Tax Specialist

Where you fit in
The role is designed for supporting and delivering activities carried out by the Manage Direct Tax team supporting Europe region. It is a Tax Specialist Role, responsible primarily for supporting Tax reporting and filing for various legal entities in Netherlands and Germany. It provides a very good exposure on data used in direct tax compliance and Group reporting along with very good exposure towards stakeholder management.

What You Will Be Doing

• To play a key role in the following areas in Manage Direct tax-EU region
• Ensuring timely submission of quarterly, and annual tax provisions and submission of tax returns.
• Supporting the team in smooth migration of the activities for Manage Direct Tax for EU countries.
• Ensure all the timelines are met and quality is maintained.
• Ensuring timely preparation and filing of statutory accounts
• Co-ordination/ support for Tax assessments
• Co-ordination/ support for resolving all audit queries
• Ensuring compliance with RASCI
• Working closely with other teams like tax, legal and various controllers' team
• Executes provision of direct taxation on quarterly / annual basis, tax true ups and deferred tax provisions, executes preparation of tax computations and tax returns and ensures timely filing with revenue and statutory authorities.
• Ensures strong coordination across other business functions and FO operations
• Manages workloads, multiple demands, and competing priorities to ensure deadlines are met while maintaining a high quality and integrity of data.
• Proactively manages relationships with all stakeholders
• Continuous focus on improvement opportunities (ESSA) in process and content and identifies and actions opportunities to reduce complexity, promote best practice and provide focus on financial issues.
• Keeps abreast of Business developments and Business performance drivers.
• Countries covered: Netherlands and Germany

What We Need From You

• Chartered Accountants (CA) with at least 2 years of post-qualification experience in Direct tax process is preferable.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
• The candidate requires strong customer focus and delivery skills.
• Knowledge and experience in handling Corporate taxation preferable
• Strong financial reporting experience.
• Knowledge on the Global Standard process in Shell preferable
• Demonstrate Enterprise First mindset with related values and behaviours.
• Knowledge of various ERP systems used in the Shell Group. Excellent MS Office skills.

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