Total 10 lead buyer job vacancies in Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines

This role will primarily support management of day to day operational activities within the global month-end and journals team. This role will support the manager in executing operating plans such as putting controls in place to ensure quality and timeliness of output, reporting gaps and recommending process improvements for more efficient service delivery.  The role will involve day to day management of the team to ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, policies, and procedures.

• Evaluate frequency of ad hoc reports and raise change requests as needed
• Act as the first level interviewer for team member hiring
• Authorize overtime and approves team members’ submitted timesheets[TD1] 
• Review and approve reconciliations performed by the R2A team members based on the Global Process Maps

• Identify and analyze complex issues and recommend solutions or alternatives.
• Act as first level escalation point for questions and issue resolutions ensuring issues are addressed on a timely manner Responsible for escalating the issues further as and when necessary.
• Provide regular performance and operational progress reports to managers to ensure issues are being flagged on a timely manner and ensures performance/operational gaps are addressed.
• Responsible for the implementation of team’s business continuity plan.
• Recommends resource planning solutions for changing resource loading and work volumes.
• Sets performance and behavioral expectations.  Conducts regular review, provide feedback and coaching, and other developmental, training and learning opportunity plans to ensure the success of the individuals within the team. Lead short term projects and supports medium to long term projects and contribute to long term initiatives planning.  
• Develop strong stakeholder relationship by ensuring escalations are managed effectively and proactively and elevating it further as and when necessary.
• Ensure team compliance to and delivery of service level agreements, policies and procedures as a agreed with the Manager.

Summary

This role is responsible for day-to-day processing of assigned payroll activities for the ANZ region. The role will also further support junior members of the team by providing process guidance and leverage on expertise to solve complex process issues in compliance with relevant local regulations, policies, procedures, and methodologies support with the necessary audit requirements.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Perform complex payroll activities in compliance with established procedures, strategies, and methodologies.
• Perform taxation, legislative and statutory obligations, effective processing and preparation of returns, documents management, and maintenance of key processes.
• Lead and support in ensuring up-to-date processes and compliance with legislative, award, and other region-specific changes for accurate payroll processing.
• Contribute as subject matter expert by applying technical expertise in the overall payroll process.
• Provide guidance and technical expertise to junior members of the team regarding query resolutions for unique cases and process exceptions, completing projects, and performing (sub-process) activities.
• Develop and prepare multiple reports, analyses, and presentations for periodic and ad hoc requirements.
• Address critical and unique issues with the guidance of Team Lead for timely resolution of escalated issues. Identify risks and propose ways to prevent occurrence of similar issues and concerns.
• Work with Team Lead to develop process improvement initiatives to streamline processes, improve customer experience, and increase productivity.
• Create and update SOP/DTP of current and new processes and incorporate documentation updates as required.
• Resolve identified issues and keep the Team Lead updated for open or ongoing concerns.
• Be involved in various and simultaneous process improvement initiatives to streamline processes, improve customer experience, and increase productivity.
• Facilitate in audit-related programs.
• Perform complex tasks in compliance with service level agreement, process, policies, procedures, and SOX & internal controls.
• Lead and support key projects, audit reviews, activities, and documentation.
• Keeping knowledge of legislation that affects the payroll up to date by research and subscriptions as well as attendance at various workshops and training seminars
• Providing accurate and timely payroll information and reports to stakeholders as needed
• Planning staff workload on a daily basis and assisting them in the completion of assigned tasks and duties within reported deadlines.
• Monitor and respond to Employee Centre support requests as it pertains to Payroll Services

Qualifications & Requirements Qualifications:
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in Finance or Accounting
• With solid experience in processing (input region) region payroll, exposure to end-to-end payroll processing.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office tools 
• Advanced working knowledge and understanding of HR processes and procedures
• Advanced working experience in a high-volume/high-headcount payroll processing
• Solid experience in using payroll systems  –in Empower/ Easy Pay/ADP Global View or other Payroll Systems
• Solid experience working with Payroll Systems and other HR Systems preferably in Oracle, and Workday.
• Excellent English communication skills (written and verbal)

