Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
The Senior Manager Digital Compliance Solutions mission is support the correct and complete implementation and manage the maintenance of the adidas e-reporting, e-invoicing and others reports mandates.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support timely new implementations of e-reporting and e-invoicing mandates
- Accountable of monitoring changes in tax laws and regulations across jurisdictions
- Ensure international tax compliance related to e-reporting requirements (including e-invoicing) across different jurisdictions
- Guarantee proactive maintenance, data readiness and accuracy
- Responsible to analyze tax data collected through e-invoicing and e-reporting systems and provide insights on the data collected
- Accountable to ensure data accuracy and reconcile with the source systems
- Responsible to investigate, identify and raise issues and resolve discrepancies found on the reconciliation process
- Accountable to promote and ensure the implementation of automation projects, to enable the implementation of efficient processes
- Manage and define process improvements, and establish new working processes within systems area to ensure efficiency and excellence
- Ensure a constant and open communication with the teams involved in the different parts of the process to support the fast issue solving mindset
- Responsible for creating regular compliance reports for management and leadership review
Key Relationships:
- Corporate tax
- Local markets
- GBS teams
- Third party service providers
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Extensive knowledge in SAP FI from a user perspective is mandatory
- Minimum of 5 years of experience on implementing and delivering projects related to digitalization of tax reporting such as e-reporting and e-invoicing mandates
- Consolidated knowledge of accounting, tax and SAP
- Profficiency in MS-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Advanced knowledge in MS Excel
- Experience in shared service center environment is a plus
- Strong customer focus and stakeholder management skills to interact with business partners
- Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a business setting
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a multi-team environment to achieve consensous decisions, always having adidas consistent growth in mind
- Critical thinking mindset
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Quick problem-solving skills
- Ability to work together with other finance and tech teams, ensuring a strong collaboration with other finance and tech teams.
- Must be adaptable, flexible, and able to deal with ambiguity in an ever-changing environment while maintaining a positive attitude and working collaboratively within the team
- Must be deadline driven, results-oriented, highly responsible and accountable
- Must be proactive, have strong initiative and be self-motivated Ability to pay close attention to detail, a high degree of accuracy and excellent organizational skills.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business Administration, Tax, Accounting, IT or other related areas
- At least 8-10 years of relevant work experience in finance SAP FI projects with tax and IT functions
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