Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Middle East

Remote

Middle East
Fully remote
Deep expertise in payroll compliance
Middle east legislation
Leading audits and compliance programs
Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for the Middle East, responsible for ensuring payroll compliance through local legislation expertise and collaboration with various teams. The position is fully remote, emphasizing innovation, compliance, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment

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 everything from audits to product design.
  • 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 the Middle East, responsible for ensuring payroll compliance through local legislation expertise and collaboration with various teams. The position is fully remote, emphasizing innovation, compliance, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • deep expertise in payroll compliance
  • Middle East legislation
  • leading audits and compliance programs
  • partnering with technical teams
  • systems thinking and process design

Nice-to-have

  • energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious
  • future focused work culture
  • innovation and AI capabilities

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 capable of influencing stakeholders
  • Confident investigator with sound judgment
  • Mentor and coach
  • Systems thinker who designs frameworks, documentation, processes, and controls that scale
  • Comfortable operating in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment

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