Responsible for conducting process & control reviews to ensure compliance to finance policies and with a focus on incorporating digital elements.
**Responsibilities**:
- Leads projects and coordinates multiple project team members responsible for all stages of the project including planning, requirements gathering, development, testing and go-live for payroll related projects.
- Coordinating AMS SOX audit, internal and external audits in the countries
- Country risk assessment of existing processes and control mechanism
- Work with the Compliance & Control and Employee Experience Team to roll out of automated payroll checklist and business controls in countries to ensure legislative and audit compliances
- Coordinate with SMEs to ensure update of process documentation and store in common share point
- Coordination with SMEs to ensure ERMS updates are done as per agreed frequency
- Act as BCP SPOC to ensure BCP plan is up to date and tested by countries for accuracy and readiness
- Develop and maintain tracking mechanism; comprehensive & single source for all incidents connected to metrics and billing
- To proactively analyze & report areas of process improvements and suggest automation strategy to implement
- Support all global compliance & control initiatives
- Support any adhoc data collection requests from global teams
- Support for operations on compliance & control matters
**Knowledge and Skills**:
- Proficiency in Compliance & controls
- Project Management
- Technical skills (Power Automate, PowerApps, Power BI, MS Office, VBA - macro, SharePoint designer, InfoPath)
- Payroll knowledge
- Strong communication skills
**Impact and Scope**:
- Impact of decisions can often alter project timelines and resource allocation.
- Proactively and effectively interacts and partners across different departments within and outside payroll function.
- Escalation Level 1 for project deliverables.
- Team structure & size - payroll has approximately 120 members and this is a global team with 3 Regional Compliance and Control leads & 1 Employee Experience lead.
- Stakeholders - Payroll Country Ops teams, Internal Audit, External Auditors, EY for SOX audit, BCP PMO, and many others for improvements & enhancements.
**Complexity**:
- Moderate to high.
- Leads medium to large, cross-division functional teams or projects that affect the organization's long-term goals and objectives.
**Education and Experience**:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant area or demonstrated competence. Typically 6-8 years of experience