Attributes:
• Ability to be thorough and meticulous in completing assigned tasks and with the ability to propose ways to prevent or eliminate errors, discrepancies & issues. (Attention to Detail)
• Ability to gather, integrate, validate, and analyze relevant data to develop resolutions, findings, and recommendations. (Analytical Thinking)
• Ability to provide timely guidance and feedback to help others strengthen specific knowledge/skill areas needed to accomplish a task and ability to support direct reports to achieve desired performance and output (Coaching)
• Ability to effectively communicate within a varied audience and internal and external customers using different platforms. (Communication)
• Ability to actively identify new areas for learning and opportunities to improve processes, tools, and mindset (Continuous improvement)
• Ability to maintain good customer relationship and initiate ways to improve customer experience (Customer Service)
• Ability to clearly define objectives and set targets for the team consistent with and compliant with service delivery agreements, key performance indicators, and policies. (Planning and Organizing)
• Ability to identify and resolve moderate and complex issues by applying best practices and technical expertise and may recommend solutions for unique scenarios. (Problem Solving)
• Ability to monitor and measure progress and effectively drive individual and team results that supports the overall goal of the team. (Results Oriented)

This role will primarily support management of day to day operational activities within the global month-end and journals team. This role will support the manager in executing operating plans such as putting controls in place to ensure quality and timeliness of output, reporting gaps and recommending process improvements for more efficient service delivery.  The role will involve day to day management of the team to ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, policies, and procedures. 

Responsibilities: 

• Evaluate frequency of ad hoc reports and raise change requests as needed
• Act as the first level interviewer for team member hiring
• Authorize overtime and approves team members’ submitted timesheets
• Review and approve reconciliations performed by the R2A team members based on the Global Process Maps

• Identify and analyze complex issues and recommend solutions or alternatives.
• Act as first level escalation point for questions and issue resolutions ensuring issues are addressed on a timely manner Responsible for escalating the issues further as and when necessary.
• Provide regular performance and operational progress reports to managers to ensure issues are being flagged on a timely manner and ensures performance/operational gaps are addressed.
• Responsible for the implementation of team’s business continuity plan.
• Recommends resource planning solutions for changing resource loading and work volumes.
• Sets performance and behavioral expectations.  Conducts regular review, provide feedback and coaching, and other developmental, training and learning opportunity plans to ensure the success of the individuals within the team. Lead short term projects and supports medium to long term projects and contribute to long term initiatives planning.  
• Develop strong stakeholder relationship by ensuring escalations are managed effectively and proactively and elevating it further as and when necessary.
• Ensure team compliance to and delivery of service level agreements, policies and procedures as a agreed with the Manager.

This role will primarily support management of day to day operational activities within the global Intercompany team. This role will support the manager in executing operating plans such as putting controls in place to ensure quality and timeliness of output, reporting gaps and recommending process improvements for more efficient service delivery.  The role will involve day to day management of the team to ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, policies, and procedures.

Team Lead will support management of day-to-day operational activities within the global Fixed Asset team. This role will support the manager in executing operating plans such as putting controls in place to ensure quality and timeliness of output, reporting gaps and recommending process improvements for more efficient service delivery.  The role will involve day to day management of the team to ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, policies, and procedures.

• Review Journal Entries, Quarterly report, and monthly depreciation calculation and posting
• Reconcile fixed assets transactions and monthly report
• Review the preparation and analysis of the monthly reconciliation of the fixed asset subsidiary ledger to the general ledger
• Ensure compliance in accordance with the principles for recording, disposing, transferring, impairing, and depreciating assets.  
• Monitor the status of CIP projects/assets and on-going communication with business partners to ensure assets are placed into service in a timely manner, recorded and tagged as such.
• Ensure that the risk of errors is minimized within the balance sheet and income statement when the financial statements and management accounts are produced
• Assist with annual audits
• Identify and analyze complex issues and recommend solutions or alternatives.
• Act as – first level escalation point for questions and issue resolutions ensuring issues are addressed on a timely manner Responsible for escalating the issues further as and when necessary.
• Provide regular performance and operational progress reports to managers to ensure issues are being flagged on a timely manner and ensures performance/operational gaps are addressed.
• Responsible for the implementation of team’s business continuity plan.
• Recommends resource planning solutions for changing resource loading and work volumes.
• Sets performance and behavioral expectations.  Conducts regular review, provide feedback and coaching, and other developmental, training and learning opportunity plans to ensure the success of the individuals within the team.
• Lead short term projects and supports medium to long term projects and contribute to long term initiatives planning.  
• Develop strong stakeholder relationship by ensuring escalations are managed effectively and proactively and elevating it further as and when necessary.
• Ensure team compliance to and delivery of service level agreements, policies and procedures as a agreed with the Manager.

