Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Middle East

Remote

Middle East
Fully remote
Payroll compliance expertise
Middle east legislation knowledge
Audit and regulatory review leadership
Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for the Middle East to manage payroll compliance, ensuring adherence to local legislation while collaborating with multiple teams to enhance the global payroll platform. The role combines deep subject-matter expertise with strategic systems thinking in a fully remote work environment

Job Summary

  • As a GP Compliance Expert, you are the owner of payroll compliance for your country or region, translating complex rules into scalable processes, systems, and documentation.
  • You will work closely with Product, Engineering, Design, Operations, and Legal to embed compliance into the foundations of our global payroll platform.
  • 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.

Matching Summary

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Remote is seeking a Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert for the Middle East to manage payroll compliance, ensuring adherence to local legislation while collaborating with multiple teams to enhance the global payroll platform. The role combines deep subject-matter expertise with strategic systems thinking in a fully remote work environment.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • payroll compliance expertise
  • Middle East legislation knowledge
  • audit and regulatory review leadership
  • product and engineering partnership
  • investigation and incident resolution
  • systems thinking and process design

Nice-to-have

  • energetic, curious, motivated, ambitious
  • systems thinker
  • mentor and coach
  • cross-functional influence

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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