Tax Analyst

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

Flexible Working Statement 

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.  

Diversity statement

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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