Accountant / Senior Accountant - Prepaid Accounting

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As a member of the Controllership SSC team, the candidate can expect to work in a fast-paced, non-traditional environment while building relationships within the accounting team and the larger organization (i.e. Finance & Strategy, Revenue Recognition/Management, Revenue Operations, Treasury, Tax, and Compliance).  

The Employees Compensations & Benefits Compliance Analyst will be working with the Compensation and Benefit Compliance (C&B) team within the controllership team. The mission for the team is to provide expertise to our internal stakeholders and partners on local employees/employer taxes legislation related to Compensation & Benefits, and other dues provided by Salesforce.The role of the team is, amongst other, to: maintain inventory of Compensation & Benefits rules and regulations for International Regions; Actively working with other functions such as Controllership, Payroll, HR /Compensation & Benefits, Total Rewards, Taxes and Travel & Expenses (T&E); Providing guidance on employees taxes and social security on new Compensation & Benefits items to mitigate risks; Monitor the legislative landscape and communicate/educate other functions; Identify risk and estimate the financial impacts.

The position is based in Hyderabad and rolls up under Worldwide Controller Organization.

Responsibilities

Compensation & Benefits Compliance (approx. 70%)

• Provide support during the annual refresh of the C&B playbooks (Repository of all employees/employer taxation legislation applicable to the Salesforce Compensation & Benefit items) for all International countries in scope: 

  • Coordinate the review - under supervision of the C&B Compliance team member(s) (this entails collaboration with one of the Bigs 4 firms consultants)

  • Perform an initial review over the updates as shared by the local consultants, ensuring the articles are up to date with all information received, 

  • Work on any relevant improvements

• Prepare drafts of the quarter/annual standard rates/tables/Matrix updates

• Work cross-functionally with and support our business partners by providing compliance updates

• Provide support during the Insite/Matrix maintenance & upgrades

• Prepare drafts of the County Controllers Newsletters

• Provides support during legislative watch activities: research and update any new legislation applicable to Salesforce C&B /payroll area and inform the various stakeholders

• Create and maintain process documentation

• Provide support during various projects and any ad-hoc requests/deliverables

Compensations & Benefits Accounting (approx. 30%)

• Executes monthly accounting close activities and deliverables (i.e. journal entries, account reconciliations, analytics and reporting) of any controllership process

• Understand and prepare accounting entries for various financial activities, which may include accounting (reserves and non-standard entries)

• Ability to work independently with the process owners to ensure that all tasks are completed on time and any changes communicated

Skills/Experience

• 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in employment tax, payroll/payroll compliance, proven capacity to analyze information, attention to details, deadline oriented, thoroughness in the deliverables, spirit to work as a team and respect of data confidentiality

• Experience in the Big 4 is an advantage

• Master / Bachelor’s degree in Law, Fiscal Legislation/Taxation, Accounting/Finance, Semi-qualified Chartered Accountant or equivalent desirable (with exposure to employees’ taxation)

• Excellent command of verbal and written English. Any other European/APJ language is an advantage

• Understanding of payroll compliance/finance/accounting and its stakes

• Detail oriented, ability to multi-task and work independently

• Must have a good IT literacy, knowledge of other tools such as Tableau, Microsoft Excel, Slack, Oracle, Workday, etc. is desirable

• Strong organizational skills

• Interest in process improvement and automation, as well as process documentation writing

• Willing to work in a challenging environment

• Strong ability to respond quickly to various requests

• Must be a self-starter - ability to self-motivate, adapt to change and work in a fast-paced environment

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