Tax Professional

Introduction
We are looking for a smart passionate and experienced Corporate Tax professional to join our Spanish tax team based in Madrid. The Spanish tax team consists of 3 persons covering VAT CIT and the position will be reporting into the Country Tax Manager for Spain & Portugal. You will be a key player in the team and function in a multi-national and multi-cultural environment focused on handling corporate tax compliance matters tax analysis and internal reporting. To succeed you must be smart a self-starter able to grasp complex situations quickly and have a hands-on approach a passion to ‘get things done’ and a ‘can-do’ attitude.

Your Role and Responsibilities
Tax compliance
• Continuously monitor corporate tax legislation changes and address impact for the company.
• Review complex corporate income tax returns & provisional tax payments for the Spanish entities of the IBM group. These activities are prepared by the Direct Tax Support Center based in Argentina.
• Timely identifying possible exposures in tax returns and report them.
Tax accounting and reporting
• Assist with the preparation of timely accurate and efficient calculation of the monthly quarterly and annual US GAAP tax provision for IBM’s Spanish entities both current and deferred taxes.
• Review Tax Disclosures for the Financial Statements.
• Assist with monitoring tax risks provisions (FIN48) cash tax position and effective tax rate.
• Assist with various SOX related compliance matters.
• Review internal tax reports prepared by Direct Tax Support Center.
Other
• Assist with improving the tax reporting and tax compliance process.
• Assist finance and other departments with tax related questions.
• Support Merger&Acquisition activity
• Support tax audits (external and internal)
• Analisys of opportunities to optimize cash tax

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• 5-6 years of relevant professional experience specializing in Corporate Tax (Merger & Acquisition experience would be valuable).
• Desirable to have experience in an MNE environment in addition to experience in an Accounting firm. Some experience in US GAAP/ IFRS would be an asset.
• Significant comfort and ability with complex Excel spreadsheets and other Microsoft applications are very important.
• Fluent English language is a must (spoken and written)
• Basic knowledge/experience of Employment Taxes and Non Residents Taxes would be an asset

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• iERP solid knowledge
• Professional qualification in taxes
• Technology Acumen