Description
Salesforce is currently seeking an experienced Compensation and Benefits Accounting and Compliance Manager, to support the organization’s strategy, growth, and operational excellence. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Global Process Owner Compensation and Benefits Accounting, the role will be part of the Controllership team.
This position is based in our finance hub in Dublin. The Manager will need to have a global attitude—understanding particular country, regional and local differences and requirements, while seeking to drive consistency with global approaches and processes.
This role will help strengthen our compliance environment by partnering with employee benefits teams around the world to help identify compliance obligations and potential gaps, and to design compliant business processes consistent with our focus on a world class employee experience.
The Manager will need to be comfortable continuously flexing in the face of the constantly changing external and internal environment, running with the pace of the business and delivering on multiple simultaneous priorities.
The Manager will have deep experience in conducting risk assessments, gap analyses, business process design and improvement, benefits management, monitoring and auditing, coupled with substantial subject matter expertise in INTL benefits-related compliance and/or employment law.
This hire will have a passion for delving into the complexities of compliance requirements, helping distill them into layperson’s terms, and translating them into business process and system requirements. They will drive projects from start to finish, working collaboratively within a small team and with a vast array of business partners across the globe.
What You Will Do
Own Compensation & Benefits accounting compliance governance across International region, balancing global standards with local requirements and documented exceptions.
Define, maintain, and continuously improve the Compliance & Controls Playbook (standards, evidence, RACI, and exception handling) for payroll/benefits accounting processes and interfaces.
Monitor global/local benefits and employee taxation compliance, coordinating with external advisors and internal stakeholders to ensure appropriate documentation and oversight.
Partner with Employee Success, Finance, Payroll, Business Technology, and Legal/Compliance to understand requirements, perform risk assessments and gap analyses, align priorities, and translate needs into process and system controls.
Perform periodic audit/QA reviews of payroll processing and Accounting Center activity against the Playbook; document findings, quantify impacts, and drive remediation plans to closure.
Run case management for non-compliance and ad hoc issues (triage, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, documentation, stakeholder communications, and closure validation).
Determine and govern reserves consistently across the region (methodology, assumptions, schedules, and review cadence), ensuring alignment with Country Controllers and audit expectations.
Define and drive the path to compliance for identified gaps, coordinating actions across Payroll and other teams; track milestones, risks, and outcomes through to completion.
Champion compliance-by-design in new initiatives, projects, and systems, ensuring controls and documentation are embedded from the start.
Ensure SOX compliance by supporting documentation, testing, monitoring, and continuous improvement of policies, internal controls, systems, and processes.
Drive automation, simplification, and standardization of accounting and reporting processes; implement scalable best practices and improve efficiency.
Business partner with Works Councils, Country Controllers, and executive leadership, providing clear risk/issue reporting, decision support, and escalations as needed.
Contribute to cross-functional regional/global accounting engagements and lead ad hoc finance projects as required.
Who You Are
8+ years' experience in benefits/payroll compliance, accounting operations, controllership, or risk & controls in a complex, multi-country environment (global company experience required; Big 4 a plus).
Demonstrated experience owning a process governance framework or playbook, including control design, required evidence, exception handling, and continuous improvement.
Proven capability to run compliance monitoring, audits, or QA reviews; document findings, quantify impact, and drive remediation to closure.
Strong understanding of accounting for healthcare, pensions, and risk benefits (and appetite to learn adjacent benefit areas).
Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Accounting/Finance or related field; ACA/CPA preferred.
Working knowledge of US GAAP/IFRS and local GAAP, and experience operating in a SOX (or equivalent) control environment.
Ability to present information in an executive, professional and easy-to-understand way.
Experience with various data and reporting tools; e.g Tableau, Snowflake, AI.