audit frameworks that scale, and identify root causes to drive systemic improvements.

Matching Summary

Be the accountable expert for payroll compliance in your jurisdiction(s) and ensure local requirements are correctly implemented across processes, systems, and customer workflows.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payroll compliance expertise
  • Middle East legislation
  • Audit and compliance program leadership
  • Product and Engineering partnership
  • Incident investigation and resolution
  • Process and governance framework design

Nice-to-have

  • Systems thinking
  • Mentorship and coaching
  • Async and remote work comfort
  • Stakeholder satisfaction focus

Key Requirements

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

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