Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Middle East

2 hours, 30 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 subject-matter expert.
  • Interpret and document local legal requirements and implement them across processes, systems, and customer workflows.
  • Translate statutory rules, payroll logic, tax calculations, thresholds, and edge cases into requirements for Product and Engineering.
  • 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 and systemic improvements.
  • Serve as the primary escalation point for regional compliance incidents and support incident resolution.
  • Create processes, controls, SOPs, monitoring mechanisms, and governance frameworks for payroll compliance operations.
  • Build training materials and documentation, deliver enablement sessions, and coach internal teams on compliance rules and workflows.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, Customer Success, and leadership to embed compliance into decision-making.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in payroll and employment compliance for a specific 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 and stakeholder-influencing skills across Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Senior Leadership.
  • Confident judgment and investigative ability in high-risk or sensitive scenarios.
  • Experience mentoring and coaching others.
  • Ability to design scalable frameworks, documentation, processes, and controls.
  • Comfort working in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment.
  • Prior employment verification check required.
  • Application and CV must be submitted in English, and the CV should be uploaded in PDF format.
  • Preferred location priority for candidates based in the Middle East.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $62,400 to $140,400 USD.
  • Fair, unbiased compensation with equity pay and pay equity principles.
  • 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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