Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Middle East

12 hours, 44 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Operations
Remote

Remote

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Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2019
$496M raised

Description

  • Own payroll compliance for your country or region as the accountable expert.
  • Interpret local requirements and ensure they are documented and implemented across processes, systems, and customer workflows.
  • Translate statutory rules, payroll logic, tax calculations, thresholds, and edge cases into product and engineering requirements.
  • Partner with Product Design to create compliant, intuitive, and auditable user experiences.
  • Review specifications, test logic, and validate product outputs for legislative accuracy.
  • Lead multi-country or high-risk audits from planning through remediation.
  • Establish scalable audit frameworks and drive systemic improvements from root-cause analysis.
  • Serve as the primary escalation point for regional compliance issues and support incident resolution.
  • Create and maintain processes, controls, SOPs, monitoring mechanisms, and compliance documentation.
  • Build training materials, deliver enablement sessions, and coach internal teams on compliance topics.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in payroll and employment compliance for a country or region.
  • Strong understanding of how legislation translates into payroll calculations and system logic.
  • Proven experience leading audits, regulatory reviews, or country-level compliance programs.
  • Experience partnering with technical teams to convert statutory rules into product requirements.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to influence Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Senior Leadership.
  • Confident investigator with sound judgment in high-risk or sensitive scenarios.
  • Experience mentoring and coaching team members.
  • Systems-thinking approach to designing scalable frameworks, documentation, processes, and controls.
  • Comfortable working in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment.
  • Experience supporting automation and AI capabilities in role-related work (required across Remote roles).

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $62,400 to $140,400 USD.
  • Fair, unbiased compensation with equity pay.
  • Stock options.
  • Work from anywhere.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Flexible working hours in an async environment.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Mental health support services.
  • Learning budget.
  • Home office budget and IT equipment.
  • Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces.

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