Description:
Development Value
- Gain an understanding of the business needs of an international pharmaceutical company from a VAT compliance perspective.
- Work within a professional and high performing team.
- Impact and influence within the company to deliver superior business results.
- Gain international and country specific VAT expertise.
- Gain experience of working within a European team and in a shared services environment.
Position Purpose
This role sits within the Tax COE Europe team. The 2 main aspects of the role are :
- Take responsibility for and manage VAT reporting compliance requirements for a group of markets, ensuring internal and external deadlines are met.
- Provide advice on VAT compliance related queries, coordinating with external and internal stakeholders
- Maintain awareness of local VAT legislation and act as a real internal consultant to satisfy stakeholder expectations.
Key Responsibilities
- Preparation of monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly or annual VAT returns and other indirect tax returns
- sales listings
- domestic listings
- purchase listings
- Intrastat
- SAF-T
- Review of monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly, or annual VAT returns and other indirect tax returns (sales listings, domestic listings, purchase listings, Intrastat, SAF-T)
- Preparing and requesting necessary VAT submission approvals from internal stakeholders and following up on VAT payment requests and archiving documentation after submissions are completed
- Preparation of VAT General Ledger reconciliation and follow up on issues and open items
- Reconciliation of GL sales to reported VAT sales and follow up on issues and open items
- Manage and assist with VAT compliance queries from the business
- Support preparing VAT requirements documents and other documents
- Support Tax Technology team to test and implement requirements
- Continuous monitor of VAT legislation to identify relevant changes
- Assistance in maintenance of VAT codes tables and VAT codes in accounting system
- Assistance with VAT audits and liaison with tax authorities
- Support strategy of standardisation and automation, continuous improvement and risk management
Knowledge, Skills and Competencies
Education & Experience
- Demonstrable experience of VAT compliance in at least one jurisdiction in a multi-national tax environment or equivalent.
- Experience with SAP or Oracle is advantageous.
- Excellent Excel skills and Indirect Tax return preparation technology
Skills and Competencies
- Successfully manage competing priorities.
- Work with a range of technically and culturally diverse people.
- Effectively communicate to a diverse audience, at multiple levels within the company.
- Autonomous working.
- Establish formal relationships with internal customers.
- Demonstrates a team orientated approach.
- Assess and resolve problems.
- Excellent analytical skills.