Senior VAT Expert with Italian (all genders)

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This role may be done up to 80% remotely.

Your role: 

In your role you will be responsible for the indirect tax compliance and advisory activities in the countries across the European Union with the focus on our Italian VAT registrations. As an VAT Senior Expert, you will not only oversee the complete VAT/ITX reporting obligations for our Italian VAT registrations and establishments, but you will be the single point of contact for all VAT/ITX related questions also. You will manage / coordinate the correspondence with local tax authorities, local tax consultancies and you will be the main contact partner in case of tax audits. You support other streams of the organization by advising on all VAT/ITX related matters, identifying systems changes needed to remain VAT compliant, providing trainings and leading or supporting project teams.

Your experience and knowhow will enable the SSC to provide a high professional END2END service for VAT with a minimum of local support and considering the SSC standard approach.

With the support of our VAT Process Management Department, you secure our global standards within the SAP Systems. This applies amongst other things for the tax code determination in SD, OSD and other tax engines, for the validation of the Tax Codes procedures and the use and implementation of the SAP standard considering the country specific requirements.

Who you are:

• academic degree in Business Administration or related fields and advance training in taxation like tax advisor qualification
• At least 5-7 years of experience in the field of finance with focus indirect taxation in an international environment- either in industry or with other service providers 
• profound knowledge of tax compliance, as well as Intrastat & ECS List reporting
• VAT accounting experience (within standalone entities and VAT groups)
• profound knowledge/experience with regards to the VAT legislation and VAT reporting obligations in Italy
• ability/qualification to provide an VAT E2E service for Italian VAT registrations
• experience regarding the communication with tax authorities and in coordination / leading tax audits
• ERP (SAP R3 and S/4 HANA) experience in reviewing individual transactions and reports
• experience with ERP (SAP) Tax determination processes and / or with other tax engines
• ERP deployment and transformation related project experience
• advanced Excel-skills

• proficiency in English and Italian is a given - any other European languages a plus

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