Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

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Africa
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Payroll compliance expertise
African payroll legislation
Audit and compliance program leadership
** Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for Africa, responsible for ensuring payroll compliance in the region through expertise in local legislation and the development of scalable processes. The role involves collaboration across multiple teams to integrate compliance into Remote's global payroll platform while leading audits and training initiatives. **

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 in the region through expertise in local legislation and the development of scalable processes. The role involves collaboration across multiple teams to integrate compliance into Remote's global payroll platform while leading audits and training initiatives. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Payroll compliance expertise
  • African payroll legislation
  • Audit and compliance program leadership
  • Product and engineering partnership
  • Incident investigation and resolution
  • Scalable process design

Nice-to-have

  • Systems thinking
  • Mentorship and coaching
  • Async work environment
  • Curious and ambitious mindset

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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