Tax Junior Manager

Job Title: Tax Junior Manager

Location: Budapest

Contract: permanent

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 strictly adhered to.

Accountabilities

• Overseeing the preparation and review of VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental tax and connected supplementary returns in accordance with global standard process and controls, utilising automation tools where applicable;
• Compiling and ensuring accuracy and timely filing (including sign off and payment process) of VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental tax and other related reporting;
• Being responsible to flag risks and tax saving opportunities identified during the return preparation and flag unusual or new business scenarios and comment on their tax treatment;
• Working closely with Tax Analysts, Seniors and SME-s to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes;
• Overseeing balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring these are done on time and in an internal and external control compliant way;
• Actively managing tax document retention for respective markets;
• Contributing 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, monitoring the implemented KPI-s, investigating root-cause or errors and working with end-to-end processes to improve KPIs;
• Ensuring 100% CARM and 100% PCAOB accuracy on tax related CARM controls;
• Ensuring that Tax Calendar is monitored and filled-in in a timely and quality manner;

• Promptly responding to market queries in respect of markets in her/his responsibility.

• Relevant professional qualification and 7 years of experience in taxation;
• Practical experience of tax procedures including governance, controls, compliance and related accounting and documentation.
• In depth knowledge of tax legislation
• Knowledge of SAP
• Experience with the tax rules/implications of domestic and cross border Direct to Consumer/eCommerce/Retail systems/platforms and e-Invoicing an advantage
• Working knowledge of interaction between VAT and other taxes, particularly excise and customs duties
• Ability to work through others or exercise influence to deliver performance improvement.
• Good English language and communication skills
• Generates and sustains great working relationships and networks across the organisation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Flexibility for adapting to change, often at short notice, with positive attitude.
• Strong risk management skills, ability to follow-up/flag potential issues
• Commercially astute, analytically strong strategic problem solver with the ability to constructively challenge business units in relation to solid compliance.
• Courage to maintain focus and integrity in tough situations.
• Proactive and a self-starter comfortable operating independently