Accounting Team Manager
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22 hours ago
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Job Summary
Reference No: 3143
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Elevate Your Career with Zalaris
Zalaris is a rapidly expanding global leader in Tech HR and payroll solutions.
Were big enough for you to grow and be a part of an international environment but small enough for you to be visible and truly make a difference.
We foster open communication and short decision-making paths that encourage creative and innovative thinking.
Zalaris culture is rooted in values inspired by Nordic working ethos: everyone matters aiming high and team spirit. Were committed to building a diverse inclusive and authentic workplace where everyone brings their own uniqueness. Zalaris employees come from different backgrounds cultures and walks of life and we are proud of it.
Role Summary
The Team Manager Accounting will lead a team of 5-12 employeesresponsible for end-to-end accounting operations ensuring accurate compliant and timely financial processes. The ideal candidate will have a strong accounting background hands-on SAP end-user experience and proven leadership capabilities to manage daily operations drive process improvements and ensure service delivery excellence. Makes variety of decisions some complex in nature predominately affecting own area of responsibility. Required to identify assess and resolve complex issues/problems within own area of responsibility. Operates largely independently within set guidelines but managerial guidance available if sought. End results are generally defined but interpretative judgement is required to meet these. Works to clearly defined budgetary parameters and targets. Sufficient work experience/job knowledge to enable the analysis of principles and concepts. Defines standards and reusable approaches within own area of responsibility. Required to maintain effective internal/external customer/user relationships within own area of responsibility.
Your Responsibilities
Operational Management:
- Ensures that services are delivered according to SLAs to clients served from own team such as timeliness of pay accuracy of payment timely service request handling in C4C etc.
- Monitors reports and analyses KPIs around service excellence and customer satisfaction of clients served from own team
- Plans and takes immediate corrective actions whenever KPIs or SLAs are not met and addresses critical customer issues without delays
- Ensures prompt timely and efficient payroll deliveries to customer according to payroll calendar and customer expectations
- Responsible for testing and taking into production of system changes and improvements and supports the efficient change management process
- Prioritizes and delegates team work efficiently
- Ensures that Zalaris relevant controls and policies are implemented and followed
- Proactively drives near/offshoring transition activities for own customers and productivity and cost efficiency improvements in own team
- Proactively drives continuous improvement activities in own team
- Promotes Lean way of working and ensures that Lean morning meetings are held
- Promotes internal co-operation with other Zalaris functions and sites
Personnel Management:
- Acts as line manager for team members
- Ensures correct time writing in own team
- Ensures that the Performance Management and Goal setting (PMGM) process is held timely and SMART targets are set to all employees in the team
- Addresses critical team issues without delays and provides guidance to team members
- Workforce planning: Ensures that sufficient and competent resources are available in the team when needed
- Creates good working atmosphere motivation and engagement in the team
- Communicates organizations strategy goals and values to the team members
- Demonstrates trust in all team members; is approachable and accessible
- Provides feedback on performance and identifies opportunities and approaches for maximizing team performance
- Ensures competence issues are tackled and competence levels are continuously developed inside own team
- Follows up and reports on sick leave in the team
Requirements
Team Leadership: Lead motivate and develop a team of accounting and payroll professionals fostering a high-performance culture and continuous improvement mindset.
- Operational Excellence: Oversee daily accounting processes including Accounts Payable (AP) Accounts Receivable (AR) General Ledger (GL) Bank Reconciliations Book keeping and other relevant accounting functions.
Payroll Accounting Oversight: Manage end-to-end payroll accounting processes including payroll postings reconciliations accruals and compliance reporting.
SAP Operations: Act as an experienced SAP end user ensuring accurate and efficient handling of payroll and accounting transactions within SAP systems.
Process Management: Ensure smooth execution of payroll personnel administration and accounting activities while maintaining compliance with internal controls local laws and audit standards.
Regulatory Compliance: Maintain up-to-date knowledge of labor laws social security taxation and payroll-related regulations to ensure all activities adhere to statutory requirements.
Customer Collaboration: Serve as a primary contact for clients ensuring service excellence timely issue resolution and strong customer satisfaction.
Outsourcing Environment: Leverage prior experience in outsourced service delivery (HR/payroll/accounting/IT) to optimize processes and strengthen client partnerships.
Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate proactively with other Team Managers and Zalaris management to align goals share best practices and enhance overall operational performance.
Continuous Improvement: Identify and drive opportunities for process automation efficiency and quality enhancement.
What we offer
- A strategic role with the opportunity to impact the organization significantly.
- Collaboration with an innovative and supportive leadership team.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.
Ready to become part of our team Join us at Zalaris and be a part of a vibrant collaborative community of Tech HR and payroll experts dedicated to grow and innovate. #team Zalaris
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Internal Audit
- Supervising
- Data Entry
- Compliance
- Customer Service
- Accounting & Finance
- General Ledger Accounting
- IFRS
- External Audit
- Microsoft Excel
- ERP
- Payroll
- Financial statement
- ACCA
- CPA
About Company
Zalaris helps organisations streamline HR and payroll processes across geographies, industries and technology platforms including SAP, Oracle, Workday and CornerStone.
