Associate Tax Specialist

In this role you will be responsible for Indirect and/or Direct Tax Compliance and Tax Accounting for our Spanish Dow companies. You will be responsible to ensure Tax filings are done on time as per legal due dates. By using our up-to-date systems and tools you will be analyzing financial information and translates it into information useful for Tax purposes within a small geography/country or business. You will also support activities related to local tax issues, audits, appeals, compliance, legislative tax policy, and tax planning. Involvement in projects will be part of your development as well.

What’s your job about?

• Review tax returns as per country tax requirements. This will be in the area of Indirect Tax (VAT, Intrastat, Sales list) and/or prepare Direct Tax (Withholding Tax, Corporate Income Tax, Transfer pricing)
• Provide support for annual tax activities management with respect to country tax legislation (i.e. Annual Income Tax, Annual Tax Declaration including Schedules, Annual Tax Information, Fiscal Inform, and External Audits).
• Support communication links to Tax Authorities, External Audit Staff, and Tax Advisors.
• Able to work independent on Tax activities, under guidance of Country Tax manager
• Responsible for Tax data analyzing and will assist on implementing new Tax technology in the EMEAI region
• Identifies work process improvement opportunities and/or automation opportunities.
• Recognizes and solves typical problems that can occur in work area by evaluating and selecting solutions from established operating procedures and/or analytical/scientific methods under a moderate degree of supervision
• Acts in compliance with SOX policies and procedures.
• Joins this role as entry-level using conceptual knowledge of theories, practices, and procedures typically learned from university.

What skills do you have?
Education Qualification
Minimum Requirement: Bachelor degree in Tax or Finance.

Experience

• 1-5 years of experience in Tax or Finance
• Good understanding of Tax principles (VAT, Corporate Income Tax, Transfer Pricing)
• Understanding of accounting
• Working knowledge of SAP and reporting tools.

Other Qualifications

• Experience in MS application skills such as Teams, Sharepoint, Excel, and Word.
• Fluent in Spanish and English (both written and spoken). Multi-language skills are a plus
• Team Player with a Positive attitude
• Good analytical skills and interest for digitization
• Focus on work process improvements
• Proven communication (verbal and written), interpersonal, problem solving and negotiation skills.

What do you get in return?

• Competitive salary
• 25 holidays
• 13th month
• Travel and tunnel costs will be reimbursed

Tax Department
You will be working in a high performance, multi-cultural, cross-functional team environment. We are focused on employee and department development. Key words are compliance, learning, work process improvements, continued digitization, efficiency. Work arrangements are flexible and allow working from home.

You will be part of the Tax Operations EMEAI organization. The department has around 20 employees, most of them located in Terneuzen (NL). We are responsible for all taxes for all Dow legal entities in this region. In total these are over 100 registrations in more than 30 countries