Tax Associate

Posted:
8/19/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Gdańsk, Województwo pomorskie, Poland ⋅ Województwo pomorskie, Poland

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Accounting

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

We welcome applications to our full-time vacancies from all citizens who have been granted protection within the territory of the Republic of Poland under the EU Temporary Protection Directive*

Do you enjoy research? Want to use your skills and tax knowledge to build some of the world's leading tax compliance software? If so, this opportunity as a Tax Associate at Thomson Reuters might be for you.

As a Tax Associate, you'll work as part of the Tax Research Team, a friendly global team that maintains a particular focus on ONESOURCE, Thomson Reuters' industry leading tax and accountancy software. Through ONESOURCE, we ensure that our customers are equipped with the intelligence, technology and expertise that they need to track and manage their global tax affairs.

The successful candidate will join the VAT team responsible for the analyzing, researching, interpreting and documenting laws and regulations, extensive researching and analyzing of product exemptions, researching and responding to client inquiries, prioritizing, assessing risk for correspondence and assessments, updating documentation. This full-time position will be based in Gdansk with hybrid working available.

About the Role
Our Tax Associates are responsible for researching, analyzing and documenting tax rules and laws applicable to ONESOURCE™ tax software. The job includes updating and testing multiple tax data systems supporting indirect taxes. In this opportunity as Tax Associate, you will:      

  • Research, analyze, interpret and document tax laws and regulations.
  • Monitor tax statutes, regulations, legislative activity, court decisions and publications to stay informed of changes in laws and regulations.
  • Correspond with global and local tax authorities.
  • Research and respond to client inquiries.
  • Provide recommendations on complex tax and legal issues.
  • Communicate complicated tax/legal issues in an understandable manner to non-tax/legal tax professionals.
  • Tests all tax content changes made in database for quality assurance.
  • Provide guidance to other departments regarding tax processes.
  • Maintenance and accuracy of all applicable tax/legal information in content database, which includes entering content changes into all systems and applications.


About You
You’re a fit for the role of Tax Associate if your background includes:

  • A degree in Law/Finance/Tax.
  • A Detail-orientated approach. We're looking for someone that enjoys analyzing data (both quantitative and qualitative) and problem solving. Here, you'll be interpreting, analyzing and organizing detailed legal material so a keen eye for detail is a must!
  • A strong interest in tax (specifically VAT) and the desire to grow your career in a tax research setting.
  • Ability to utilize online research tools and work to specific deadlines.
  • Great written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to write white papers or technical tax documents (training will be provided!).
  • Comfortable using the Microsoft Office Package (e.g. Microsoft Excel & Word) and open to learning new technologies.
  • The ability to confidently communicate in English. If you speak any other languages, please tell us more about this on your CV.


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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through: 

  • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance:  two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  • Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.


Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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We welcome applications to our full-time vacancies from all citizens who have been granted protection within the territory of the Republic of Poland under the EU Temporary Protection Directive (subject to proof of status). This is inclusive of:

  • Ukrainian citizens and their family members residing in Ukraine before 24 February 2022
  • Third country citizens and stateless persons and their family members with international or equivalent national protection in Ukraine, who had a valid residence permit in Ukraine on 24 February 2022
  • Citizens of other third countries who were permanent residents in Ukraine on 24 February 2022 in accordance with Ukrainian regulations and who cannot safely and permanently return to their country

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