Indirect Tax SME

Job Description :

Job Title: Indirect Tax Subject Matter Expert

Contract: fixed term (1 year)

Location: Budapest

From pioneers like Arthur Guinness, John Walker and Elizabeth Cumming, to the digital disrupters already shaping our future, at Diageo, we’ve never stopped looking forward. We’re continuing to build on our heritage and, with eCommerce at the heart of everything we do, we’re creating our legacy for tomorrow. Join us and explore new ways ahead with digital sales channels, consumer insight and data. As you help us to keep shaking up the market with industry-leading solutions, you’ll transform your career too! 

About us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. With over 200 brands in 180 countries and a global network of entrepreneurial individuals, our teams blend a diverse range of experience, knowledge and skills. We connect customers and consumers to our iconic products and build innovative experiences that bring people together to celebrate life!

About the role

The purpose of this role is to ensure that the markets’ VAT processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently (utilising automation) and on time and the surrounding internal control procedures, legislative requirements are rigorously adhered to.

The role will support the implementation and ensure ongoing operation of the Global Indirect Tax processes, controls and automation tools under the new Tax Operating model for markets in scope.  The role will actively support the global tax projects and advisory topics in  VAT as well as will be the tax capability building for the respective regions/markets.

• Provides the regional tax technical knowledge required for preparing the in-scope statutory indirect tax returns;
• Supervises regional Tax Compliance teams for smooth compliance operation and issue resolution;
• Collaborates Advisors, Tax Business Partners to ensure processes and activities of the Indirect Tax Compliance Function can be excellently driven;
• Supports tax authorities collaborations where vital to deal with administrative issues, requests for information and audits;
• Supports the collation, organisation and provision of information to tax authorities where relevant to ensure timely resolution of open issues;
• Identifies and drives process efficiencies and standardization opportunities, working in strategic partnership with the Process Governance Director/FC Governance on implementations and Tax Technology teams;
• Pro-actively supports internal projects to facilitate the ongoing transformation and improvement of Diageo’s Global Tax function (including providing relevant information, answering ad hoc requests and suggesting alternative ways of working);
• Acts as a back-up for their Manager in relation to technical aspects;
• Acts as a coach, trainer of team members both from a technical and people management perspective and supports return preparation process;
• Is responsible for building a close relationship with key and senior partners within Global Tax, in Diageo markets, Global and Regional Supply Leaders, other functional teams of GDBS shared services in Budapest and Bangalore as well as Tax authorities, external and internal advisors.

Job Dimensions

Scope of role covers coordinating & supervising the preparation and review of sophisticated and material VAT, and connected returns for the Diageo markets and also supporting the capability building for the same areas. This requires interaction with the Indirect Tax Lead, Seniors and Analysts, a number of functions including both markets and central functions with a special focus on financial controlling teams, Source to Pay and Sell to Cash. The role will have a direct conversation with Tax business partners and Global SME -s relevant for their area to provide support in audits, project and other continuous improvement related topics. The role holders focus area will also be finding efficiency and standardization opportunities and execution.

About you

• Ensuring that sophisticated VAT and connected supplementary returns are prepared according to the global standard process and controls, local DTP-s, on time and utilising automation tools where applicable.
• Leading routine VAT and other indirect tax related audit enquiries and tax projects for your markets in collaboration with tax manager. Acting as back -up for the tax manager upon request.
• Ensuring compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes working closely with Global and Local SMEs.
• Provide close support of in indirect tax related advisory topics in the scope falling under own remit.
• Actively leading and coordinating indirect tax related document retention for your markets.
• Identifying and driving continuous process improvement in collaboration with the tax manager through establishing a LEAN approach to drive effectiveness and efficiency - supporting process improvements and rollout of standardised processes and automation re in scope markets.
• Supporting the new controls and important metric report implementation (Tax calendar review), supervising the implemented KPI-s, supporting investigation of the root-cause or errors and working with end-to-end processes to improve critical metrics.
• Promptly responding to market queries in respect of markets in their responsibility and supporting indirect tax leaders, tax managers, SME-s in non-routine questions, global projects, and during tax audits in their competency.
• Providing training and any other kinds of technical support to the Indirect Tax teams and to other departments. 

What you'll bring

• Ideally minimum 3-4 years’ relevant tax experience in SSC and/or FMCG/Big 4 advisory environment
• Experience at an operational level with VAT, controls and risk management
• Experience with transitions and project management
• Experience in working with Indirect tax supporting tools
• Has college/university degree in finance/accounting
• Strong process and tax technical understanding at an operational level in VAT
• Experience with Indirect tax automation/SAP is desirable
• Flexibility for adopting to change with positive demeanour
• Excellent communication skills able to build strong relationships with operational staff and partners
• Strong risk leadership skills, ability to follow-up/flag potential issues

Benefits

• Unique Family Leave opportunity
• We work without border - you will work with people from all over the world
• You will deal with extraordinary brand portfolio
• Wide variety of thematic events, after work activities organized by employee communities
• Product Allowance to purchase company products from the staff shop
• We won the Fittest Workplace Award, of course we have a Gym
• Urban legend is true, we do have a Rooftop Bar!

Flexibility

This is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time and compressed hours. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying!

Diversity statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings!

Worker Type :

Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Primary Location:

Budapest

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-11-18