Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

Remote

Africa
Remote
Payroll compliance expertise
African payroll legislation
Audit and compliance programs
Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa, who will be responsible for ensuring payroll compliance within their jurisdiction. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in local legislation, lead audits, and partner across functions to embed compliance into Remote's global payroll platform

Job Summary

  • As a GP Compliance Expert, you are the owner of payroll compliance for your country or region, translating complex rules into scalable processes, systems, and documentation.
  • You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Operations, and Legal to embed compliance into the foundations of our global payroll platform.
  • 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, who will be responsible for ensuring payroll compliance within their jurisdiction. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in local legislation, lead audits, and partner across functions to embed compliance into Remote's global payroll platform.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payroll compliance expertise
  • African payroll legislation
  • Audit and compliance programs
  • Product and engineering partnership
  • Incident resolution
  • Scalable process design

Nice-to-have

  • Energetic, curious, motivated, ambitious
  • Systems thinking
  • Async, fast-changing environment
  • Cross-functional influence
  • Mentoring and coaching

Key Requirements

  • Deep expertise in payroll, employment compliance for country/region
  • Proven record leading audits, regulatory reviews, or country-level 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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