This role will primarily support management of day to day operational activities within the global reconciliation team. This role will support the manager in executing operating plans such as putting controls in place to ensure quality and timeliness of output, reporting gaps and recommending process improvements for more efficient service delivery.  The role will involve day to day management of the team to ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, policies, and procedures.

• Oversee balance sheet account reconciliation activities, from preparation, review, and approval.
• Ensure clarity and consistency of control documentation produced for balance sheet accounts.
• Escalate reconciling items for correction and adjustments prior to filing SEC reports.
• Escalate aged reconciliation variances to assist with corrections in the general ledger.
• Support cross-functional and cross-regional process alignment and standardizations within functional accountability.
• Ensure team's adherence to all Sarbanes-Oxley, internal policies, audit procedures and regulations to ensure fully compliance with established control points.
• Serve as the point of contact during external and internal audits.
• Identify and analyze complex issues and recommend solutions or alternatives.
• Act as – first level escalation point for questions and issue resolutions ensuring issues are addressed on a timely manner Responsible for escalating the issues further as and when necessary.
• Provide regular performance and operational progress reports to managers to ensure issues are being flagged on a timely manner and ensures performance/operational gaps are addressed.
• Responsible for the implementation of team’s business continuity plan.
• Recommends resource planning solutions for changing resource loading and work volumes.
• Sets performance and behavioral expectations.  Conducts regular review, provide feedback and coaching, and other developmental, training and learning opportunity plans to ensure the success of the individuals within the team.
• Lead short term projects and supports medium to long term projects and contribute to long term initiatives planning.  
• Develop strong stakeholder relationship by ensuring escalations are managed effectively and proactively and elevating it further as and when necessary.
• Ensure team compliance to and delivery of service level agreements, policies and procedures as a agreed with the Manager.

AECOM is seeking a Lead - Financial Accountant to be based in Manila, Philippines

This role is primarily responsible for autonomously performing periodic financial transactions and ad hoc tax activities in accordance with tax compliance, generally accepted accounting principles, finance policies, and internal controls. The role is expected to provide technical expertise and lead junior team members in ensuring alignment in financial procedures, processes, and systems to business requirements.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Assumes responsibility in the maintaining financial management and reporting systems and complementary financial and administrative business processes, to support the effective and judicious use of financial resources.
  • Leads in the maintenance of a documented system of accounting process, policies and procedures like SOP and DTPs, including the maintenance of the Fixed Asset register and management of the Blackline Reconciliation.
  • Demonstrates adept knowledge of the organization’s financial policies, procedures, processes, systems and supporting technology.
• Applies expertise in processing financial transactions to ensure the effective recording and tracking of revenues and expenditures.
  • Prepares journal entries and synthesize common ledger for subsidiary accounts.
  • Performs complex tasks in compliance with process, policies, procedures, and SOX & internal controls.
  • Resolves identified issues independently and keeps the Finance Manager updated for open or ongoing concerns.
  • Addresses critical and unique issues with the guidance of Finance Manager for timely resolution of escalated issues.
• Prepares financial reports and final accounts in compliance with statutory/regulatory requirements and general accepted accounting standards autonomously.
  • Leads with monthly closings, account analysis and supports the Finance Manager in carrying out the responsibilities of the Business Office
  • Develops and prepare reports, analyses, and presentations for periodic and ad hoc requirements.
  • Drives completion of audit processes by coordinating with stakeholders, join auditors in walk throughs, and review submitted documents.
  • Leads and support key projects, audit reviews, activities, and documentation.
• Recommends process and procedural improvements to maintain the accuracy and integrity of financial transactions.
  • Works with Finance Manager to develop process improvement initiatives to streamline processes, improve customer experience, and increase productivity.
  • Identifies risks and propose ways to prevent occurrence of similar issues and concerns.
• Applies expert knowledge on relevant local, state, and federal tax laws and regulations in managing taxation and tax-related issues.
  • Demonstrates in-depth knowledge in the specific areas of tax, duties, and government levies.
  • Ensures compliance with Philippine regulatory reporting requirements such as BIR, SEC, and BOI.
  • Identifies potential tax exposure and advises accordingly. Advise on the impact of changes in tax laws on the organization. Explains the organization’s tax policies and plays a key role in their implementation.
• Provides guidance and technical expertise to junior members of the team in completing projects and performing financial activities.

