DESCRIPTION

The AR Compliance Regional Lead role in Finance Operations will be accountable for supporting effective and efficient solution launch for the region. The Regional AR Compliance Lead will report to Global AR compliance Lead as AR SME and support in Regional AR overall compliance in terms of sequencing, scope and inter dependencies specific to the geography. They will drive the immediate, near, mid and long-term planning for AR compliance to regulatory regime changes. They will understand, represent and plan for the requirements coming from all their geographies, upstream functions, the insights from product and business, the inter dependencies with Tax, Regulatory and technology advancements. They will work across Orgs and support PMO in the Portfolio QBR and MBR. They will ensure AR compliance program charters to ensure that projects are structured correctly at the regional level and assess and mitigate inter dependency risk and opportunity.

AR Compliance Regional Lead will work with cross-functional groups to improve design of our technology solutions and organize AR processes to speed the adaptation to rapid regulatory changes, reduce manual work, and mitigate controllership and compliance risks. Enable shift toward a proactive approach and have audit readiness for compliance, agility through automation and elevating the vendor / customer experience. Support AR compliance in driving AR related tax regime changes as a holistic program supported by project teams in each country.

Key job responsibilities
– Oversee the end-to-end AR Compliance processes in relation to indirect taxes, billing, collections and cash application related regulatory regional compliance.
-Develop, document and ensure adequate processes for handling Compliance risks and audit.
– Work with tax and regional compliance and tech teams to ensure adequate information is being recorded in the AR systems as may be required for the purpose of AR compliance audit
– Establish a robust framework for E-Invoice solution that can be replicated for new geographies with country-specific customization’s entailing additional development work.
– Own the process and work related to indirect tax related audit matters for country level specifications and overall region. Assist with evaluating the tax effect and implications of international business initiatives, contemplated transactions, and business proposals, from a tax compliance and audit perspective
– Work with internal stakeholders to gather required information for effective management of audit and compliance process
– work with internal and external business partners, identify and implement process improvement opportunities and drive positive change across the AR organization.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 6+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
– 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
– 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
– 4+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
– 4+ years of identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes experience
– 3+ years of finance or a related analytical field experience
– Bachelor’s degree in engineering, statistics or business, or Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of quantitative role (engineering, process re-engineering, quality assurance) experience
– Six Sigma Black Belt

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– 4+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
– MBA, or CPA
– Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (examples: SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (examples: Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards)