Description of the position
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Your journey with us
An increasingly complex tax landscape with real-time reporting requirements, a wide variety of technological opportunities and increasing talent needs have a big impact on any company. More and more companies are looking to partner up with Deloitte to work together as a single team and become a part of their indirect tax team to reach joint goals. As part of one of our operate VAT teams, you get to experience the end-to-end tax processes working closely together with the stakeholders within the client’s business (PTP, RTR, banking,…), while being an authentic part of the client’s team. So, are you a team player and do you tick the boxes for the below responsibilities & requirements…?
To list some of key responsibilities:
1. Get to know your client’s business inside-out and play a key role in their global indirect tax compliance deliverables in the end-to-end process.
2. Oversight on the data extraction (including VAT & General ledger, trial balances, vouchers, invoices,…) periodically to start the compliance workflow, from a variety of ERP systems.
3. Highly automated data cleansing activities through our internal tools & spotting opportunities for improvements continuously.
4. Review & sign-off of pan-European indirect tax obligations, including the VAT, Intrastat and other related declarations and computations, reconciliations and payment requests
5. Year-to-date reconciliations of the VAT ledger, General ledger & trial balance, and additional reconciliations depending on client processes. The reconciliations include an Analysis of open & ageing items to ensure these are picked up within a maximum of 3 months. This includes instructions to the accounting / banking teams, requesting reclassifications of amounts or performing inter-company recharges.
6. Assist our clients with VAT and Intrastat audits and information requests on a Pan European basis
7. Responsible for preparing necessary management reporting and getting trained to spot possible Indirect Tax issues and opportunities that lead to efficiencies for our team and the client.
8. Work closely with client business stakeholders in AP, AR, banking and other teams while being part of the Deloitte team
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9. Affinity with (indirect) taxes, prior experience is a plus
10. Understanding and knowledge of ERP systems (SAP, ORACLE, other ERP's) on a high-level is a plus.
11. Excellent written and verbal communications skills at the business and technical level
12. Knowledge of Microsoft Office products — Excel is a must
13. Ability to multi-task various client responsibilities through prioritization of activities
14. Ability to integrate rapidly with existing team
15. Solid analytical aptitude and problem solving skills
16. Good personal organizational skills and commitment to customer service
17. Critical thinking and analytical skills
18. Aptitude for and eagerness to learning technology, processes and working with datasets
19. Team player
20. Out-of-the-box thinking
21. Any additional European language is an asset
22. Prior experience in an Operate setting or in the Industry is an asset