Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

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Africa
Fully remote
Payroll compliance expertise
Local legislation understanding
Audit and regulatory review leadership
Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa to ensure payroll compliance in various jurisdictions. This fully remote role requires expertise in local legislation, audit experience, and the ability to collaborate across teams to embed compliance into product development

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 in various jurisdictions. This fully remote role requires expertise in local legislation, audit experience, and the ability to collaborate across teams to embed compliance into product development.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

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

Nice-to-have

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

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
  • Comfortable operating in async, fast-changing, fully remote environment

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