Description
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The EMEA Indirect Tax Compliance Transformation Lead will report to the Global Indirect Tax Compliance Lead. This is a hands-on operational and transformation role responsible for supporting indirect tax compliance across EMEA in a co-sourced model and helping shape a more centralised, standardised, data-driven and technology-enabled tax function.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and coordinate Indirect Tax Compliance transformation initiatives, keeping plans, risks, issues and decisions up to date and escalating where needed.
- Support transformation governance, including updates, workstream check-ins and status reporting, to enable timely decisions and clear accountability.
- Carry out structured current-state assessments across EMEA to support centralising, standardising, simplifying or automating activities, and help prioritise initiatives by value, risk and effort.
- Coordinate internal transitions of compliance activities using a structured approach.
- Support change management including impact assessments and stakeholder, communication and readiness plans.
- Maintain standard process documentation and develop practical training and knowledge materials.
- Support the build-out and development of the in-house analyst team.
- Conduct post-implementation reviews and capture lessons learned.
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement:
- Help develop and maintain the EMEA indirect tax compliance governance framework.
- Support improvement plans, scope changes and the onboarding of new activities.
- Use operational data, SLA and KPI trends and root cause analysis to identify recurring and cross-country issues.
- Build and maintain a prioritised continuous improvement pipeline.
- Support audit readiness across EMEA.
- Explore and help pilot new technology opportunities.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax, Business.
- Solid experience in EMEA indirect tax compliance.
- Practical experience in tax process transformation, migration, operating model change or continuous improvement.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional projects or workstreams.
- Experience working in or with outsourced and/or shared service compliance providers.
- Practical experience with ERP and tax technology solutions.
- Solid understanding of transactional data flows, controls and reconciliations relevant to indirect tax reporting.