Jobbeschreibung
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren't words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You'll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.Position Purpose:
This role sits within the European Tax Centre of Excellence (COE). The main aspects of the role are:
- Take responsibility for and manage requests from tax authorities during their auditing procedures, and local advisors in respect of Corporate Income Tax returns.
- Manage tax controls for Tax Compliance Management System
- Support regular tax audit requests from tax authorities, gathering information from internal accounting systems, co-ordinating with finance, payroll and IT functions
- Co-ordinating audit requests with local Tax Senior Manager who manages the relationship with the tax authority
- Gathering information for Corporate Income Tax returns and making supporting calculations to provide to external local advisors for the final preparation of the returns
- Preparing tax accounting calculation for the final Corporate Income Tax return adjustment (true up) charge
- Monitoring tax assessments received from tax authority and reconciling to internal accounting records
- Manage governance controls in place for Tax Compliance Management System
- Participate in internal projects to ensure direct tax compliance
- Support COE strategy for use of third party resource effectively, ensuring that all work is correctly engaged and approved.
- Support strategy of standardization and automation, continuous improvement and risk management, and leveraging developments in tax technology.
- Provide support to other markets, as required.
- Completion of all other reporting requirements as necessary.
Knowledge, Skills and Competencies:
Education/Experience
- Qualified Accountant and / or Chartered Tax Adviser.
- Demonstrable experience of accounting in at least one European jurisdiction
- Understanding of accounting provisions, accounting principles, statutory audit, controls procedures and disclosure requirements of financial statements in at least one jurisdiction in Europe.
- Experience of taxes
- Fluency in English and German, a significant advantage
- Successfully manage multiple projects and competing deadlines
- Drive process improvement and balance time investment in continuous improvement opportunities with short term demands
- Work with a range of technically and culturally diverse people.
- Effectively communicate to a diverse audience, at multiple levels within the company.
- Autonomous working.
- Establish formal relationships with in-market Accounting teams and Finance Directors to ensure tax reporting in accordance with statutory regulations.
- Manage processes with a high degree of autonomy and influence people within the company without formal authority.
- Demonstrates a team oriented approach.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication to facilitate relationships with peers and senior management.
- Work with advanced, continuously developing technology solutions
- Assess and resolve problems.
- Exceptional analytical skills.
Developmental Opportunities:
- Gain an understanding of the business needs of an international pharmaceutical company from a tax perspective
- Gain tax compliance and audit experience for a complex multinational company
- Work within a professional and high performing team.
- Develop the ability to impact and influence within the company to deliver superior business results.
- Gain knowledge of transfer pricing issues in the Pharmaceutical industry.
- Add value by educating the organization and key players on the value effective tax management brings to the company.
- Be involved in tax technology developments and be involved in technology projects.
- Gain international and country specific tax expertise.
- Gain experience of working within a European team and in a shared services environment.
- Gain Continuous Improvement training and project experience