Tax Analyst

About the Role The purpose of this role is to ensure that the markets’ tax processes (including VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental taxes and other supplementary returns) are undertaken accurately, efficiently (utilising automation) and on time and the surrounding internal control procedures, legislative requirements are closely adhered to. The role will support the successful implementation and ongoing operation of the Global Tax processes, controls and automation tools under the new Tax Operating model. Scope of role covers preparing VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental tax and connected returns. This requires interaction with the Tax Senior, a number of functions including both markets and central functions with a special focus on financial controlling teams and Source to Pay and Sell to Cash teams. What You'll Do

• Preparing VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental taxes and connected supplementary returns in accordance with global standard process and controls, utilising automation tools where applicable
• Working closely with tax seniors to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes
• Supporting routine VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental taxes and other tax related audit enquiries and projects for your markets under the supervisory of the Tax Lead (Team leader).
• Working closely with Tax Senior to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes
• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring these are done on time and in an internal and external control compliant way.
• Actively handling tax document retention for your markets.
• Supplying to the continuous improvement- through establishing a LEAN approach to drive effectiveness and efficiency- of the tax compliance processes
• Embedding and operating the new controls and KPI reports, supervising the implanted KPI-s, investigating root-cause or errors and working with end-to-end processes to improve KPIs
• Ensure Tax Calendar is supervised and filled-in in a timely and quality manner
• Promptly responding to market queries in respect of markets in their responsibility and supporting direct tax leaders, business partners, SME-s in non-routine questions, projects, and during tax audits in their competency. What We're Looking For
• Qualified graduate economist with at least 1 year post qualification finance