VAT Senior Associate

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Lisboa
Hybrid
Senior level
eCommerce • Fashion • Retail
The Role
As a VAT Senior Associate, you will support the VAT team with procedures, analyze business lines, provide VAT advisory support, and mentor junior members. You'll collaborate across teams to ensure compliance and optimize VAT processes.
Summary Generated by Built In
Farfetch is a leading global marketplace for the luxury fashion industry. The Farfetch Marketplace connects customers in over 190 countries and territories with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,400 of the world’s best brands, boutiques, and department stores, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a global marketplace.

FINANCE
We're a diverse team who partners and supports the business to enable delivery against our strategic and financial goals. All of our functions have an instrumental role within Farfetch to drive forward a financially sustainable business, ensuring we set the guardrails for financial control and enable financial performance.

LISBON 
Our Lisbon office provides a dynamic workspace, surrounded by the city's top cafés, restaurants, and stunning riverfront views. It seamlessly blends innovation with the capital's cosmopolitan and creative energy.

ROLE
A great opportunity to be part of the FARFETCH family and get a new view on Indirect Tax affairs and its impact in a Group with worldwide presence.
Reporting to the Senior VAT Manager, you will help lead the more junior members and collaborate with the wider team in supporting the overall Farfetch Group on all VAT matters. 
This is a unique opportunity to join a multidisciplinary VAT team working from an international business perspective. You will experience first-hand the impact that VAT has for a Group with worldwide presence and help tailor the path to What has never been done before.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Actively support the wider team in the preparation and design of procedures for implementation of new business lines and realities that business decides to take on. This will imply contact with multiple teams, ranging from Tech to Product, Commercial and Finance;
  • Analyze new business lines, transactions, projects and procedures within FARFETCH to provide VAT advisory support. You will help lead the team in identifying opportunities, designing solutions and / or improvement proposals;
  • Actively support the more junior members of the team on projects, other business deliverables and / or day-to-day advisory requests received from the wider FARFETCH Group regarding VAT issues and questions;
  • Review and monitor workflows, ensuring the more junior members keep tax related documentation updated and support them with the resolution of day-to-day advisory issues;
  • Collaborate with the wider Indirect Tax team (including our internal Compliance & Reporting team) in any Indirect Tax workstreams. You will be the point of contact on VAT advisory matters for the wider team.

WHO YOUR ARE

  • Indirect tax consultant with minimum of 5 years of experience;
  • Fluent in English (written and spoken);
  • Experience in EU VAT;
  • Previous experience in e-commerce and / or fashion industry is an advantage;
  • Dynamic and proactive person, with a high sense of responsibility and high autonomy;
  • Excellent team player, with ability to adapt and interact with different departments (including Tech and other teams outside of the Finance area). Good communication skills are crucial;
  • Results driven mind-set and problem-solving skills required, as we are a fast pace company, growing and changing on a daily basis.

REWARDS & BENEFITS

  • Health insurance for the whole family, flexible working environment and well-being support and tools
  • Extra days off, sabbatical program and days for you to give back for the community
  • Training opportunities and free access to Udemy
  • Flexible benefits program

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT

  • Farfetch is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. 
  • We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. 

SCAM DISCLAIMER

  • It has come to our attention that there may be fraudulent activities involving individuals or organizations falsely claiming to represent Farfetch in order to attract candidates to a SCAM. Please be aware that Farfetch does not conduct recruitment processes through messaging apps or any unofficial communication channels, other than our official careers website. Additionally, Farfetch will never ask candidates for any form of payment during the recruitment process.

Reporting to the Indirect Tax Senior Manager, you will work together with the wider team in supporting the overall Farfetch Group on all Indirect Tax matters on an international level. This is indeed a great opportunity to work in-house and experience first-hand what it is like to work with Indirect Tax from a business perspective and without any country boundaries, as you will be working with multiple locations, including US Sales Tax and Canadian GST (Goods and Service Tax). 

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The Company
HQ: London
5,294 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

FARFETCH is the leading global platform for the luxury fashion industry. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers. Founded in 2007 by José Neves for the love of fashion, and launched in 2008, FARFETCH began as an e-commerce marketplace for luxury boutiques around the world. Today the FARFETCH Marketplace connects customers in over 190 countries and territories with items from more than 50 countries and over 1,300 of the world’s best brands, boutiques and department stores, delivering a truly unique shopping experience and access to the most extensive selection of luxury on a single platform.

FARFETCH’s additional businesses include Browns and Stadium Goods, which offer luxury products to consumers, and New Guards Group, a platform for the development of global fashion brands. FARFETCH offers its broad range of consumer-facing channels and enterprise level solutions to the luxury industry under its Luxury New Retail initiative. The Luxury New Retail initiative also encompasses FARFETCH Platform Solutions, which services enterprise clients with e-commerce and technology capabilities, and innovations such as Store of the Future, its connected retail solution.

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