The role is responsible and accountable for supervising a team in the HR Contact Center, to ensure the team meets or exceeds expectations and defined SLA targets. The role will support the manager and coordinate with stakeholders and team members in executing end-to-end contact center activities by ensuring quality and timeliness of output, adherence to defined service level agreements, and ensuring compliance to relevant standards and procedures. The role is responsible for ensuring effective staff utilization to meet business needs and ensure effective service delivery. Responsible for supporting team members as needed, providing coaching and training, ensuring team members are engaged and motivated and fostering a collaborative culture

• Responsible for managing the day-to-day HR Contact Center operations by leading the team and developing and implementing internal workflow processes, operating procedures, team schedules, and controls.
• Manage team workload and capacity; recommend long or short-term adjustments to staffing model when/if necessary, to effectively support shifts in scope of work and/or volume
• Manage team performance, provide coaching, and identify career development opportunities relevant to the team
• Develop strong stakeholder relationships by ensuring escalations are managed effectively and proactively and elevating if/when necessary
• Lead and/or participate in governance meetings with internal/external stakeholders to discuss operational results, issues, strategies, and solutions to improve team’s performance
• Provide and present regular performance and operational progress reports to internal/external stakeholders ensuring issues are flagged, monitored, and resolved in a timely manner
• Ensure effective timely communication to leadership and stakeholders
• Develop and prepare reports and conduct analyses on resource utilization, performance against SLA targets, quality, and process efficiency
• Investigate and resolve complex issues
• Analyze issues and service failures to identify root causes and trends to develop and implement improvement strategies
• Be a point of escalation for issues and time critical actions. Undertake required actions and resolve as appropriate. Escalating as required
• Drive continuous improvement. Identify and implement process improvements to streamline processes, improve customer experience, increase productivity, and ensure high quality service delivery
• Lead system testing, coordinating this activity for the team. Identify issues, ensure retesting happens until issues are resolved
• Provide guidance and direction to the team according to established policies, procedures, and management guidelines
• Accountable for ensuring adherence to audit and regulatory requirements both internal and external (i.e GDPR, AECOM Privacy Policy and SOX) ensuring the Company is compliant and risks are mitigated

AECOM is seeking a Service Delivery Team Lead - Pre-Hire Support to be based in Manila, Philippines

Job Description:

The role is responsible and accountable for supervising a team within the HR Service Center (Pre-Hire Support), to ensure the team meets or exceeds expectations and defined SLA targets. The role will support the manager and coordinate with stakeholders and team members in executing end-to-end Pre-Hire Support activities by ensuring quality and timeliness of output, adherence to defined service level agreements, and ensuring compliance to relevant standards and procedures. The role is responsible for ensuring effective staff utilization to meet business needs and ensure a high level of service delivery. Responsible for supporting team members as needed, providing coaching and training, ensuring team members are engaged and motivated and fostering a collaborative culture.

