About this role
Job Title: Tax Junior Manager
Location: Budapest
Contract: permanent
About the role
The purpose of this role is to ensure that the markets’ tax processes are done accurately and on time. These include value-added tax, import duties, excise levies, ecological taxes, and other supplementary returns. The role also ensures efficiency by using automation. It requires strict adherence to internal control procedures and legislative requirements.
Accountabilities
Coordinating the preparation and review of VAT, import duties, excise levies, environmental charges, and related supplementary returns. This follows global standard processes and controls and uses automation tools when applicable.
Compiling and ensuring accuracy and timely filing (including sign off and payment process) of VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental tax and other related reporting;
Being responsible to flag risks and tax saving opportunities identified during the return preparation and flag unusual or new business scenarios and comment on their tax treatment;
Working closely with Tax Analysts, Seniors and SME-s to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes;
Overseeing 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 respective 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, monitoring the implemented KPI-s, investigating root-cause or errors and working with end-to-end processes to improve KPIs;
Ensuring 100% CARM and 100% PCAOB accuracy on tax related CARM controls;
Ensuring that 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.
What you'll bring
Relevant professional qualification and 7 years of experience in taxation;
Practical experience of tax procedures including governance, controls, compliance and related accounting and documentation.
In depth knowledge of tax legislation
Knowledge of SAP
Experience with the tax rules/implications of domestic and cross border Direct to Consumer/eCommerce/Retail systems/platforms and e-Invoicing an advantage
Solid understanding of interaction between VAT and other taxes, particularly excise and customs duties
Ability to work through others or exercise influence to deliver performance improvement.
Good English language and communication skills
Generates and sustains great working relationships and networks across the organisation.
Strong stakeholder leadership skills
Flexibility for adapting to change, often at short notice, with positive attitude.
Strong risk management skills, ability to follow-up/flag potential issues
Commercially astute, analytically strong strategic problem solver with the ability to constructively challenge business units in relation to proven compliance.
Courage to maintain focus and integrity in tough situations.
Proactive and a self-starter comfortable operating independently
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Diversity statement
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You will contribute to building and championing an inclusive culture. This culture celebrates people of diverse gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, and approaches.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you!
Worker Type : Regular
Primary Location: Budapest
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date : 2026-08-28
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