Tax Reporting & Compliance Reviewer

Job purpose

· Will have accountability and responsibility in ensuring that all the Tax Reports, Filings and Information submitted to Tax Advisors, Tax Authorities and relevant cross functional departments (eg Payments and other Finance departments) are complete, accurate and consistent with the Country Tax and related regulatory requirements.

· Works with Tax Analysts in addressing completeness, accuracy and other filing issues through real time coaching and/or training to bridge any knowledge gaps and improve the quality of outputs.

· Ensure that all accounting entries associated with all Tax Filing are accurate, timely and thoroughly supported with relevant documents and can easily be reconciled and explained to Tax Auditors during Tax Audits.

· Partners with Tax Advisors/Finance colleagues in ensuring quality and completeness of all the filings, reports and other related requirements submitted to Tax Auditors and Tax Authorities.

· Works with Tax Reporting and Compliance Manager in addressing Accuracy and Completeness gaps through process improvements, optimization, and transformation recommendations.

Duties and responsibilities

· Review Tax Reporting and Compliance filing using the Standard QA Checklist to identify accuracy errors (ie calculation errors, incorrect data source, incorrect amount, missing information, unreconciled data, etc) and have them corrected prior to submissions.

· Monitor reports preparation, filing and other tax related activities, such as, but not limited to, extracting documents needed for Tax Audits, to ensure that they are produced on time and in an appropriate format before they are submitted to Tax Advisors, Tax Auditors, Tax Authorities and other relevant stakeholders.

· Initial/Main Point of Contact (or the face of Tax Reporting and Compliance) to Tax Advisors, Tax Auditors, Tax Authorities and other Internal and External stakeholders on tax related matters.

· Review and Approve all Payment Requests coming from Tax Reporting and Compliance Analysts to ensure that they contain the correct Tax ID and required filing references.

· Check Tax accounting entries to validate that the postings are done in accordance with the Tax Accounting Standards and are supported with complete and valid supporting documents.

· Perform or review Tax accounts reconciliations and data analysis as required by Tax Audit and other stakeholders.

· Ensure all errors captured in the review are corrected and preventive actions are developed, cascaded, and implemented to avoid their recurrence.

· Capture review errors highlighted by Tax Advisors and ensure that the QA checklists are updated, SOPs are amended (if needed) and/or Analysts trained accordingly.

· Address quality related escalations and manage relationships with and expectations of Group Tax, GSC internal finance teams and 3rd party Advisors/Auditors and Tax Authorities as appropriate.

· Keep abreast of relevant tax regulatory changes and ensure they are cascaded to the respective Analysts and other relevant parties and related documentations are updated accordingly.

· Ensure final returns, working files and other related documents are stored on SharePoint.

· Highlight, address or escalate potential risks of delays from the review of the Tax Reporting and Compliance Trackers and progress of Analysts’ deliverables related to their BAU; Tax Audit and other requirements.

· Coach and train Tax Reporting and Compliance and Accounting Analysts on all errors captured during the review.

· Monitor and report all quality and completeness metrics of Tax Reporting and Compliance delivery. Highlight root causes of the errors and present plans on how to address, improve and prevent errors moving forward

· Perform other tasks assigned by the Tax Reporting and Compliance Managers/Director.

Qualifications

· CPA

· At least 5 years of relevant experience in Direct and Indirect Taxes

· At least 2 years of experience in Tax Compliance Review process

· Dynamic, hands-on, proactive self-starter, high ownership and resilient

· Ability to coach and develop people

· Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), with proven ability to communicate across all levels within the organization and with external parties

· Able to prioritize tasks, manage issues and produce results in a timely manner

· Highly analytical and detail-oriented

· The following are preferred but not required:

o Knowledge of international tax

o Experience in Big 4

o Experience in dealing with and managing 3rd party service providers

o Proficient in MS applications

o Experience in Billing, Cash Applications, Accounts Payable and General Accounting/Reconciliation