VAT Consultant recruitment

Senior VAT Consultants develop and engage in delivery of innovative client solutions; drawing on their appropriate skills in VAT, business processes, and business operations. Their knowledge of both indirect taxes and business processes enables us to offer and deliver our clients practical solutions for the demands of determining, calculating, and recording complex, high-volume, cross-border tax transactions. Senior VAT Consultants successfully manage multiple customers and develop client business cases in a manner that meets and delivers our customer's requirements. They actively identify and pursue transaction and transaction tax process issues for customer prospects, participate in complex proposal development during the sales cycle, and are actively engaged in delivering our end to end solutions.
Our client is looking for a Senior VAT Consultant with five or more years of experience in indirect tax consulting, business process consulting, and solution implementation.

Responsibilities:

*Serve as a primary interface with client VAT and IT professionals
*Lead meetings/presentations/workshops with client VAT and tax technology professionals.
*Explain VAT issues/problems and solutions to non-VAT technical staff
*Assess and advise client's indirect tax situation using the Indirect Tax Determination and Compliance solution.
*Determine tax process re-engineering alternatives to assist clients in meeting business objectives.
*Carry out analysis, build and test of VAT Determination Compliance projects
*Execute client engagements in a manner that ensures that commitments are met and potential problems anticipated.
*Engagement with other key teams within the business as appropriate to deliver end to end Indirect Tax solutions.

Qualifications:

*5 years domain expertise in European VAT consulting. Indirect tax experience outside Europe, especially APAC or LATAM, is a strong plus
*3 years VAT consulting experience.
*Comprehensive experience with an ERP (ORCL, SAP, PSFT) or other financial system.
*Experience working with clients to determine business and tax requirements, particularly with enterprise financial solutions.
*Experience managing consulting projects, including detailed understanding of general business and management practices.
*Strong interpersonal communication and training skills/experience.
*Experience of working in the EU and global markets essential.
*Must be creative, innovative, entrepreneurial, and flexible, with the ability to work in a matrix environment.