Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

Remote

Africa
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Payroll compliance expertise
Local legislation interpretation
Audit and regulatory review leadership
** Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa, responsible for ensuring payroll compliance and embedding local legislation into their global payroll systems. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in payroll compliance, lead audits, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve compliance 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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** Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa, responsible for ensuring payroll compliance and embedding local legislation into their global payroll systems. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in payroll compliance, lead audits, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve compliance processes. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payroll compliance expertise
  • Local legislation interpretation
  • Audit and regulatory review leadership
  • Product and engineering partnership
  • Cross-functional stakeholder influence
  • Incident investigation and resolution

Nice-to-have

  • Systems thinking and design
  • Mentoring and coaching capability
  • Async remote work environment
  • Ambitious problem solving

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 async, fast-changing, fully remote environment

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