Work Location
Experience level
Work Location:
Kraków
Experience level:
Early Careers
Shell in Krakow
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Your responsibilities
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.

Our requirements
- 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)
Benefits
- remote work opportunities
- flexible working time
- corporate products and services at discounted prices
- christmas gifts
- private medical care
- life insurance
- charity initiatives
- employee referral programme
- parking space for employees
- electric car charger
- leisure zone
- fruits
- integrations events
- sharing the costs of sports activities
- sharing the costs of foreign language classes
- sharing the costs of tickets to the movies, theater
Recruitment stages
1. Find a perfect career opportunity and apply
2. Be invited to the process via call with recruiter
3. Nail your job interview (assessment center)
4. Get an offer and start your adventure with Shell