Sr Specialist Tax - Digital Compliance Solutions

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Senior Specialist Digital Tax Reporting Solutions will be responsible to support the correct and complete implementation and manage the maintenance of the adidas e-reporting, e-invoicing and others reports mandates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible to guarantee data maintenance, readiness and accuracy, in a proactively manner
• Responsible for analyzing tax data collected through e-invoicing and e-reporting systems, to provide insights to corporate tax and local markets and ensure accuracy and reconcile with the source systems.
• Accountable for investigating, raising issues whenever needed and resolving discrepancies found on the reconciliation process
• Ensure an ongoing  and open communication with the teams involved on the different parts of the process to support fast issue solving mindset
• Ensure to manage the tasks using the standard established procedures.
• Responsible for suggesting process improvements, and suggest new working processes in the team to ensure efficiency and excellence, as well as support their implementation
• Responsible for maintaining files and documentation up to date and accurate.

Key Relationships:

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

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Solid knowledge in SAP FI from a user perspective is mandatory
• Minimum  2 years of experience in participating in 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 between 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.
• Ability to work autonomously
• must be deadline driven, results-oriented, 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 3-5 years of relevant work experience in SAP FI projects for finance, tax and IT functions