Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

RemoteOtter

Africa
Fully remote
Payroll compliance expertise
African payroll legislation
Audit and regulatory review leadership
RemoteOtter is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa, a fully remote role focused on ensuring payroll compliance within local legislation. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in payroll compliance, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate complex regulations into scalable processes

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 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, 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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RemoteOtter is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa, a fully remote role focused on ensuring payroll compliance within local legislation. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in payroll compliance, strong communication skills, and the ability to translate complex regulations into scalable processes.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payroll compliance expertise
  • African payroll legislation
  • Audit and regulatory review leadership
  • Product and engineering partnership
  • Systems thinking and process design
  • Cross-functional stakeholder management

Nice-to-have

  • Energetic, curious, motivated, ambitious
  • Systems thinker
  • Mentor and coach
  • Async, fast-changing environment

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 an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment

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