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Position Purpose:

This role sits within the European Tax Centre of Excellence (COE). The main aspects of the role are:

• Take responsibility for and manage requests from tax authorities during their auditing procedures, and local advisors in respect of Corporate Income Tax returns.
• Manage tax controls for Tax Compliance Management System

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support regular tax audit requests from tax authorities, gathering information from internal accounting systems, co-ordinating with finance, payroll and IT functions
• Co-ordinating audit requests with local Tax Senior Manager who manages the relationship with the tax authority
• Gathering information for Corporate Income Tax returns and making supporting calculations to provide to external local advisors for the final preparation of the returns
• Preparing tax accounting calculation for the final Corporate Income Tax return adjustment (true up) charge
• Monitoring tax assessments received from tax authority and reconciling to internal accounting records
• Manage governance controls in place for Tax Compliance Management System
• Participate in internal projects to ensure direct tax compliance
• Support COE strategy for use of third party resource effectively, ensuring that all work is correctly engaged and approved.
• Support strategy of standardization and automation, continuous improvement and risk management, and leveraging developments in tax technology.
• Provide support to other markets, as required.
• Completion of all other reporting requirements as necessary.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies:

Education/Experience

• Qualified Accountant and / or Chartered Tax Adviser.
• Demonstrable experience of accounting in at least one European jurisdiction
• Understanding of accounting provisions, accounting principles, statutory audit, controls procedures and disclosure requirements of financial statements in at least one jurisdiction in Europe.
• Experience of taxes
• Fluency in English and German, a significant advantage

Functional/Technical

• Successfully manage multiple projects and competing deadlines
• Drive process improvement and balance time investment in continuous improvement opportunities with short term demands
• Work with a range of technically and culturally diverse people.
• Effectively communicate to a diverse audience, at multiple levels within the company.
• Autonomous working.
• Establish formal relationships with in-market Accounting teams and Finance Directors to ensure tax reporting in accordance with statutory regulations.
• Manage processes with a high degree of autonomy and influence people within the company without formal authority.
• Demonstrates a team oriented approach.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication to facilitate relationships with peers and senior management.
• Work with advanced, continuously developing technology solutions
• Assess and resolve problems.
• Exceptional analytical skills.

Developmental Opportunities:

• Gain an understanding of the business needs of an international pharmaceutical company from a tax perspective
• Gain tax compliance and audit experience for a complex multinational company

• Work within a professional and high performing team.
• Develop the ability to impact and influence within the company to deliver superior business results.
• Gain knowledge of transfer pricing issues in the Pharmaceutical industry.
• Add value by educating the organization and key players on the value effective tax management brings to the company.
• Be involved in tax technology developments and be involved in technology projects.
• Gain international and country specific tax expertise.
• Gain experience of working within a European team and in a shared services environment.
• Gain Continuous Improvement training and project experience

Based on your function, department or individual position, you will have the opportunity to discuss with your Manager the option to work remotely up to 50% of the time, over a two-week period, with the flexibility to choose the days that align with your collaboration needs.

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If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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