Tax Analyst

The purpose of this role is to ensure that the markets' tax processes, including VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental taxes, and other supplementary returns, are undertaken accurately, efficiently, and on time.

The role will support the successful implementation and ongoing operation of the Global Tax processes, controls, and automation tools under the new Tax Operating model.

Responsibilities:

• Preparing VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental taxes, and connected supplementary returns in accordance with global standard process and controls, utilising automation tools where applicable
• Working closely with tax seniors to ensure compliance with market-specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes
• Supporting routine VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental taxes, and other tax-related audit enquiries and projects for your markets under the supervisory of the Tax Lead (Team leader)
• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring these are done on time and in an internal and external control-compliant way
• Actively handling tax document retention for your markets
• Supplying to the continuous improvement of the tax compliance processes through establishing a LEAN approach to drive effectiveness and efficiency
• Embedding and operating the new controls and KPI reports, supervising the implanted KPI-s, investigating root-cause or errors, and working with end-to-end processes to improve KPIs
• Ensuring the Tax Calendar is supervised and filled-in in a timely and quality manner
• Promptly responding to market queries in respect of markets in their responsibility and supporting direct tax leaders, business partners, SME-s in non-routine questions, projects, and during tax audits in their competency

Requirements:

• Qualified graduate economist with at least 1 year post-qualification finance experience (internship counts as well)
• Experience at an operational level in tax, controls, and risk management is an advantage
• Experience in working with SAP is an advantage
• Strong analytical and questioning skills
• Good numerical skills and confident Excel usage
• Able to work with tight deadlines
• Attention to details and overview of the business: able to operate at the detailed level when necessary but always focuses on the big picture
• Self-motivated and well-organised approach to work

Benefits:

• Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
• We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.