Sr Manager Tax - Digital Compliance Solutions

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Senior Manager Digital Compliance Solutions mission is support the correct and complete implementation and manage the maintenance of the adidas e-reporting, e-invoicing and others reports mandates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support timely new implementations of e-reporting and e-invoicing mandates
• Accountable of monitoring changes in tax laws and regulations across jurisdictions
• Ensure international tax compliance related to e-reporting requirements (including e-invoicing) across different jurisdictions
• Guarantee proactive maintenance, data readiness and accuracy
• Responsible to analyze tax data collected through e-invoicing and e-reporting systems and provide insights on the data collected
• Accountable to ensure data accuracy and reconcile with the source systems
• Responsible to investigate, identify and raise issues and resolve discrepancies found on the reconciliation process
• Accountable to promote and ensure the implementation of  automation projects, to enable the implementation of efficient processes
• Manage and define process improvements, and  establish new working processes within systems area to ensure efficiency and excellence  
• Ensure a constant and open communication with the teams involved in the different parts of the process to support the fast issue solving mindset
• Responsible for creating regular compliance reports for management and leadership review

Key Relationships:

• Corporate tax
• Local markets
• GBS teams
• Third party service providers

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Extensive knowledge in SAP FI from a user perspective is mandatory
• Minimum of  5 years of experience on implementing and delivering projects related to digitalization of tax reporting such as e-reporting and e-invoicing mandates
• Consolidated knowledge of accounting, tax and SAP
• Profficiency in MS-Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Advanced knowledge in MS Excel
• Experience in shared service center environment is a plus
• Strong customer focus and stakeholder management skills to interact with business partners
• Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a business setting
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a multi-team environment to achieve consensous decisions, always having adidas consistent growth in mind
• Critical thinking mindset
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Quick problem-solving skills
• Ability to work together with other finance and tech teams, ensuring a strong collaboration with other finance and tech teams.
• Must be adaptable, flexible, and able to deal with ambiguity in an ever-changing environment while maintaining a positive attitude and working collaboratively within the team
• Must be deadline driven, results-oriented, highly responsible and accountable
• Must be proactive, have strong initiative and be self-motivated Ability to pay close attention to detail, a high degree of accuracy and excellent organizational skills.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business Administration, Tax, Accounting, IT or other related areas
• At least 8-10 years of relevant work experience in finance SAP FI projects with tax and IT functions