Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Middle East

RemoteScout

Middle East
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Payroll compliance expertise
Middle east employment legislation
Audit and regulatory review leadership
** RemoteScout is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for the Middle East, responsible for managing payroll compliance and adhering to local legislation. The role emphasizes collaboration with multiple teams to ensure regulatory standards are met while fostering an innovative and remote work culture. **

Job Summary

  • As a GP Compliance Expert, you will be the owner of payroll compliance for your country or region, holding deep expertise in local legislation and applying it across audits and product design.
  • 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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** RemoteScout is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for the Middle East, responsible for managing payroll compliance and adhering to local legislation. The role emphasizes collaboration with multiple teams to ensure regulatory standards are met while fostering an innovative and remote work culture. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payroll compliance expertise
  • Middle East employment legislation
  • Audit and regulatory review leadership
  • Product and Engineering partnership
  • Incident investigation and resolution
  • Scalable process and control design

Nice-to-have

  • Systems thinking
  • Mentoring and coaching
  • Async and remote work comfort
  • Stakeholder influence

Key Requirements

  • Deep payroll and employment compliance expertise for Middle East
  • Proven record leading audits or compliance programs
  • Experience partnering with technical teams
  • Strong communication and influencing skills
  • Confident investigator with sound judgment
  • Systems thinker designing scalable frameworks
  • Comfortable operating in a remote environment

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