Primary Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with outside advisor to support global indirect tax filings, audit, planning for local jurisdictions
- Support competency teams by gathering data, assisting in planning and research, leveraging support from their GBS center scope and working closely with GBS corporate finance team
- Assist with indirect tax compliance
- Assist with global audit
- Analyze data - Ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material
- Report results - Effectively communicating and presenting complex financial data (both verbally and written)
- Build relationships with other functional and competency leads in GBS – Leverage relationships to evaluate and make recommendations on process design to integrate tax reporting with other financial functions
- Develop standardization of tax processes across countries, including documentation of consistent filing positions.
- Leverage advise from the corporate technology team to improve efficiency
- Seek advice from local tax team on a project basis
- Support Global Manager for Tax Processes and Technologies
- Support the scoping, design, testing, implementation, ongoing maintenance and continued improvement of the process, procedures and technology solutions that are implemented supporting this role and its activities.
- Support Global Manager for Global Indirect Tax Manager on the following areas:
- Manage data needed for all indirect income tax filing requirements globally while ensuring accuracy and overall efficiency
- Facilitate and review tax filings prepared by outside tax preparers by acting as the liaison between Manager and local Tax personnel.
- Monitor new tax legislation and regulations to determine impact to the company and advise on restructuring, as needed.
- Collaborate with global external advisors to support key projects and initiatives.
- Develop methods to standardize and modernize global indirect income tax processes
- Provide consultation to the global affiliates for questions related to indirect income tax
- Develop tax planning strategies to reduce indirect income taxes globally
- Assist with interactions and negotiations with tax authorities for all global tax audits
- Keep on top of latest developments of tax legislation and inform management of potential impact with solutions
- Interface with personnel from all areas of organization to obtain financial and other data