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Direct Tax Specialist
Shell
Kraków, Poland
Posted on Mar 13, 2025
The Direct Tax Specialist role is designed for supporting and delivering activities carried out by the Manage Direct Tax team (MDT Team). It provides a very good exposure on Direct Tax Compliance and Group Reporting for several Latin America countries.
The role also involves individual contributor responsibilities, primarily as a preparer of a limited number of legal entities in assigned location/s. We work in hybrid model.
What will you do
Deliver on time and accurate tax calculation and reporting of Monthly, Quarterly and Annual Direct Tax Provisions and related Advance Tax payments;
Understand and operate tax provisioning and compliance tools;
Understand Group Accounting and Reporting changes and enable incorporation of changes in the process as may be relevant;
Prepare Monthly (or ad-hoc) Tax Returns;
Support the preparation of Annual Tax Return of several entities;
Ensure timely submission of internal reports for direct tax reconciliation to the controllers;
Responsible for various tax accounts reconciliation;
Provide Quarterly submission of direct tax key performance indicators;
Resolve complex direct tax issues, liaise with counter-parties and other departments on variances reconciliations, plausibility checks, dry-run analysis;
Support quarterly and annual audit support (internal, external and Tax Authorities);
Develop templates and collate information to respond inquiries from tax authorities and internal stakeholders;
Providing strong support to Business Groups in their control of business related tax risks with accuracy and timely;
Keep track, evidences and support for SOX or Key non SOX controls effectiveness;
Support and work on transition additional/new scope migrations of MDT activities.
Your Skills
University degree (Law, Economy, Finance, Accounting, Mathematics)
Very good communication skills;
Comfortable working under time pressure situations;
Effective stakeholder management
Minimum of 4-5 years of experience in accounting/finance in multinational environment;
Previous experience in Tax will be an asset
Fluent English
Experience of using a major ERP system such as SAP, SUN, JDE, Oracle, PeopleSoft;
Awareness of Tax Guidelines
Excellent Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel