Tax Senior

Job Title: Tax Senior

Location: Budapest

Contract Term: permanent

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 ambitious 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’ indirect tax processes (including VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental tax 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 Indirect Tax processes, controls and automation tools under the new Tax Operating model.

Job Dimensions

Scope of role covers reviewing or preparing VAT, customs & excise duty environmental tax, and connected returns and repots.  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 Order to Cash. The role will have a direct conversation with Tax business partners and Regional SME -s relevant for their area to provide support in audits, project and other continuous improvement related topics. The role is also responsible to supervise operational management and control to ensure accuracy and compliance during the preparation of the indirect tax returns.

Responsibilities

- Reviewing or Preparing sophisticated 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;

- Working closely with Indirect tax analysts to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes

- Regularly advising Team Leader on daily issues.

- 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/Financial Accountants to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes;

- Reviewing / 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 indirect tax compliance processes ;

- Embedding and operating the new controls and KPI reports, supervising the implemented KPI-s, investigating root-cause or errors and working with end-to-end processes to improve KPIs;

- Ensuring that 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 under the supervisory of the Indirect Tax Lead (Team leader).

What you'll bring

• Ideally minimum 2-3 years’ relevant tax experience in SSC and/or FMCG/Big 4 advisory environment;
• Previous experience at an operational level in tax, controls and risk management;
• Excellent interpersonal skills able to build positive relationships with operational staff and stakeholders;
• Experience in working with SAP is an advantage;
• Experience in the review and/or coordination of the work of others is an advantage;
• Has college/