Direct Tax Specialist

The Role

The Tax Specialist role is designed for supporting and delivering activities carried out by the Manage Direct Tax team. The role involves individual contributor responsibilities, primarily as a preparer of a limited number of high complex/material legal entities in Latin America.

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;
• Prepare Monthly (or ad hoc) Tax Returns;
• Support the Annual Tax Return preparation;
• Ensure timely submission of internal reports for direct tax reconciliation to the controllers;
• Responsible for various tax accounts reconciliation;
• Provide monthly submission of direct tax key performance indicators;
• Support quarterly and annual audit (internal and external);
• Develop templates and collate information to respond inquiries from tax authorities and internal stakeholders;
• Keep track, evidences and support for SOX controls effectiveness;
• Support and work on additional/new scope migrations of MDT activities.

Skills & Requirements:

• 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
• Experience of using a major ERP system such as SAP, SUN, JDE, Oracle, PeopleSoft will be beneficial
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, specially Excel tool
• Good communication skills
• Comfortable working under time pressure situations
• Ability to work with different times zones
• Fluent English

Disclaimer

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