Tax Audit COE Manager
GE HealthCare
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇭🇺 Hungary
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Oracle
About the role
- Work closely with Tax leaders to design and implement best in class, harmonized processes, including the necessary systems and organization to ensure timely and sustainable tax audit request delivery.
- Establish process solutions to ensure tax audit data requests are met.
- Responsible for developing and directing the improvement, alignment, simplification and standardization of all supporting processes, and documenting as SOP’s.
- Manage relationships with Tax, Controllership, Accounting CoE’s and Business teams to drive efficient & effective tax audit delivery.
- Provide Controllership and Tax leadership updates.
- Leverage IT and lead design and implementation of automations to maximize efficiencies and reduce the cost of the data gathering process.
- Lead largely through strong influencing and change management skills.
- Look for the best solutions by seeking, sharing, and partnering with others in order to identify best practices globally (or externally) for simplification, and adopt in the International region.
- Ensure readiness for tax audits and establish the right archiving mechanism.
- Monitor archiving mechanism for upstream processes owned by Accounting CoE’s.
- Work closely with Senior Functional Leaders to define a clear RACI matrix and build standard work in their respective areas (e.g. payroll to C&B rec, customs tie-outs etc).
- Manage the employee responsible for tax audit data gathering, in partnership with business teams and Accounting CoE’s.
- Ensure that all obligations are submitted by the due dates.
- Coordinate tax audits data requests in line with best practice: ensuring that each stakeholder knows their actions and deadlines, maintaining a tracker of open items, sending reminders as required, organizing regular update calls.
- Ensure that financial data, accounting analysis, reconciliation to stats and other documents to be provided to the tax authorities, have been properly reviewed & validated at an appropriate level.
Requirements
- CA, CPA or equivalent certification (or a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in accounting/finance) combined with a strong background in accounting.
- Proven experience in handling Statutory and Tax filings.
- Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in IFRS and USGAAP.
- Project Management skills.
- Demonstrated experience in change management or transformation.
- A moderate level of tax knowledge.
- Detail-oriented, and able to prioritize multiple projects, tasks, and strict deadlines.
- Languages: Written and verbal fluency in English.
- Leadership or Manager experience.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team; strong interpersonal skills; ability to build good partnership with all stakeholders in the processes.
- Excellent communication skills: experience working across multiple levels and functions; ability to develop professional relationships with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
- Integrity: Accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions, and when dealing with others.
- Solid systems skills: strong Excel skills in data compilation and aggregation (i.e., pivot tables, lookup functions, macros, etc).
- Experience with financial systems/applications (i.e. Oracle, SAP etc) is a plus.
Benefits
- Relocation Assistance Provided: No
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
accountingtax filingsIFRSUSGAAPproject managementchange managementdata analysisfinancial reconciliationdata validationautomation
Soft skills
detail-orientedprioritizationleadershipinterpersonal skillscommunicationintegrityinfluencingchange managementteamworkstakeholder management
Certifications
CACPABachelor's degree in accountingMaster's degree in accountingequivalent certification