Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

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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 who will oversee payroll compliance, ensuring adherence to local legislation while collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate compliance into their global payroll platform. The ideal candidate should have deep expertise in payroll compliance, excellent communication skills, and experience leading audits and compliance programs. **

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 for Africa who will oversee payroll compliance, ensuring adherence to local legislation while collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate compliance into their global payroll platform. The ideal candidate should have deep expertise in payroll compliance, excellent communication skills, and experience leading audits and compliance programs. **

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • payroll compliance expertise
  • local legislation interpretation
  • audit and regulatory review leadership
  • product requirements translation
  • cross-functional stakeholder partnership
  • investigation and incident resolution
  • systems thinking and process design

Nice-to-have

  • energetic, curious, motivated, ambitious
  • future focused work culture
  • innovation driven
  • mentoring and coaching capability
  • async, fast-changing environment

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
  • Comfortable operating in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment

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