Senior Team Manager role is accountable for indirect Tax filing & reporting for assigned countries within EMEA/LATAM region with the team of avg. 10 employees responsible for Tax compliance, payments, audit and selected Tax Advisory activities.

Delivery of annual Shell Tax reporting & filing obligations results in submission of 40k+ returns/reports & 20k+ payments and management of 50b+ USD Tax amounts. Most of these requirements relate to Manage Indirect Tax (MIT) – value & volume Taxes managed from all 4 Shell Business Operations centers. Our global Tax team of 600+ colleagues is professionally very skilled, resilient and committed to timely & quality delivery of our process outcomes. We have well established CI mindset culture and drive for further competencies development. Additionally, MIT is undergoing global digitalization program 4T (Transforming Tax Technology Together).

1. Accountability for indirect Tax compliance in the region:

• Drive high quality, timely compliance targets execution for migrated scope
• Supervise compliance delivery in „remote countries” in the region incl. management of 3rd parties
• Proactively cooperate within Tax, FO, Finance & Group to optimize compliance processes and drive ESSA

2. Responsibility for timely and quality delivery of other tax activities e.g. Audit, Advise, etc. including building effective management of these activities together with onshore stakeholders
3. Build & maintain close working relationship with CTLs dedicated to assigned countries and manage Tax compliance accountabilities for them
4. Proactively drive automation developments and co-create FO Tax digitalization vision
5. Ensure delivery of compliance metrics and efficiency targets
6. Manage controls and risks for assigned scope
7. Promote learning mindset and optimize learnings from errors, incidents and near misses
8. Proactively engage in external benchmarking initiatives
9. Lead of team of Tax Specialists delivering excellent Top Quartile process

• Degree in Finance/Accountancy, with at least 8 years' business experience in Finance area
• At least 2 years of experience in people managing area
• Understanding of the current end-2-end Finance processes/systems/data framework
• Excellent communications/stakeholder engagement skills, both written and oral
• Excellent strategic, analytical, problem solving, continuous improvement and critical thinking
• Self-starter, effectively balancing highly independent management of assigned region with close pro-active collaboration with FO TLT and other strategic forums/frameworks
• Tax (e.g. VAT, WHT, Excise Duties, Direct Tax, Reporting) experience preferred but not mandatory
• Effective & passionate line manager (demonstrate high leadership qualities, leading through change, secure team’s well-being, care and work/life balance, ensure sustainable knowledge management & continuous growth of staff capabilities)
• Building & maintaining highly effective stakeholders’ network
• Actively develop Tax & business expertise relevant to assigned countries
• Proactively share knowledge & expertise with peers & colleagues
• Fluent English