Work's getting really tough these times. I had to spend a lot of after-work hours catching up with the work transition within my team. I will be managing the Korean Expatriate Services / Payroll market for Procter and Gamble Asia Pte Ltd starting Monday. There were fewer issues as compared to the other Asian expat markets that my colleagues are handling so the thought was like a sigh of relief. However, there are still accounts that need to be reconciled by next week. In addition to the monthly loan accounts reconciliation, there are still tax issues in Japan that I need to address. The tax structure and filiing process is not as straightforward as that of Korea or even the Philippines', so I've also been bugging a lot of our Tax consultants from Deloitte & Touche Tohmatsu to walk me through the entire process for the time being. The drafting of a proposal to have this operation transferred to the Local Payroll or the Asia Relocation Services is also in the works. However, as we study the "as-is" process and think of possible streamlining strategies, I took the responsibility of acting tax assistant to the Payroll Administrator for the Japan Expatriate and Relocation Services. "OVERLOAD" best describes (literally and figuratively) the past three weeks for me. All the while I thought I had already been introduced to the bulk of work that I would attend to,but last Thursday when we were discussing Tax and Accounts Reconciliation, while performing several parallel tests of the newly introduced SAP system for the Gross-to-Net and Employee Compensation processing, I realized that the bulk was just a chunk of a much much much greater bulk of work waiting. I never understood the work of these people when I joined the company more than a couple of months ago, i.e, how come they stay in the office until the wee hours of the morning. Now i've changed perspectives. Oh no, my social life is so threatened!
