Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

Remotelyjobs

Africa
Fully remote
Payroll compliance expertise
African payroll legislation
Audit and regulatory reviews
Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert to oversee payroll compliance across Africa, ensuring that local legislation is effectively integrated into their global payroll systems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in payroll compliance, strong communication skills, and a proven track record in leading audits and compliance programs

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, 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 to oversee payroll compliance across Africa, ensuring that local legislation is effectively integrated into their global payroll systems. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in payroll compliance, strong communication skills, and a proven track record in leading audits and compliance programs.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • payroll compliance expertise
  • African payroll legislation
  • audit and regulatory reviews
  • product and engineering partnership
  • investigation and incident resolution
  • systems thinking and process design

Nice-to-have

  • energetic, curious, motivated, ambitious
  • future focused work culture
  • innovation and AI capabilities
  • mentoring and coaching teams
  • async, fast-changing environment

Key Requirements

  • Deep expertise in payroll, employment compliance for country/region
  • 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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