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Country Research Specialist III
Note -Rimini is located in Pleasanton, CA but this individual can work remotely in North America (Canada/US) and must be bilingual, French and English fluency required.
Rimini Street delivers proven exceptional value in third-party support for enterprise software. The innovative, ultra-responsive support program allows Oracle and SAP licensees to save at least 50 percent in annual support fees, and to receive premium services that are not part of standard vendor support.
Hundreds of global, Fortune 500, mid-market, and public sector organizations from virtually all industries depend on Rimini Street as their trusted, expert, independent provider of support, so they can apply more of their IT budgets to strategic business enterprise software initiatives.
Position Summary
This position is responsible for conducting research on tax and legislative changes related to Financial Reporting, Payroll and Human Resources occurring in Canada and other assigned countries. Interpreting and documenting new and changed legislation that will affect our ERP development teams. Assisting the Global Tax & Regulatory Research team to accomplish our goals and objectives.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
• Ensuring up to date awareness of legislative changes in assigned countries through a variety of sources, such as governmental websites, agencies, and third party companies and in country experts.
• Interpreting and documenting new and changed legislation for specific countries, in our internal source repository.
• Organizing and communicating information, clearly disclosing the details needed product specialists to make necessary system changes.
• Ensuring complete tax and regulatory compliance of our total client base including SAP, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards and EBS and subscription clients.
• Prepare comparative analysis of changes to efile specification releases from various taxing jurisdictions by sourcing, verifying, and documenting those changes.
• Communicate effectively with tax jurisdictions on file specifications and changes to various regulatory processes.
• Acting as the liaison with multiple internal Development, Functional Analysis, PSE(Primary Support Engineer) and QA (Quality Assurance) organizations ensuring accurate dissemination of information relating to legislative changes and their implementation for our client base.
• Communicate effectively across various organizations within Rimini Street.
• Contribute ideas that promote new and effective ways of doing business and promote team effectiveness.
• Be committed to excellence and high quality standards.
Additional Duties & Responsibilities
(other job related duties and responsibilities that may be assigned from time to time)
Assist GTR management on the following as needed
• Various projects and research
• Internal and external communications and documentation
• Sales, Marketing and Client research and communications and presentations
• Perform RDE (Regional Domain Expert) responsibilities as needed
Minimal Qualifications
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Knowledge of pay practices, compensation and benefit practices, and federal and state reporting/filing requirements and or Financial Reporting
• Must be results oriented, consistent high performer in meeting and exceeding goals
• Must have tolerance for ambiguity to effectively cope with change and multiple priorities within strict timeframes.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work well with other groups within the organization.
Education
• Bachelor´s Degree related to accounting, finance, business administration, human resources, information systems or equivalent related experience.
Experience
• 3-5 years of work experience in the tax, financial accounting or HR/payroll for Canada.
• Proven ability to research effectively from a computer through the internet and have knowledge of business computer applications including Microsoft Office.
Skills
• Ability to work with the Sales and Marketing organizations to assist with prospect sales presentations, marketing presentation, and related materials and events that will showcase and demonstrate Rimini Street's industry leadership in tax & regulatory compliance deliverables.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work well with other groups within the delivery organization.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and be proactive in completing tasks and taking on new responsibilities and anticipate additional requests for information.
• Foreign Language Skills – French Canadian is required
• Proficient with Microsoft Office applications: Word, Excel
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work well with internal and external customers.
Desired Qualifications
• Experience with PeopleSoft, SAP, BSI, or mid-market HR/Payroll systems
• Canadian Payroll Compliance Practitioner (PCP)
• Canadian Certified Payroll Manager (CPM)
• Certified Payroll Professional (CPP)
• Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC)
• Proven international experience with payroll, tax, regulatory compliance and reporting.
• Transaction tax background
• Supervisory experience
Rimini Street is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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