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The Position
A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.
The Opportunity:
This position is responsible for the Roche Companies’ tax compliance, tax planning, and accounting for all applicable taxes. Reporting to the Tax Manager, Turkey, the successful candidate will work with businesses, and in daily activities he/she will mainly interact with local Finance colleagues, accounting shared services center, and other tax professionals in carrying out his or her responsibilities.
The ideal candidate is a team player who manages the tax team to greater performance, creates and implements tax plans, and works with the business and local Finance to identify opportunities and potential areas of risk. The Tax Specialist will ensure both, compliance and business partnership.
Essential Job Duties
- Support management of Local Tax Operations (Returns, Payments), even in cooperation with external consultants
- Implement effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process
- Provide instructions for Tax Accounting and Payments
- Support implementation of Transfer Pricing according to Group Policy
- Implement Global Tax Policies
- Interactions with local Tax Authorities and Tax Audits
- Business support
Qualifications
- 5 - 7 years’ experience in a multinational company either in a tax function or finance areas with exposure to taxes - or from an accounting and tax services advisory company
- Ability to contribute directly to fulfilling the essential duties linked to the position
- Good understanding of Local Taxes, mainly corporate taxes and VAT
- Professional qualification in Accounting, Finance or Tax expected
- Good accounting knowledge and familiarity to use of the business IT systems – Microsoft Office, SAP and Google being the main ones
- Fluent in spoken and written English
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
- Process oriented and problem solving mindset, attention to detail
- Communication skills both providing information and gathering information, ability to create network inside and outside of the finance and taxes area
- Strong ability to utilize project management and accounting best practices to organize and prioritize tasks and the tasks of other tax team members.
- Ability to work well independently as well as the ability to work well with stakeholders and communicate the benefits of tax initiatives.
- Knowledge and experience in the healthcare industry of advantage (primarily pharma or diagnostics)
Who we are
At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
What We Do
Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare – a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible.
Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management.
Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society. The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines. Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).
