Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

Remote

Africa
Fully remote
Payroll compliance expertise
African payroll legislation
Audit and compliance programs
Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa to ensure compliance with local payroll laws and regulations. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in payroll compliance, audit experience, and the ability to translate legislative requirements into actionable 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 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, leading investigations and incident resolution.
  • 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 compliance with local payroll laws and regulations. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in payroll compliance, audit experience, and the ability to translate legislative requirements into actionable processes.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • payroll compliance expertise
  • African payroll legislation
  • audit and compliance programs
  • product and engineering partnership
  • investigation and incident resolution
  • scalable process design
  • remote asynchronous work

Nice-to-have

  • systems thinking
  • mentoring and coaching
  • stakeholder influence
  • ambitious problem solving
  • future focused work culture

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
  • Confident investigator
  • Systems thinker
  • Comfortable operating in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment

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