Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Middle East

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Middle East
Fully remote
Payroll compliance expertise
Middle east employment legislation
Audit and regulatory review leadership
Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for the Middle East to oversee payroll compliance, ensuring adherence to local legislation and regulations. The role requires deep expertise in payroll law, audit experience, and the ability to translate complex rules into scalable processes

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 to oversee payroll compliance, ensuring adherence to local legislation and regulations. The role requires deep expertise in payroll law, audit experience, and the ability to translate complex rules into scalable processes.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payroll compliance expertise
  • Middle East employment legislation
  • Audit and regulatory review leadership
  • Translate rules into product requirements
  • Cross-functional stakeholder influence
  • Investigate high-risk scenarios
  • Design scalable processes and controls

Nice-to-have

  • Energetic, curious, motivated, ambitious
  • Systems thinking and strategic approach
  • Mentoring and coaching capability
  • Comfortable in async remote 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 communicator and influencer
  • Confident investigator with sound judgment
  • Systems thinker designing scalable frameworks
  • Comfortable operating in a remote environment

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