You build and promote great relationships with colleagues, design customer experiences that inspire loyalty. You are the most important pillar of our success. You make the difference. **YOUR ROLE **:To establish direct tax process in AND/BRA to ensure compliance in direct tax matters for internal purposes (eg tax webform reporting, tax provisions, TP doc, corporate tax guidelines) and for external purposes (to meet local tax law requirements) to review and to propose changes to the current tax workflow both for indirect and direct taxes with the purpose to detect structural issues and remediate, by proposing changes, processes, projects and all necessary means, to secure accuracy, completeness and correctness and to optimize from mere workflows into processes to coordinate the systems changes required for the processing of tax matters (indirect but also direct tax if any) with all stakeholders, the corresponding changes in business processes, and inflow requirements to the IT/IS teams in order to develop, enhance and maintain such processes to proactively recognize, propose and implement planning opportunities along our business model to optimize indirect local taxes (sunken cost VAT) along with region and corporate to drive and implement in AND/BRA the corporate Tax automation project in collaboration with tax systems IT and corporate tax - for this purpose liase with existing indirect tax structure and tax systems IT to find systemic solutions for existing issues Also acts as adviser to management on tax related issues, he must be capable of working with a diverse group of people To prepare/answer Tax audits To define and create the defense strategy in Litigation process against Tax Claims/process, establish a follow-up procedure and offer visibility to Corporate Tax and Cluster/Regional Finance Management. **YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES**: - Owns process for accuracy, completeness and correctness of advance tax payments / tax provisions / withholding tax and optimizing cash outflows in both indirect and direct tax areas - Advise on the preparation of indirect and direct tax returns in Cluster - Prepare/review transactional analyses and documentation for tax reporting and audit defense - Manage the international related tax affairs related to transfer pricing, withholding tax issues and special projects as needed in cooperation / support from region or corporate - Ensure indirect taxation incl WHT are properly applied throughout all business flows; - Keep the company up to date with all changes and new regulation around taxation matters. - Experience to collaborate in a network structure with dotted reporting lines to corporate tax responsible function - Proven practical experience to lead and guide external consultants when needed/required **YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES**: - University Degree in ADM, COMEX, IR or alike - Comprehensive experience in Taxes & Accounting skills. Ideally, have worked in organizations with matrix reports - Accounting skills - Leadership - Customer (internal and external) orientation is required - Process mapping and analysis