Senior Tax Associate at Bolt

Bolt, previously known as Taxify, is the leading European transportation platform providing ride-hailing and scooter sharing services. The company’s mission is to make urban travel easier, quicker and more reliable

Your daily adventures will include:

• Provide strategic advice to the business with respect to tax compliance.


• Review and analyze legislative changes and their impact to the overall business environment.


• Proactively seeks for process improvement opportunities and advise the Line Manager on any non-compliance


• To participate and contribute to the success of month-end close by executing tasks accurately and according to the timetable.


• Provides support to tax leadership in specific projects.


• Flag risks and tax saving opportunities identified during the return preparation and flag unusual or new business scenarios and comment on their tax treatment


• Manage the preparation, review and submission of direct and indirect tax returns to the revenue authority.


• Prepare reconciliation of direct and indirect tax returns to the General Ledger


• Responsible for obtaining the sign off on the returns by the relevant person and ensures that the payments are initiated and followed up on time.


• Provide technical guidance and support for any technical questions coming from the business or from the tax authorities.


• Providing input to cash-forecast ensuring that entities are properly funded on time for tax settlements


• Provide support on overall tax related audits inquiries from tax authorities and projects globally.


• Support the annual transfer pricing processes, ensuring transfer pricing principles are reflected in the Company’s direct tax returns.


• Forecasting and analysis of quarterly and annual effective tax rates and identification of key drivers of the ETR.


• Support in training non-finance stakeholders to understand the impact of taxes on their daily operations.


• Actively managing and coordinating tax document retention.


• Contributing to continuous process improvement- through establishing a LEAN approach to drive effectiveness and efficiency of direct tax compliance


• Streamline tax processes and support the control agenda on tax risks and opportunities.


• Ownership of tax risk management including provisioning of uncertain tax positions and the support in preparation of financial statements.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of indirect tax experience, ideally with a mix accounting and in-house for multinational groups. Work experience from digital business is a plus but not absolute requirement.


• Excellent understanding and experience in dealing with various indirect taxes that may affect business, including international taxation.


• Good general accounting/finance skills and experience.


• Experience with financial systems (ERP, consolidation tools and management reporting tools) is a plus.


• Relevant education such as lawyer, CPA, economist or education from tax administration or any combination thereof.


• You have very solid knowledge about indirect tax and international tax in a global organization.


• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.


• Intellectually curious and eager to learn and develop every day.


• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build strong relations with internal stakeholders and teams in a multicultural global entrepreneurial environment.


• You believe in open, honest and direct communication with colleagues and working together to come up with the best solutions.


• Not afraid to challenge and question colleagues (regardless of level) in a constructive manner always with the best solution for Bolt at heart

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