Group Payroll & Benefits Manager
Gulf Marketing Group
Total years of experience :15 years, 11 Months
Develops working relationships with internal stakeholders to support successful delivery of HR Services and leverage partnership opportunities, collaborating with other teams to assist in operational delivery of assigned portfolios and support adherence to standards and policies.
Automate and implement SAP Standard Payroll standards across GCC to ensure smooth processing of monthly payments and all payroll and benefits related activities
Work closely with IT to support continuous optimization of HRMS SAP effective approaches to managing employee compensation and benefits and master data.
Assist all business for yearly budget requirements by providing accurate information.
Lead and manage the Group Medical Insurance Policy across GCC
Review and Reconcile Medical Insurance premium utilization rates on quarterly basis
Manage the Incentive Team and support them in delivering accurate monthly incentive calculation and payout adhering to company policy.
Review the Groups Travel requirements and select the best operating vendor for Business enabling best in market services.
Review Group staff discount policy on yearly basis.
Participate in incentive policy and SOP reviews and online automation along with the Incentive Manager
Assist all Business Heads for budgets and review of for annual costs and budgeting purpose.
Highlight to Business on how they can save costs in related to Overtime, Incentives or other Variable Payments.
HR budget preparation and support to HR HOD/Board Members.
Review and Approve all Final Settlement across GCC region prior to finance submission.
Perform monthly audit for all 14 payroll areas for business prior to finance submission.
Achievements
Automated the Overtime system across the group.
MIS - developed reports to analyze different activities with a view to save cost impact on the company
Lead and Implemented sales incentives for retail team across sports and non-sports divisions.
Streamlined system information and worked on discrepancies under staff contract, resulting in cost savings amounting to Dhs 200, 000 per month.
Updated Employee missing records for around 2, 000 staff across the group
Implementation of Air Encashment Policy - saving of 1 Million AED Annually.
Leading RSH Al Futtaim acquisition from HR Financial across Middle East and SEA region.
Centralization of Departments and process across the Payroll and Benefit department for optimal utilization of SAP ( 100% for Payroll Module)
Documentation of current process and creation of Inter-Department SOP’s
Managed and lead payroll of 11 countries from MENA with over 22, 000+ employees paid via 11 different payroll countries - United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Egypt & Pakistan
Dealt with multi locations and employees and applied critical problem-solving strategies to resolve issues
Reviewed, reconciled and verified Payroll data and analyzed reports like variation, trending analysis reports - weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual
Recorded all activities and calculates all achievements in metrics to view performance in each area
Coordinated with Compensation & Benefit team on All Pay structures and Benefits implementation / automation
Coordination with HR & Finance Department for all Cost Allocations. Pay cross functional role, prepared reports for Senior Management review on Employee Payments, Variable Reporting and disbursement, Time Entries etc.
Streamlined and optimized processed resulting in cost savings
Performed HR systems regression testing and test SAP Payroll upgrades and releases to ensure bug-free information systems. Conducted regular data quality audits to detect errors. Worked on SAP RHL environment.
Achievements
Automated Country Pay Plans / Bonus Structures via SAP which resulted in time saving of 4hours/each payroll cycle.
Standardized Template for calculation of End of Service calculation, country-wise.
Successfully Completed Payroll Playbook with best practices
Taxation Automation for Egypt and Pakistan
FICA and US Medicare Automation
Overtime Automation for Saudi, Oman, Qatar, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan.
Coordinated with IT service providers and IT Governance on non-data related problems as needed.
Coordinated with vendors on application related issues and come up with solutions
Provided necessary training to the users. Ensured functional and technical documentations were updated.
Assisted HR Process Manager and HR IT Project Manager as needed.
Conducted regular data quality audits to detect errors. Suggested measure in technical and process areas to avoid issues. Also ensure industry standards and accounting laws are followed
Prepared training material in compliance with all applicable Schlumberger standards and policies.
Was responsible for payroll supervision of over 1600+ employees based in Oman paid via 4 different payrolls
Prepared MIS reports on Vacation, Sick Leave, Work Accident, Over Time. Worked on Ramco software.
Maintained data integrity of the payroll database by conducting regular audits and reviews
EOSB - End of Service Benefits Settlement processing.
Administered Schlumberger Middle East Pension Plan of Zurich contributions for over 5000 employees monthly for Region under different Contracts.
Conducted Open Houses / Meetings for on the Fields Employees and Location Bases to connect and understand issues. Promote the concept of employee engagement and develop better communication and employee relations within cross functional departments
Achievements
ERP System transformation from Oracle to SAP as during Smith integration phase
Trained Payroll Administrators for countries on the Zurich pension schemes across MENA Region
Completed Payroll Document for New Hub transition in Kuala Lumpur
Successfully completed the documentation for AskHr Queries for Employee Shared Services for Kuala Lumpur.
I have worked in UAE and Malaysia.
Handled multi-currency payroll of over 3000+ employees across the region both local & international
Worked on JD Edwards and Lawson, Infiniun, Ramco software
Planned and managed payroll activities - Bonus allocation, Accruals, Calculation of Over Time & Operators Bonus with Local Coefficient / Area Premiums Successfully trained candidates from Qatar, KSA and Oman
KPMG exposure for recording Tax Details
Achievements
Implemented Online Banking payment method through S2B - Standard Chartered online banking system
Streamlined the Wage Protection System - WPS
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