The Junior Direct Tax Specialist role is designed for supporting and delivering activities carried out by the Manage Direct Tax team (MDT Team). It provides a very good exposure on Direct Tax Compliance and Group Reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and deliver tax calculation, payments, tax returns
• Support and work on transition additional/new scope migrations of Direct Tax Team activities.
• Support audit (internal, external and Tax Authorities);
• Develop templates and collate information to respond inquiries from tax authorities and internal stakeholders.
• Owning the SOX controls and responsible for their effectiveness.
• Prepare and Support Annual Tax Return Preparation.
• Ensure timely submission of internal reports for direct tax reconciliation to the controllers.
• Ensure correct and timely escalations of process exceptions or tolerance/variances and their resolution;
• Responsible for various tax accounts reconciliation;
• Provide Quarterly submission of direct tax key performance indicators;
• Resolve basic direct tax issues, liaise with counterparties and other departments on variances reconciliations, plausibility checks, dry-run analysis;
• Providing strong support to Business Groups in their control of business related tax risks with accuracy and timely.

• University degree (Law, Economy, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting preferable)
• Basic knowledge of international direct tax standards
• Basic Knowledge of Control Frameworks, controls in a tax environment and tax accounting under GAAP and/or IFRS (in particular IAS 12).
• Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in accounting/finance in multinational environment
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in Direct Tax calculation and Tax Return preparation
• Microsoft Office skills, specially Excel tool
• Very good communication skills
• Comfortable working under time pressure situations
• Effective stakeholder management
• Ability to work with different times zones and cultures
• Fluent English, Competency in other language (if applicable)