Senior Executive – Tax Operations

Job description

UniOps Tax Data Centre of Excellence team in Unilever is responsible for collection, analysis of tax and finance data and performing / supporting tax compliance, tax reporting and tax audit.  The areas related to direct tax, indirect tax, withholding tax and transfer pricing. The team is also responsible for monitoring the tax control framework and maintaining a Global Process Model for tax operations.  The team is responsible for co-development of tax related technology along with IT team

Main purpose of job:

The Global Tax function has launched the Future of Tax (FOT) transformation project. As part of the Future of Tax project, compliance work related to direct tax, indirect tax, withholding tax and transfer pricing will be done centrally by the Commercial Experience Team within UniOps, under a new target Operating Model (TOM).  The new TOM envisages that the tax process will be split and be performed across 4 team - Global Tax team, Country Tax Team, UniOps and 3rd party consultant (Big 4s).

UniOps vision is to build an externally benchmarked, world class Tax Data COE which delivers End to End high-quality, accurate financial information for effective decision making and meeting regulatory requirements.

Guiding Principles for project success

·  Drive value by freeing up space within Tax (through effective partnering) to focus on strategy.
·  Global, standardized, simplified and efficient tax process model.
·  Flexible, agile and Future Fit sustainable operations
·  Ownership mindset with passion for high performance

Key Requirements of the Role

·  Computation of VAT and WHT and preparation of draft returns f
·  Rule based calculations related to CIT tax provision, advance tax and quarterly group reporting
·  Collecting / querying / consolidating information from accounting / ERP systems (SAP)
·  Focus on hygiene of master data and transactional data
·  Reconciliation and analysis of data
·  Understanding and posting of journal entries related to tax
·  Check sample high value documents checks on tax data being extracted.
·  Ensure tax related payments happen to government / tax authorities as per the timelines in respective countries.
·  Ensure tax related controls and compliance are met as per the Unilever control framework.
·  .Provide documentation / data support/analysis on the audit queries raised by tax authorities.
·  Archiving of documents of all the tax related activities from data extraction till the point of filing the return, in company dedicated folders as per ITGC & audit requirements.
·  Ensure that all agreed KPIs in the tax process are met
·  Deploy tools and technology to drive process efficiencies

Other Skills:

Technical Skills

·  Accounting Knowledge (Record to Report)
·  Overview of Direct/Indirect Tax/WHT/TP
·  End user knowledge of SAP (FI Module)
·  Awareness of RPA, Power BI, Tableau and Workflow management tools would be an added advantage.
·  Successful transition of Record to Report or other finance activities to a Global Hub is desirable.

Soft skills:

·  Good in verbal and written communications.
·  Knowledge of English language and  Japanese/Korean language
·  Should have a positive attitude and should be able to proactively get things done.
·  Strong problem solving, and analytical skills.
·  Good interpersonal Skills - Must have the ability to effectively communicate with country stake holders
·  Must be a willing to learn new areas of work
·  Good team player

Educational Qualification and Experience

·  Qualified Accountant with 1-3 years of experience
·  Work experience in Accounting(R2R) and/or Direct Tax/Indirect Tax

Key interfaces

Global Tax Team

Country Tax Team

Country Finance Team

Outsourced Service Provide (Big 4))

Central R2R/P2P/O2C teams

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