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Going Global
by
Jeff Fenter & Alex de Lorraine
California Payroll Conference September 11 and 12, 2014
Bit of Bio
Jeff Fenter
Jeff Fenter is the Senior Manager of Global Employment Tax at Google Inc. and
responsible for compliance, strategy and audit defense in 57 countries. Previous
to joining Google, Jeff was a Director of Employment Tax Consulting at PwC. Jeff
has over 18 years of experience as a employment tax professional responsible
for developing and implementing strategies to manage the complications of
domestic and global payroll and employment tax issues.
Alex de Lorraine
Alex de Lorraine is Head of North America Payroll Operations at Google Inc. and
Motorola Mobility. Previous to joining the payroll department he was managing
Global Invoice Operations for Google’s European, Middle Eastern and African
entities. Alex has over 12 years of experience developing and implementing
strategies, improving complex processes, managing projects and operations.
Going Global
Global Employment Tax & Compliance
Jeff Fenter
California Payroll Conference September 11 and 12, 2014
Global Tax - Environment
US based corporations/businesses growing outside of the US
Financial needs of governments
New legislation and taxes
Increased audit activity
Overall focus on Risk and Governance
Primary Areas of Tax Compliance
Accuracy Timeliness
Payment of
Taxes /
Remittances
Filings &
Returns
Withholding &
Taxation
Who is responsible for tax &
compliance?
Who is Responsible?
Who is Accountable?
The person assigned the work
Who is Consulted?
Who is Informed?
The person who makes the final
decision and is the ultimate owner
The person who needs to be
consulted before the final decision
The person who must be informed
that a decision has been made
Structuring a Global Tax Department
Centralized
Decentralized
Central management with local delivery
Shared Service
Center?
Co-Sourcing?
Tax Centers?
Global Tax – Organizational Design
Considerations / Questions Common
denominator
Who will you interact with STAKEHOLDERS
What services will you provide SERVICES
How will you interact with stakeholders CHANNELS
How will the business operate PROCESSES
What metrics and data will you rely on INFORMATION
What systems will you use TECHNOLOGY
How will you be structured ORGANIZATION
What resources and skills are needed PEOPLE
Where will you be located LOCATIONS
Tax – People, Process, Technology
People Roles:
Governance
Source of knowledge (SME)
Managing law and regulation changes
New Programs implementation
Understanding and managing tax authorities
Audits and audit strategy
Communications and reporting out
Vendor management
Tax – People, Process, Technology
Process Roles:
Record retention
Exposure analysis and risk assessment tracking and mgmt.
Change management
Audit management
Technology Roles:
Payroll process & intakes
Benefits process & intakes
HR process & intakes
Monitoring processes
Challenges
Who is responsible for compliance and how does that interact with tax?
Tax and compliance is impacted by HR, Fiance, Payroll, Compensation, Legal, and many more that have opinions, concerns, and exposure related to tax compliance
Is tax a “consultant” or is tax a “decision maker”?
Are roles and responsibilities clearly defined? Globally vs. Regionally?
Are relationships strong and working?
Are skills and resources better served at the local location vs. a regional or global location
People – recruitment, training, retention
Technology or lack of technology
Thank you for your attention
Going Global
Global Payroll Operations
Alex de Lorraine
California Payroll Conference September 11 and 12, 2014
Automating Source to Gross
Original Business Problem
Our Solution: gPayroll
Quick Demo
Impact
Remaining Gaps/Longer Term Vision
Discussion
Problem: Cycle Time
Why did we bother?
Extensive manual processes required to prepare input files for 33
different EMEA PSPs and do 100% validation and reconciliation
Related Issues
Data quality was fragile - both inputs and outputs – exclusive
reliance on manual diligence
Insufficient controls – could easily forget a file or step
Downstream Effect
Stale data
Delayed one-time payments
Poor employee experience, especially for new hires
Our solution: gPayroll
Allows us to import all pay-impacting source files
Converts data into local currency as needed
Parses files by country as needed
Merges & Transforms data into a format our PSPs can consume
Executes validation routines on this data to flag erroneous records
Enables review & auditable correction of input errors/warnings
Provides a control point to ensure all required files are uploaded
Zips and encrypts files prior to them being sent to PSPs
Reconciles return files from PSPs against inputs
Serves as an archive for all payroll inputs in prior pay periods
Quick Demo
Demo
gPayroll - The Homepage
gPayroll - Entity Selection
gPayroll – Germany Home
gPayroll – Pay cycle overview
gPayroll – Upload Data
gPayroll / Validations
gPayroll – Validations cont.
gPayroll – Merge Outputs
gPayroll – Encrypt and Send
gPayroll - Reconciliation
gPayroll – Reconciliation cont.
gPayroll – Reconciliation Errors
gPayroll - Archive
Impact
Shaved off 5 days from our processing cycle.
4 days on the source to gross side.
1 day on the reconciliation side.
In Ireland in first month live (Nov’13), gPayroll allowed us to include:
67 new hires
80+ job changes, and
300+ bonuses which would otherwise have been pushed to Dec payroll.
We now have the tool live in 55 countries for some portion of the
payroll process. We are now continuing increasing the usability
including integrating a task management workflow.
What impact did gPayroll have?
Shaved off 5 days from our processing cycle.
4 days on the source to gross side.
1 day on the reconciliation side.
In Ireland in first month live (Nov’13), gPayroll allowed us to
include:
67 new hires
80+ job changes, and
300+ bonuses which would otherwise have been pushed to
Dec payroll.
We now have the tool live in 55 countries for some portion of the
payroll process.
What's next?
Establish direct interfaces with all source systems
Leverage return files from PSPs for global adhoc reporting
Provide global consistency of output files where our PSPs cannot (GL Feed, Global Banking, Stock Recon Tool, etc)
Organize data by employee to create a powerful admin tool for the payroll customer support team
Incorporate task/ workflow/ compliance management so that there is one central hub for all operational activities in Payroll
Create a management dashboard to improve operational oversight
Enable secure file transmission/download access for PSPs
Discussion
How do your cycle times and business cutoffs compare to Google’s?
How does your company handle source to gross file prep?
Still manual? Using an aggregator? More accommodating PSPs? Custom interfaces to PSPs? Other home-grown tools?
What level of reconciliations do you perform and using what tools?
Eyeballing? Excel? Or None - It’s the PSP’s job to get it right the first time?
Do you have a a global reporting solution?
Do you have a task management/checklist solution?
How do you conduct research when responding to employee queries?
If we open-sourced gPayroll, would you be interested in using it and contributing to it’s development?
Thank you for your attention
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