Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

Remote

Africa
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Payroll compliance expertise
Employment legislation interpretation
Audit and compliance program leadership
** Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa, responsible for ensuring payroll compliance and translating local legislation into scalable processes. The role involves collaboration across multiple functions to embed compliance into their global payroll platform, requiring deep expertise in payroll legislation and strong communication skills. **

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, 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 translating local legislation into scalable processes. The role involves collaboration across multiple functions to embed compliance into their global payroll platform, requiring deep expertise in payroll legislation and strong communication skills. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payroll compliance expertise
  • Employment legislation interpretation
  • Audit and compliance program leadership
  • Cross-functional technical partnership
  • Incident investigation and resolution
  • Scalable process and governance design

Nice-to-have

  • Systems thinking
  • Mentorship and coaching
  • Async and remote work environment
  • Influencing stakeholders
  • Proactive and solutions-oriented

Key Requirements

  • Deep expertise in payroll, employment compliance
  • Proven record leading audits
  • Experience partnering with technical teams
  • Strong communicator
  • Confident investigator
  • Systems thinker
  • Comfortable operating in async, fast-changing, fully remote environment

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