A multinational group of companies with worldwide operations in the UK, USA and Europe

Responsibilities :

• Review all periodic payrolls in our various jurisdictions
•  Responsible for developing a consistent payroll process across all offices and ensuring proper governance is followed
•  Oversee all payroll bookings, reporting and reconciliations with Finance
•  Coordinate the collection of annual bonus recommendations and ensure that proper payments are made through payroll
•  Maintain the accrual accounts of the company’s deferred compensation and long-term incentive programs.  Update as appropriate
• Review the calculations of the deferred compensation portfolios performance, periodically
• Review the deferred compensation annual statements provided to employees
•  Work on the migration of deferred compensation records to an outsourced provider (go-live by the 3Q2021).Establish ongoing monitoring procedures of the outsourced provider
•  Oversee the creation of the Salary Budget with finance and provide periodic updates on spending vs budget
• Work with human resources directors to develop and monitor spending on human capital
•  Develop human resources reporting metrics and oversee collection of required data to complete the reporting the Company board

Requirements:

•  University undergraduate degree in accounting or similar discipline
• 5-7 years of HR accounting experience with an understanding of payrolls across multiple jurisdictions
• Detailed experience working with salary budgets
• Understanding of deferred compensation and incentive award accounting
• Advanced knowledge of Excel, including use of pivot tables, as well as data interface
• Excellent writing and communications skills
• Arabic is a big plus
• Team player with a collaborative work style
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Complete discretion as this role has access to all individual compensation information