• Responsible for ensuring effective management of team daily volume and cases including bulk transactions to ensure excellent service delivery and that SLAs and productivity targets are achieved
• Manage team workload and capacity; recommend long or short-term adjustments to staffing model when/if necessary, to effectively support shifts in scope of work and/or volume
• Responsible for ensuring a  good team relationship and dynamics existis and the team are highly motivated. Manage team performance, provide coaching, and identify career development opportunities relevant to the team  
• Develop excellent stakeholder relationships. Ensure escalations are managed effectively and proactively and elevating if/when necessary
• Ensure effective timely communication to leadership and stakeholders
• Responsible for ensuring the highest level of customer service is maintained at all times
• Responsible for ensuring a high-quality, professional, and proactive service is delivered at all times
• Accountable for ensuring quality standards are met and maintained – ensuring all work is done to a high standard and that appropriate audits are undertaken as required
• Work with autonomy and apply critical thinking. Make decisions on complex issues and support the team in the resolution of issues
• Accountable for the accurate and timely resolution of all queries. Analyse complex issues and develop and implement solutions
• Manage team performance, provide coaching, and identify career development opportunities relevant to the team
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• Accountable for ensuring compliance with service level agreement, process, policies, and procedures
• Expert understanding of  HR systems including Workday and Employee Center including (Self Service, Knowledge base and Case Management) 
• Able to multi task and work on more than one issue simultaneously ensuring the prioritization of urgent requests 
• Develop and maintain an expert understanding of company policies to be able to interpret and explain company policy and not solely have to rely on the verbiage in the FAQ documents to resolve related inquiries
• Acts as the technical expert for the function and is consulted by key stakeholders on the policies and procedures related to the operations
• Provide guidance and direction to the team on policies, procedures, and management guidelines, act as the subject matter expert in these areas  
• Responsible for ensuring confidentiality is maintained at all times
• Accountable for ensuring adherence to audit and regulatory requirements both internal and external (i.e GDPR, AECOM Privacy Policy and SOX) ensuring the Company is compliant and risks are mitigated
• Lead and participate in audit activities as required
• Accountable for ensuring the SOP/DTP maintenance process. Ensure all documents are relevant and up to date and meet the needs of the business, ensuring the team work effectively and efficiently and are able to meet performance targets
• Responsible for Identifying and implementing process improvement initiatives to streamline processes, improve customer experience, and increase productivity
• Develop internal workflow processes, operating procedures, team schedules, and controls
• Responsible for ensuring all issues are investigated, root cause established. Develop and implement preventative actions and monitor effectiveness. Complete and communicate Incident Reports with stakeholders to ensure customer satisfaction 
• Provide regular performance and operational progress reports to GBS Leadership to ensure issues are being flagged on a timely manner and ensure gaps are addressed
• Develop and prepare reports and conduct analysis on resource utilization, performance against SLA targets, quality, and process efficiency
• Provide and present regular performance and operational progress reports to internal/external stakeholders ensuring issues are flagged, monitored, and resolved in a timely manner
• Lead and/or participate in governance meetings with internal/external stakeholders to discuss operational results, issues, strategies, and solutions to improve team’s performance
• Lead assigned projects. Ensure effective communication to all leadership and all stakeholders 
• Participate in planning, designing, testing, and implementation of new systems and/or new system enhancements
• Participates in reviewing and updating SLAs, identifying quality concerns and resolutions with active engagement and utilization of continuous improvement to establish best practices 
• Leads resourcing activities and actively involved in the full recruitment process for reviewing and assessing the best new talent for the team 
   

This role is responsible for the day-to-day processing of assigned payroll activities for the SEA region. The role will also further support junior members of the team by providing process guidance and leveraging expertise to solve complex process issues in compliance with relevant local regulations, policies, procedures, and methodologies to support the necessary audit requirements.

• Perform complex payroll activities in compliance with established procedures, strategies, and methodologies.
• Perform taxation, legislative and statutory obligations, effective processing and preparation of returns, document management, and maintenance of key processes.
• Lead and support in ensuring up-to-date processes and compliance with legislative, award, and other region-specific changes for accurate payroll processing.
• Contribute as a subject matter expert by applying technical expertise in the overall payroll process.
• Provide guidance and technical expertise to junior members of the team regarding query resolutions for unique cases and process exceptions, completing projects, and performing (sub-process) activities.
• Develop and prepare multiple reports, analyses, and presentations for periodic and ad hoc requirements.
•  Address critical and unique issues with the guidance of the Team Lead for timely resolution of escalated issues. Identify risks and propose ways to prevent the occurrence of similar issues and concerns.
• Work with Team Lead to develop process improvement initiatives to streamline processes, improve customer experience, and increase productivity.
•  Create and update SOP/DTP of current and new processes and incorporate documentation updates as required.
• Resolve identified issues and keep the Team Lead updated for open or ongoing concerns.
• Be involved in various and simultaneous process improvement initiatives to streamline processes, improve customer experience, and increase productivity.
• Facilitate audit-related programs.
• Perform complex tasks in compliance with service level agreements, processes, policies, procedures, and SOX & internal controls.
• Lead and support key projects, audit reviews, activities, and documentation.