The Senior Direct Tax Specialist role is designed for supporting and delivering activities carried out by the Manage Direct Tax team (MDT). It provides a very good exposure on Direct Tax Compliance and Group Reporting. The role also involves individual contributor responsibilities, primarily as a preparer of a limited number of high complex/material legal entities in Latin America.
Key Responsibilities:
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Deliver on time and accurate tax calculation and reporting of Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Direct Tax Provisions and related Advance Tax payments;
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Understand and operate tax provisioning and compliance tools;
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Understand Group Accounting and Reporting changes and enable incorporation of changes in the process as may be relevant;
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Prepare Monthly (or ad-hoc) Tax Returns;
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Support the onshore team in Annual Tax Return Preparation;
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Ensure timely submission of internal reports for direct tax reconciliation to the controllers;
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Responsible for various tax accounts reconciliation;
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Provide Quarterly submission of direct tax key performance indicators;
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Resolve complex direct tax issues, liaise with counter-parties and other departments on variances reconciliations, plausibility checks, dry-run analysis;
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Support quarterly and annual audit support (internal, external and Tax Authorities);
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Develop templates and collate information to respond inquiries from tax authorities and internal stakeholders;
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Providing strong support to Business Groups in their control of business related tax risks with accuracy and timely;
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Owning the SOX controls and responsible for their effectiveness;
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Support and work on transition additional/new scope migrations of MDT activities.
Skills & Requirements:
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University degree (Law, Economy, Finance, Accounting preferable)
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Minimum of 4-5 years of experience in accounting/finance in multinational environment
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Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in Direct Tax calculation and Tax Return preparation
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Knowledge of international direct tax standards
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Experience of using a major ERP system such as SAP, SUN, JDE, Oracle, PeopleSoft will be beneficial
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Excellent Microsoft Office skills, specially Excel tool
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Very good communication skills
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Comfortable working under time pressure situations
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Effective stakeholder management
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Comfortable working under time pressure
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Fluent English