Tax Partner

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The Position

This position is responsible for the Roche Companies’ tax compliance, tax planning and accounting for all applicable taxes. Reporting directly to Group Tax in headquarter, the successful candidate will work with businesses and in daily activities he/she will mainly interact with local Finance colleagues, accounting shared services center and other tax professionals in carrying out his or her responsibilities.

The ideal candidate is a team player who manages the tax team to greater performance, creates and implements tax plans and works with the business and local Finance to identify opportunities and potential areas of risk. The Tax Specialist will ensure both, compliance and business partnership.

Essential Job Duties

• Support management of Local Tax Operations (Returns, Payments), even in cooperation with external consultants
• Implement effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process
• Provide instructions for Tax Accounting and Payments
• Support implementation of Transfer Pricing according to Group Policy
• Implement Global Tax Policies
• Interactions with local Tax Authorities and Tax Audits
• Business support

Qualifications

• At least 5 years’ experience in a multinational company either in a tax function or finance areas with exposure to taxes - or from an accounting and tax services advisory company
• Ability to contribute directly in fulfilling the essential duties linked to the position
• Good understanding of Local Taxes, mainly corporate taxes and VAT
• Professional qualification in Accounting, Finance or Tax expected
• Good accounting knowledge and familiarity to use of the business IT systems – Microsoft Office, SAP and Google being the main ones
• Fluent in spoken and written English 
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Process oriented and problem solving mindset, attention to detail
• Communication skills both providing information and gathering information, ability to create network inside and outside of the finance and taxes area
• Strong ability to utilize project management and accounting best practices to organize and prioritize tasks and the tasks of other tax team members.
• Ability to work well independently as well as the ability to work well with stakeholders and communicate the benefits of tax initiatives.
• Knowledge and experience in the healthcare industry of advantage (primarily pharma or diagnostics)

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.