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Role Summary Senior payroll accountability and ownership for multiple complex countries or deep SME knowledge of a large complex country to ensure an accurate, timely and compliant execution of payroll through effective vendor management and timely escalation of issues whilst exhibiting role model behaviours Experience 5+ years for Bachelor's 5+ years for Master's Education 5+ years payroll experience in an international organisation for a large complex single country or end to end accountability for a multi-country payroll operation Bachelor's or Master's or Industry recognised Qualification/equivalent experience Functional/ Technical Skills Workday (HCM) (Payroll - US only) ServiceNow (CRM) CloudPay (Payroll and advanced reporting) Expert payroll and employment tax subject matter expertise for countries in scope of role Presentation Skills (Powerpoint) Intermediate Advanced use of Office applications relevant to role (Excel/Outlook) Understanding of downstream financial impact of payroll outputs Expert understanding of Tax, Social Insurance, Employment Law and Regulatory Practices in relevant countries Ability to identify, research and advise of potential compliance issues Ability to manage Internal and External Audit requests escalating any concerns and answering questions that arise Expert understanding of SOX expectations Role Expectations • Consistently responds to stakeholder requests in an accurate, timely and professional manner. • Understands (internal and external) customers’ needs, and begins to develop the skills necessary to help customers understand business challenges. • Continues building understanding of the organization's processes, objectives and challenges ,and their impact on the business and how this affects their role. • Ability to understand the voice of customer and apply to policy and payroll best practice. • Ability to partner with customers to solve complex inquiries/queries. • Ability to influence and gains cooperation of peers/ stakeholders. • Relationship management with various stakeholders (internal & external). • Understands the importance of being able to say ‘no’ when required whilst maintaining professional relationships. • Demonstrates a mindset of continuous improvements. • Demonstrates and promotes the importance of following escalation processes to mitigate risks and provides solutions for resolution. • Proactively creates and maintains key relationships in the performance of the function. • Confident in delivering information, facilitating dicussions, and presenting to stakeholders. • Language skills and cultural awareness relevant to Countries in scope of role. • Expectation to continually circle back and assess change. • Follows local, state and federal regulations. • Provides broad information on compliance standards and requirements to stakeholders. • Understands the steps for reporting to management and regulatory agencies. • Continues building knowledge of HR technical/professional area best practices and their unique application to the company. • Extensive functional area knowledge. • Contributes to design and creation of program materials. Leads identified program enhancements. • Ability to transfer knowledge to peers and act as a coach. • Manages common toolsets and methods to effectively and consistently manage project deliverables. • Develops project plans, defines timeframe, and prioritizes tasks to achieve project milestones and deliver intended objectives. • Identifies the type of resources required to support a project, and makes recommendations for specific people, technology, partners, etc. • Monitors progress to meet project milestones, timelines, specifications and requirements. • Ability to demonstrate good judgement in order to handle unexpected challenges whilst proposing short to long term solutions. • Works with a mindset of continuous improvement proposing change with appropriate analysis. • Support changing business needs and successfully operate in ambiguous situations. • Ability to engage and drive transformation/process improvement discussions. • Champions new processes and improvements. • Assists others in keeping current on laws, controls and regulatory requirements • Ensures organizational adherence to legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., reporting mandates, compliance requirements • Leverages knowledge of incountry compliance to determine internal controls necessary to properly mitigate standard legal and regulatory risks. • Demonstrates understanding of how the organization does business (i.e. business model and operations, financial performance, and key success factors). • Applies understanding of the policies, practices, trends and information that impact the organization and its customers to anticipate and plan for each step of a project. • Demonstrates a deep understanding of the financial impact of decisions/solutions and how own role contributes to positive outcomes. • Collaborates within team to create key performance indicators and metrics; uses dashboards to monitor and assess team performance (e.g., efficiency and effectiveness). • Works to create internal metrics and uese External metrics from vendors ensuring maximum efficiencies • Encourages self identification of issues through tracking tools and acts as a role model • Develops complex processes or protocols that comply with and support broader Payroll, HR and organizational policy. • Manages work related to complex Payroll processes and identifies targeted opportunities for improving efficiency. • Maintains long-term relationships with vendors to ensure high quality products and services are delivered consistently. • Ability to identify opportunities for improvement. • Champions data integrity across systems. • Ability to perform pre and post analysis of payroll to identify root cause issues and suggest enhancements. • Good understanding of accounting concepts and the impact of this data.

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