Tax Executive recruitment
On behalf of our client, a prestigious multinational company leader in its market, we are looking for a Tax Executive:
Tax Executive, reporting to Tax Manager, has to:
- Manage Tax Compliance for all Italian legal entities, meeting deadlines stated by law and with no major tax risks.
- Manage all tax audits, excluding the General Tax Audit, with no tax penalties or minimizing them.
- Provide Procurement and Finance Departments (Accounting, Reporting, Treasury and Operations) with tax advice and support, covering also tax implication of accounting treatment of Profit Loss and Balance Sheet items.
- Monitor status of tax litigations and manage relationship with tax advisors
Principal Accountabilities
1. Tax Compliance
• To manage – with minimal Supervision – following tax returns:
o Income Taxes (yearly)
o VAT (yearly)
o Withholding Tax (yearly)
o ICI (yearly)
o Intrastat (24 / year)
o Excise (24 / year)
o Green Dot Fee - so called Conai (24 / year)
• To manage – with minimal Supervision – following tax payments or declarations:
o Income Taxes (3 / year)
o VAT (13 / year)
o Withholding Tax (12 / year)
o ICI (2 / year)
o Excise (24 / year)
o Green Dot Fee – so called Conai (24 / year)
• Above tax compliance has to be managed meeting tax deadlines and with no major issues or payment of relevant tax penalties.
• The Tax Executive has to manage and organize the tax advisor support on the Tax compliance
handling.
2. Tax Audits
• To manage all requests for information and / or documents coming from any Italian Tax Bodies, such as Tax Office, AAMS, Local Authorities (for ICI), Customs (for Intrastat), etc.
• The tax executive has to answer in a timely manner with no major issues.
• To reduce at minimum level tax penalties to be paid by Italian legal entities as a result of the audit.
3. To provide Procurement Finance Depts. with tax advice support
• To provide Procurement Accounting, Reporting, Treasury and Operations with tax advice and support on deductible costs and taxable income, tax depreciation of assets, tax payments and accruals, VAT deductibility, withholding tax on payments to advisors consultants, etc.
• To keep above Finance groups updated on tax law changes and tax opportunities.
• The Tax Executive has to be the single point of contact - within the Tax group – for the above
department, with regard to all taxes under Tax responsibility: corporate income taxes, VAT,
withholding taxes, ICI, Intrastat, etc.
• To ensure internal procedures of Finance (Accounting) comply with tax law requirements without increasing complexity.
4. To monitor Tax Litigations
• To follow up next steps of pending tax litigations together with the tax advisor.
• To support the tax advisor in gathering information and documents to sustain the tax litigation against the Tax Office.
5. Analysis of Actual Tax Charge
• To analyse differences between tax forecast booked in the Statutory Balance Sheet and the actual tax charge coming from the Income Tax return.
• To share the analysis with the Tax Manager and Tax Analyst for potential next steps or actions.
Knowledge, Skills Experience
The job requires:
• a university degree in business administration
• 3 years experience at least in a tax compliance role in a Multination Company
• good level of English
In detail the role holder should have
1) Wide experience in administrative and tax processes having an internal control approach.
2) Strong knowledge of Italian tax requirements.
Work place: Rome
For apply please send your english resume with authorization to use of your personal data according to Legislative Decree N° 196/03 to leonardo.mercuri@adecco.it quoting in the object Ref. TE/015