The 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. The role also involves individual contributor responsibilities, primarily as a preparer of a limited number of legal entities in assigned location/s.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver on time and accurate tax calculation and reporting of Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Direct Tax Provisions and related Advance Tax payments;
• Understand and operate tax provisioning and compliance tools;
• Understand Group Accounting and Reporting changes and enable incorporation of changes in the process as may be relevant;
• Prepare Monthly (or ad-hoc) Tax Returns;
• Support the onshore team in Annual Tax Return Preparation;
• Ensure timely submission of internal reports for direct tax reconciliation to the controllers;
• Responsible for various tax accounts reconciliation;
• Provide Quarterly submission of direct tax key performance indicators;
• Resolve complex direct tax issues, liaise with counter-parties and other departments on variances reconciliations, plausibility checks, dry-run analysis;
• Support quarterly and annual audit support (internal, external and Tax Authorities);
• Develop templates and collate information to respond inquiries from tax authorities and internal stakeholders;
• Providing strong support to Business Groups in their control of business related tax risks with accuracy and timely;
• Owning the SOX controls and responsible for their effectiveness;
• Support and work on transition additional/new scope migrations of MDT activities. 

• University degree (Law, Economy, Finance, Accounting preferable)
• Minimum of 4-5 years of experience in accounting/finance in multinational environment
• Minimum of 2-3 years of experience in Direct Tax calculation and Tax Return preparation
• Knowledge of international direct tax standards
• Experience of using a major ERP system such as SAP, SUN, JDE, Oracle, PeopleSoft will be beneficial
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, specially Excel tool
• Very good communication skills
• Comfortable working under time pressure situations
• Effective stakeholder management
• Comfortable working under time pressure
• Fluent English