Tax Accountant (Mandarin Speaker)

Job Title – Tax Accountant - Mandarin Speaker

Location – Manila

About Us

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected Consumer Products Company in the world. To achieve these, we need the world’s very best people.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

About You

• We’re looking for an individual with a drive to be the best: enabling Indonesia market to deliver great results in Tax. You must have the ability to drive change for efficiency and the skills to work with multiple stakeholders.

Function

• The Tax job family encompasses global roles accountable for the design and implementation of tax strategies, policies and the tax governance framework.  It also includes the provision of tax support to Diageo’s business units, delivery of projects to create shareholder value, and proactive management and mitigation of key tax risks. With the rapid digitalisation of indirect tax administration, the Tax Compliance team is increasingly dealing with real-time tax audits and other data requests from various authorities by providing timely access to accurate data. In addition to the tax compliance responsibilities, the team is heavily involved in the delivery of the Global Tax mission and Performance Promise agenda.
• The APAC Tax Compliance team is led from Budapest by the Head of Global Tax Process and Governance.
• This role reports into the APAC Tax Compliance Manager. It also works very closely with the local Tax Managers and the Financial Controllers and liaises with other internal & external stakeholders.

About the Role

The purpose of this role is to ensure that the market’s Tax Compliance processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently (utilising automation) and on time and the surrounding internal control procedures, legislative requirements are strictly adhered to.

• Ensuring that accounting for direct and indirect taxes including journal entry posting and balance sheet reconciliations are prepared according to the global standard process and controls, local DTPs, on time and utilising automation tools where applicable.
• Prepare quality reconciliations through deep understanding of the figures supported, reported
• Supporting routine tax-related enquiries and tax projects for assigned tasks. Act as back-up for delegated tasks when necessary.
• Supporting the APAC Tax Compliance SMEs.
• Supporting the Taiwan Tax Supervisor.
• Ensuring compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes working closely with Global and Local SMEs.
• Actively managing and coordinating tax-related document retention for assigned tasks.
• Taking responsibility for the day-to-day tasks required.
• Decision support for business partners through value-add analysis, thorough understanding of movements on accounts, the business reason behind those, and collection and presentation of Risk & Opportunities
• Ensuring smooth and accurate month-end closes
• Prepare and post accruals/adjustments/other required journals to ensure the month-end results show the clear and fair picture
• Ensuring that financial processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding internal control procedures are strictly adhered to in line with CARM processes
• Maximizing benefits of globalized system processes
• Setting work priorities and in general independence of work activities
• Identifying and driving continuous process improvement to drive effectiveness and efficiency - supporting process improvements and rollout of standardised processes and automation re in scope markets.
• Contributing ideas, energy, enthusiasm and support to the continuous improvement of the processes.
• Promptly responding to market queries in respect of markets in her/his responsibility and supporting APAC Compliance Manager, tax managers, SMEs in non-routine questions, global projects, and during tax audits in her/his competency.
• Continuously maintaining excellent personal and business relationship with the market and in-house stakeholders
• Pro-actively supporting internal projects to facilitate the ongoing transformation and improvement of Diageo’s Global Tax function (including providing relevant information, answering ad hoc requests and suggesting alternative ways of working)

Experience required/Skills/Capabilities/Languages

• University / College degree in finance / accounting / business / CPA
• At least 1-3 years working experience in a multinational corporate environment
• Focused experience in accounting / GL reconciliation / taxation experience is strongly preferred
• Experience with Shared services / FMCG process activities is an advantage
• Capable of working in a deadline driven environment
• Hard working personality, flexibility for adopting to change with positive attitude
• Fluent in English, able to communicate effectively to build strong relationships with operational staff and stakeholders
• Basic understanding of Mandarin (esp. in reading)
• SAP knowledge is an advantage

Diversity statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Character Is Everything