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EMEA Tax Analyst (Italian speaker) - Torino based

Job Name

EMEA Tax Analyst (Italian speaker) - Torino based

Country:

Italy

City:

Pessione

Function:

Finance - Administration

Reporting Line:

EMEA Tax Manager CIT & VAT Compliance

Job type:

Full time

Lead recruiter:

Massimo Li Volti

About the role

YOUR OPPORTUNITY

Bases in our Pessione (Torino) plant, this role will include working with tax compliance processes from EMEA countries (with the special focus on Italy for both CIT and VAT), ensuring the filings are submitted on time, tracking tax law changes, and implementing accordingly. This role will help you to increase the knowledge in tax by working with different markets at the same time, working with different tax professionals and tax advisors.  Also, this position helps the person to develop different soft skills due to the high interaction across many functions (Finance & Non-Finance) as a resource to the international markets and service centre employees. The candidate will deal with confidential and sensitive data and must ensure conformity with policies, procedures, and regulations of Bacardi and external government agencies.

ABOUT YOU

This role is for you if you are a tax professional looking for a step up in your tax career to learn about other tax legislations and tax processes, with strong analytical and diagnostic skills, curious to challenge the status quo and with an excellent customer service mindset. 

Responsibilities

WITH OUR CONSUMER AT THE HEART YOUR KEY FOCUS WILL BE
  • Execution of the migration of the tax filings work and internal/local tax processes from another team member or local market with the special focus on Italy.
  • Extraction and review of data from SAP for the preparation of the local fillings. 
  • Coordinate the information flow from and to the local finance teams and the local advisors as applicable. 
  • Timely and accurate filing of the tax filings/returns with the Tax Authorities. 
  • Coordination and approval of the tax payments derived from the tax filings – thresholds. 
  • Coordination with Bacardi Enterprise Services (BES) of any information required for the filings and ensuring that the information received from BES is correct for the purpose of the filings and returns.  Work with BES in case information needs to be corrected or processes re-designed as necessary. 
  • Review of the reconciliations of the tax accounts on a monthly and yearly basis. 
  • Preparation/review of the Corporate Income Tax provision (current and deferred tax) and complete the tax worksheets for the purpose of corporate consolidation. 
  • Documentation, implementation and improvement of processes and flows of information for the purpose of generating the tax filings/returns. 
  • Keep updated with regards to changes in the law or internally that impact the filings/returns. 
  • Collaborate in the implementation of tax law changes and internal or external audits. 

Skills and Experience

THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED TO CREATE YOUR LEGACY
  • Must be fluent in English and Italian (another language is a plus)
  • Bachelor’s degree and/or Master’s degree Accounting or Business Administration (preferably obtained in Italy)
  • Strong analytical and diagnostic skills
  • Previous experience in tax filings/returns: 2-3 years at least.
  • Previous accounting experience beyond tax: 2-3 years at least.
  • Italian tax filings experience: preferable
  • Previous experience with SAP is a must
  • Previous experience in Shared Services environment- preferred
  • Big 4 previous experience- preferred
  • Proficiency with MS Office Suite (particularly MS Excel) and MS SharePoint
  • Detail oriented with the ability to capture information in a clear, concise manner and can adapt information for various audiences 


PERSONAL QUALITIES – SHARE OUR FOUNDER’S PASSION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL FLAIR
  • Operate and orchestrate seamlessly within the matrix 
  • Strong analytical and diagnostic skills
  • Detail oriented with the ability to capture information in a clear, concise manner and can adapt information for various audiences

Our culture

We share the passion and entrepreneurial flair of our founder and are guided by our three culture pillars - Fearless, Family and Founders, they inspire our Primos to be the best they can be and drive us forward in all we do. But what does this mean?

·       Being Fearless; means adopting an agile mindset, being comfortable trying new things and taking risks. We are empowered to question, challenge and innovate.

·       Family; We treat each other, and our communities, like Family. Always.

·       Founders; The spirit of entrepreneurship is at the heart of everything we do. We see the business as if it’s our own. We do the right thing for the business and we all take accountability for our work.

When you join Bacardi, you become part of our family and gain more than just a job.


Disclaimer: Bacardi is an equal opportunity employer that values workforce diversity. Diversity is core to our business: by embedding diversity into all aspects of our culture, we maximize the opportunity to achieve sustainable business success and growth. The duties and responsibilities described in the role profile might not be a comprehensive list.