Operational Tax Senior Specialist

What you will do:

The Senior Tax Specialist is responsible for managing direct and indirect tax compliance (VAT / HAST / GST / IPT) and reporting processes, ensuring accuracy and timeliness in line with local regulations and group policies. This role requires solid technical expertise and autonomy in handling complex tax matters, as well as providing advisory support to the business. The Senior Tax Specialist also supports audits, drives process improvements, and acts as a mentor to junior colleagues.

The Senior Tax Specialist reports directly to the Head of Operational Tax.

Key Result Areas

Compliance & reporting:

• Prepare or review corporate income tax, VAT/GST/IPT, and withholding tax returns
• Ensure accurate tax accounting and reconciliations
• Proceed to the filing and payments of the corporate income tax, VAT/GST/IPT, withholding tax and other local taxes;

Audit support:

• Lead responses to tax authority queries, statutory audits, and internal audit requests

Process improvement:

• Contribute to standardization, automation, and efficiency projects within the tax function.

Cross-functional collaboration:

• Work closely with finance, accounting, operational teams and external tax consultants to ensure proper tax treatment of transactions.

Knowledge sharing:

• Provide guidance and informal coaching to junior tax team members.

Risk management:

• Ensure compliance with internal controls and contribute to identifying and mitigating tax risks.

Transfer Pricing:

• Prepare the annual transfer pricing reconciliation of transactions within Allianz Partners Group
• Ensure enquiries from external tax provider are addressed and responded to in a timely manner.

What you will bring:

Communication

• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Networking skills: Ability to liaise with members of other functions.
• Ability to work and communicate with different cultures, levels and organizations world-wide.

Efficiency /Accountability

• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to independently manage end-to-end compliance processes and resolve complex issues
• Solutions and results oriented.
• Openness and flexibility to address challenges from various perspectives in order to find the best possible way to manage the challenge.
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills.

Team work

• Accountability
• Ability to undertake initiative
• Ability to explain technical matters in a clear, business-oriented way; comfortable interacting with auditors, consultants, and local authorities

Technical knowledge

• Finance and Insurance Acumen
• Strong expertise in corporate income tax and indirect tax; good understanding of withholding tax and tax accounting (deferred taxes, provisions).
• SAP knowledge
• Excel proficiency

What we offer:

•    Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.
•    We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. 
•    Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

84168 | Finance & Accounting | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 
We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.
Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow.
Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz’ company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company encourages its employees to have motivation in gaining varied skills from different positions and to collect experiences from across Allianz Group.