Indirect Tax Center of Excellence’s mission is to facilitate that a quality reconciled accounting analysis is available for all tax computations any financial impacts of external tax audits are minimized and company VAT returns are accurate and submitted on a timely basis.
Indirect Tax Analyst should cover the full VAT operational activities in their work and are primarily responsible for the timely preparation and submission of the countries’ VAT return.
- Execute all tasks/activities in a timely manner and as prescribed in the VAT return guidelines and process book including
- collection validation and processing data
- preparation submission and verification of VAT return
- transfer of funds to local tax authorities
- input of monthly journal entries and vouchers
- Complete balance sheet account reconciliations including monthly commentary analysis
- Perform other reconciliations such as the VAT return to balance sheet reconciliation base revenue reconciliation statutory VAT reconciliation
- Work together and co-operate with fellow Indirect Tax Analyst and/or Support Analyst
- Support Tax audits/queries and the local Tax team when input needed from the CoE
- Support the IDT CoE Team Leads and Management in ad-hoc projects and queries
- Looking for and communicate errors/weaknesses and improvement possibilities in the workflow
- Any other task requested to be fulfilled by the direct supervisor which is coming from the nature of the position or is in connection with the job tasks or required by the tasks/responsibilities/scope of activities of the given position.
· Applied accounting skills
· Applied skills in using MS Excel spreadsheets
· Good English communication skills both written and oral
· Good problem solving skills and ability to collaborate across different functions
· Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
· VAT knowledge an advantage but not essential