Requirements: English
Company: Eurofins
Region: Milan , Lombardy
Eurofins NSC Italia is seeking a highly motivated Country Tax Manager to join its team in Milan North-East (Vimodrone Site, Metro Verde: Cascina Burrona).
JOB OVERVIEW
In all countries where the Eurofins Group has significant presence, it has been elected to pool a specific set of country level support services into a National Service Centre (NSC), with a view to being more efficient and to driving the adequate compliance and control levels. In this setting, the increased complexity of tax regulations and reporting requirements has made the management of direct and indirect tax affairs becoming a key-priority matter.
The primary purpose of this position is to ensure that all relevant tax compliance and reporting tasks are timely dealt with, while at the same time performing tax management and optimization advisory tasks both at local and at international level thus ultimately being able to efficiently support and enhance the business.
The Tax Manager reports to the National Finance Director and in dotted line to the Group Head of Taxes.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Tax Compliance: ensure that local mandatory tax filings of any kind are timely and accurately complied with (as regards, corporate income taxes, VAT or other indirect taxes, withholding taxes, or any other applicable local taxes), including regular follow-up and update of the tax unity situation.
- Specific Reporting duties: timely and accurately dealing with any mandatory reporting obligation including but not limited to: Country-by-Country Report and related local notifications, DAC-6 notifications, Pillar II-related returns/forms/notifications (ex.: for the purposes of Global Minimum Tax or US CAMT), as the case may be.
- Tax Accounting: taking ownership of the computation of local tax accruals and deferred tax asset and liabilities positions, including the oversight and reporting of tax accounting data to Group (via FL06 and FLGL forms) to reflect accurate ETR evolution. This includes analysing tax accounting processes, extracting data and generating tax reports.
- Tax Risk Management: establish a comprehensive control framework to document report and mitigate tax risks, based on Group underlying instructions (KGD), including the active monitoring of new legislation to both anticipate areas of exposure or companys efficient and timely response.
- General Advisory and Tax Strategies: providing general tax advisory support to operations or Group, as required, including proactive proposal of optimization ideas in any field including, but not limited to: R&D tax credits corporate reorganizations, corporate and VAT tax unity (re)shaping, M&A support, financing structures and monitoring of interest deductibility limitation, application of international tax treaties, use of special vehicles, request for tax rulings, etc.
- Transfer Pricing: guarantee the yearly update of domestic transfer pricing documentation of any required kind (e.g.: Local Files) with a view to aligning to domestic legislation and Group Master Policy, thus avoiding non-compliance applicable fines.
- Global Minimum Tax / US CAMT: being familiar with Pillar II implications, in particular the Global Minimum Tax calculation or the US CAMT calculation.
- Tax audits & claims: oversee specific support in case of request for information coming from the authorities, tax audits and resulting administrative claims or even cases ending-up in court.
- Participation to Working Groups: active participation to working groups in several tax fields, organized centrally for all the members of the international tax community.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Master Degree in Law or in Economics.
- Special Master Degree in Tax law is a plus.
Professional experience:
- 5 to 7 years of relevant experience in the tax department of a Big-4 or comparable (law) firm, and/or in the industry sector with a strong focus on corporate tax related matters.
- Exposure to transfer pricing is a plus.
- Relevant experience in EU Global Minimum Tax or US CAMT is also a plus.
Personal skills:
- Rigorous eye for details; accurate, diligent and highly reliable.
- High level of energy, drive and passion to succeed.
- Structured, straight to the point, with developed organisational skills, combined with high degree of autonomy.
- Strong and confident personality able to challenge status quo.
- Pragmatic, proactive, flexible and adaptable.