Tax Analyst

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Job Title: Tax Analyst

Contract: permanent

Location: Budapest

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new insights, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

About the role

The purpose of this role is to ensure that the markets’ tax processes (including VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental taxes and other supplementary returns) are undertaken accurately, efficiently (utilising automation) and on time and the surrounding internal control procedures, legislative requirements are closely adhered to.

The role will support the successful implementation and ongoing operation of the Global Tax processes, controls and automation tools under the new Tax Operating model.

Scope of role covers preparing VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental tax and connected returns. This requires interaction with the Tax Senior, a number of functions including both markets and central functions with a special focus on financial controlling teams and Source to Pay and Sell to Cash teams.

About you

What you will be responsible for:

• Preparing VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental taxes and connected supplementary returns in accordance with global standard process and controls, utilising automation tools where applicable
• Working closely with tax seniors to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes
• Supporting routine VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental taxes and other tax related audit enquiries and projects for your markets under the supervisory of the Tax Lead (Team leader).
• Working closely with Tax Senior to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes
• Preparing 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 your 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, supervising the implanted KPI-s, investigating root-cause or errors and working with end-to-end processes to improve KPIs
• Ensure 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 and supporting direct tax leaders, business partners, SME-s in non-routine questions, projects, and during tax audits in their competency.

What you'll bring

• Qualified graduate economist with at least 1 year post qualification finance experience (internship counts as well)
• Experience at an operational level in tax, controls and risk management is an advantage
• Experience in working with SAP is an advantage
• Strong analytical and questioning skills
• Good numerical skills and confident excel usage
• Able to work with tight deadlines
• Attention to details and overview of the business: able to operate at the detailed level when necessary but always focuses on the big picture.
• Self-motivated and well organised approach to work

Working with Us

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.

We recognise and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package including:

Our purpose is crafting iconic drinks chosen for life’s moments. And it’s our people, with their different experiences, perspectives and talents, who make that possible.

We value diversity in its broadest sense and want everyone to feel they can belong, contribute and strive for their personal best. You’ll work alongside people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives - challenging, supporting and learning from one another as one outstanding team.

Together, we’re constantly learning and improving, combining the strength of our people, capabilities and iconic brands to raise the bar, grow and win. Wherever you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute, make an impact and play your part in making life’s moments mean a little more.

Ready to bring your best? This could be your opportunity.

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