Payroll Risk & Compliance Expert - Middle East

1 day, 21 hours ago
Full-time
Lead
Operations
Remote

Remote

Global HR Solutions & Employment Tools for Distributed Teams | Remote Hire international talent in minutes. Remote is the most disruptive global payroll, tax, HR and compliance solution for distributed teams. The easier way to employ internationally 🌍....

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

Description

  • Own payroll compliance for your country or region and serve as the accountable expert in your jurisdiction(s).
  • 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 root-cause analysis and systemic improvements.
  • Serve as the primary escalation point for regional compliance incidents and support incident resolution.
  • Design scalable compliance processes, controls, SOPs, monitoring mechanisms, and governance frameworks.
  • Build training materials, guidance, and documentation to upskill internal teams and maintain compliance knowledge.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, Customer Success, and Senior Leadership to embed compliance into decision-making.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in payroll and employment compliance for a country or region, including 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 stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Legal, Support, and Senior Leadership.
  • Confident investigator with sound judgment in high-risk or sensitive scenarios.
  • Experience mentoring and coaching others to build team capability.
  • Systems-thinking mindset with experience designing frameworks, documentation, processes, and controls that scale.
  • Comfort working in an async, fast-changing, fully remote environment.
  • Ability to submit applications and CVs in English, with a PDF CV preferred; LinkedIn profile accepted if no current CV is available.
  • Experience with automation and AI capabilities is expected as Remote includes them in requirements for every role.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $62,400 to $140,400 USD.
  • Fair, unbiased compensation with pay equity and location-aware pay above local rates.
  • Fully remote work from anywhere.
  • Flexible paid time off.
  • Flexible working hours in an async work environment.
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Mental health support services.
  • Stock options, learning budget, and home office/IT equipment budget.

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