Tax Specialist - Cetral & Eastern Europe

* Maintain a portfolio of legal entities within an assigned region and take responsibility for ensuring the tax computations and reporting are prepared to a high standard, on a timely basis and finalised and submitted to the regional tax management / tax authorities within agreed deadlines.
* Work with external providers / regional tax team to understand the requirements at the start of each compliance cycle and provide instructions to the tax computation preparers.
* Potential visits to the region when appropriate.
* Prepare and Review the draft tax computation produced to ensure correct treatment of items and determine whether further information is required.
* Liaise with regional management to obtain additional information if required, feeding back to the tax computation preparers to enable them to provide an updated draft computation for subsequent review.
* Identify and resolve technical issues, preparing technical analysis and involving specialists as appropriate to prepare or review analysis.
* Deliver a high quality, technically accurate final draft tax computation, ready for final review
* Provide advice and support to the regional management, as requested, including for example providing assistance in the drafting of responses to tax authority correspondence and preparing tax accounting disclosures.
* Support, standardize and optimize CIT compliance processes across the EMEA region

* Bachelor's/ Master’s Degree in Finance or Tax with focus on tax or accounting
* 2 to 5  years of tax and/or accounting experience
* Fluent business English,
* Knowledge of  Polish or German or Czech or Russian is needed
* Basic understanding of local GAAP concepts
* Experience with international GAAP (IFRS) concepts is a plus
* Ability to identify and resolve technical issues, or escalate as appropriate.
* Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.
* Able to prioritize work load in order to meet deadlines and business requirements
* Excellent team work and organizational skills, including monitoring timetables
* Proficient user of tax software is a plus
* ERP systems knowledge (including SAP and Oracle) is an advantage
* Proficiency with Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)