Senior Tax Analyst

**Career Area**:
Finance

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**About the role**:
Support LATAM region Indirect Tax matters, such as advise on new & existing business models, guide disclosures of important tax position in Indirect Tax Returns, supervise internal & eternal indirect tax audit/inquiry responses, support systems & process improvement projects, and collaborate with wider Global Tax Teams, across the globe.

**As a Senior Tax Analyst, you can expect to**:

- Preparing and performing critical analysis on LATAM region indirect tax issue, utilizing tax technical rules to business environment.
- Monitoring indirect tax developments (including on digital front) across the LATAM region, and analyzing impact of such changes on business operations.
- Collaborating with business partners across the LATAM region to provide indirect tax advice for facilitating business needs, including greenfield expansion.
- Guiding stakeholders for disclosure of critical Indirect tax issues for statutory reporting across LATAM region, such as indirect tax returns, Transfer Pricing studies, Annual Financial statements.
- Supporting audits/litigations across the LATAM region, including supervising submissions made to the tax offices such as workpapers and calculations.
- Supporting technology implementation and upgradations, process efficiencies, from an indirect tax perspective.

**What You Have**:
**Accuracy and Attention to Detail**:Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.

Level Extensive Experience:

- Evaluates and makes contributions to best practices.
- Processes large quantities of detailed information with high levels of accuracy.
- Productively balances speed and accuracy.
- Implements a variety of cross-checking approaches and mechanisms.
- Demonstrates expertise in quality assurance tools, techniques, and standards.
- Employs techniques for motivating employees to meet or exceed accuracy goals.

Level Working Knowledge:

- Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
- Listens to feedback without defensiveness and uses it for own communication effectiveness.
- Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
- Avoids technical jargon when inappropriate.
- Looks for and considers non-verbal cues from individuals and groups.

Level Working Knowledge:

- Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
- Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
- Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
- Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
- Uses fact-finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Level Working Knowledge:

- Selects key business and technical contacts in the event of a production problem.
- Works with a specific financial or accounting system and sub-systems.
- Implements data flows between financial and accounting systems.
- Utilizes operating requirements for the financial environment.
- Coordinates major system interfaces and criticalities.

**Tax Management**:Knowledge of tax laws, organizational tax practices, obligations; ability to manage organization tax related issues.

Level Working Knowledge:

- Collects and prepares documentation for tax filing or tax defense activities.
- Interprets and explains all locally relevant tax laws.
- Documents government regulations that deal with organizational taxes.
- Follows tax accounting practices and explains the rationale behind these practices.

**Tax Operations**:Knowledge of tax practices and regulations; ability to prepare and file fe