Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

Remote

Africa
Remote
Payroll compliance expertise
Local legislation interpretation
Audit and regulatory review leadership
Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa to ensure payroll compliance and embed legislation into their global payroll platform. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in local payroll laws, lead audits, and work collaboratively 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, 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 to ensure payroll compliance and embed legislation into their global payroll platform. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in local payroll laws, lead audits, and work collaboratively across teams in a fully remote environment.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • payroll compliance expertise
  • local legislation interpretation
  • audit and regulatory review leadership
  • partnering with technical teams
  • stakeholder influence
  • systems thinking and design

Nice-to-have

  • energetic, curious, motivated, ambitious
  • future focused work culture
  • innovation and AI capabilities
  • mentoring and coaching team members

Key Requirements

  • Deep payroll and employment compliance expertise
  • Proven record leading audits
  • Experience converting statutory rules to product requirements
  • Comfortable operating in a remote environment

Work Rights

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