Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Africa

1 day, 21 hours 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 and serve as the accountable subject-matter expert.
  • Translate local legislation, payroll rules, 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 root-cause analysis and systemic improvements.
  • Serve as the primary escalation point for regional compliance incidents and support resolution efforts.
  • Design and implement scalable compliance processes, controls, SOPs, monitoring mechanisms, and governance frameworks.
  • Create training materials, guidance, and documentation to upskill internal teams and maintain compliance knowledge.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, Customer Success, and senior stakeholders to embed compliance into decisions.

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 and ability to influence stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Senior Leadership.
  • Confident investigator with sound judgment in high-risk or sensitive situations.
  • Experience mentoring and coaching teammates to build team capability.
  • Systems-thinking mindset with experience designing scalable frameworks, documentation, processes, and controls.
  • Comfort operating in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment.
  • Location priority for Africa, with applications welcome from all locations.

Benefits

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

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