Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Middle East

Remote

Middle East
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Payroll compliance expertise
Middle east legislation
Audit and compliance programs
** Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert to oversee payroll compliance for a specific region in the Middle East. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of local legislation, experience in audits, and the ability to collaborate across teams to embed compliance into the company's global payroll platform. **

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 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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** Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert to oversee payroll compliance for a specific region in the Middle East. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of local legislation, experience in audits, and the ability to collaborate across teams to embed compliance into the company's global payroll platform. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payroll compliance expertise
  • Middle East legislation
  • Audit and compliance programs
  • Product and engineering partnership
  • Incident investigation and resolution
  • Scalable process design

Nice-to-have

  • Energetic, curious, motivated, ambitious
  • Systems thinking
  • Mentoring and coaching
  • Async, fast-changing environment

Key Requirements

  • Deep payroll and employment compliance expertise for country/region
  • 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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