Indirect Tax Vat Analyst

**Job Description**:
Job Summary:
The person hired for the position of Indirect Tax VAT Analyst will primarily be responsible for VAT compliance E2E process: Data reconciliation, VAT Return (VATR) & Ancillary (other) Reports Preparation, VATR & others Review, VAT Due Paid / Refunded, VAT Accounting and audit support for LATAM countries. Also, it is expected for this position to actively engaged with the country transition to the GSC and corresponding data remediation activities that comes with this process, from solving current “as is” scenarios to support the countries moved to the expected “to be” scenarios defined along the operation manager and project team.

Job Scope & Responsibilities:

- Impact: Own results.
- Work complexity & Innovation: Follows procedures. Challenges status quo. Develops and leads improvement solutions with supervisor’s guidance.
- Leadership role: Focuses on individual/self-performance.
- Key Responsibilities (Functional):

- Performs VAT Compliance process steps and analyzes general ledger, purchase orders, vouchers, tax returns, sourcing information or other data for appropriate tax technical treatment, timely and accurate reporting.
- Support VAT non-Compliance resolution within various work groups and deployed countries.
- Collaborates with teams and various work groups (Tax, RTR, STP, MDM, OTC, CRM, MTO, FTS, LEX, HTR) to resolve Tier 1 level issues.
- Have a Customer First mindset that exudes operational excellence to achieve SLAs, KPIs and other performance goals.
- Compliance to statutory (tax) regulations, 3M Global Financial Standards (GFS), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and other relevant regulations through controls mindset.
- Participates/leads projects related to 3M’s Business Transformation priorities (i.e., Polaris SAP deployment, Robotics & Process Automation (RPA), process standardization and various Lean Six Sigma (LSS) initiatives).
- Flexibility to engage in ad-hoc activities (i.e., internal/external audit, tax audit, etc) when needed.
- Actively engage the remediation tasks defined for each of the countries defined by the transition plan and project team.
- Identify process gaps and provide recommendation for process improvement.
- Provide any kind or performance/service reporting to the GSC Operations Manager.

Basic Qualifications:

- Minimum of 1-2 years relevant working experience in a Tax function preferably.
- Experience in shared service center and/or accounting/audit/consultancy firm is an advantage.
- Bachelor level university/college degree or higher in Business, Tax or Accounting.
- Working knowledge of theories/concepts and practices of Indirect Tax, particularly LATAM VAT.
- Ability to communicate in written and spoken English.
- Follows a variety of generally defined procedures under general guidance within disciplines of Indirect tax.
- Works independently and output is occasionally reviewed while in progress.
- The supervisor is consulted for assistance in problem areas.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Working knowledge in General Ledger Account Reconciliation tools (i.e, TRecs, Assurenet, Blackline, etc) is an advantage.
- Proof experience on VAT remediation activities and problem solving for LATAM countries, ideally Argentina, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
- Ability to create solutions for complex problems

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