Tax Subject Matter Expert

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 ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the role

The purpose of this role is to ensure that the markets’ 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 strictly 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 reviewing or preparing VAT, customs & excise duty environmental tax, and connected returns and repots.  This requires interaction with the 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 oversee operational management and control to ensure accuracy and compliance during the preparation of the tax returns.

About you

What you will be responsible for:

1. Reviewing or Preparing complex VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental tax and connected supplementary returns in accordance with global standard process and controls, utilising automation tools where applicable;

2. Compiling and ensuring accuracy and timely filing (including sign off and payment process) of VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental tax and other related reporting;

3. Working closely with tax analysts to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes

4. Regularly informing 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;

5. Working closely with Tax Analysts/Financial Accountants to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes;

6. Reviewing / Preparing balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring these are done on time and in an internal and external control compliant way;

7. Actively managing tax document retention for your markets;

8. Contributing to the continuous improvement - through establishing a LEAN approach to drive effectiveness and efficiency - of the tax compliance processes;

9. 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;

10. Ensuring 100% CARM accuracy on tax related CARM controls;

11. Ensuring that Tax Calendar is monitored and filled-in in a timely and quality manner;

12. 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 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 communication skills able to build strong relationships with operational staff and partners; - 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/university degree in finance/accounting. 

- Strong analytical and questioning skills;

- Excellent business English;

- 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 organized 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. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application