Purpose and overall relevance for the organization:
Supporting the Head of Indirect Tax in the preparation and implementation of indirect tax strategies globally.
Responsibilities:
1. Together with your colleagues, you'll be part of a global center of expertise for indirect taxation (VAT/GST, etc.), withholding taxes and all related issues
2. Ensuring in collaboration with the regional tax leads that the global strategy is executed properly at market level (governance role)
3. Business partnering and point of contact for Global Functions, GBS Systems and Control & Analytics team and the regional tax leads
4. Advising and supporting operating units regarding the structuring and tax optimization of intra-company supply and service relationships for indirect taxes
5. Working closely with the tax technology teams to ensure compliant VAT and WHT systems and processes
6. Supporting the analysis and optimization of tax processes within the tax department, especially project-specific with regard to the use of IT support solutions
7. Participation and support in tax audits
Knowledge, skills and abilities :
8. Good indirect tax knowledge, and general knowledge of the most important international tax regulations
9. Deep business understanding of processes and structures
10. Affinity to tax technology and preferably some basic SAP knowledge
11. High customer focus to ensure they understand tax requirements and increase willingness to comply with them
12. Maneuverability in a constantly changing environment according to new processes in the company as well as constantly changing tax law
13. Ability to work cross-functionally with different departments and subsidiaries and develop an understanding of external business drivers
14. Experience in project management
Required education and experience / Minimum requirement:
15. Completed university and technical college education / MBA
16. In-depth knowledge of indirect taxation
17. Basic knowledge of corporate tax and international tax law
18. At least 5 years of professional experience in the field of indirect tax in an international corporation or a Big4 auditing company
19. A healthy amount of initiative and commitment
20. Good English language skills and familiarity with computer-aided work and communication tools