Country Tax Manager Poland

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Date: Jan 17, 2025

Location: Warsaw, PL

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

 

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com 

 

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Key responsibilities

 

•    Collaborate in the global tax team to devise efficient solutions aligned with group tax strategies, focusing on Poland.
•    Stay updated on tax regulations, acting as the tax focal point for Accounting Controllers, Business Navigators, and local stakeholders.
•    Operate as the in-country tax expert, providing guidance on Corporate Income Tax (CIT), Withholding Tax (WHT), and Value Added Tax (VAT) to local stakeholders and the global tax team.
•    Manage local CIT processes, overseeing CIT returns, and ensuring alignment between Tax Service Provider, regional accounting center, and Accounting Controller for tax return finalization and filing.
•    Support Accounting Controller with Statutory Tax requirements and oversee the VAT filing process, coordinating with service providers and ensuring local VAT filing compliance.
•    Take charge of local transfer pricing documentation, filing TPR-C return, and CbCR notification, while providing guidance on IFRS tax reporting and managing local DAC-6 reporting (MDR).
•    Act as the primary contact for tax authorities, overseeing local tax audits (CIT/VAT) and other inquiries, cooperating with statutory auditors on tax matters.
•    Proactively identify initiatives to mitigate local risks or capture opportunities, engaging in projects aimed at enhancing tax effectiveness and optimizing local tax processes.
•    Support global projects, ensuring proper consideration of local tax implications, and coordinate tax-driven projects such as e-invoicing and white-list compliance.
•    Ensure compliance with local tax laws, optimize tax processes in line with local requirements, and cultivate a strong local finance network, including GBS, for efficient tax processes.

 

Our requirements

 

•    Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or a related field.
•    Tax professional with at least 5 years of experience in managing various tax processes.
•    Experience in tax accounting. 
•    Proficiency in overseeing the preparation and filing of Corporate Income Tax (CIT) returns, Value Added Tax (VAT) filings, and other statutory tax requirements.
•    Basic understanding of ERP systems (SAP preferred).
•    Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate tax-driven projects, ensuring alignment with local and global objectives.
•    Excellent communication skills with the ability to act as a liaison between the global tax team, local stakeholders, and tax authorities.
•    Fluent in English and Polish (written and spoken).

 

What we offer

 

•    Competitive salary. 
•    Yearly bonus. 
•    Comprehensive medical coverage through Lux Med, including a dental package.
•    Access to modern work tools and office space.
•    Learning Cafeteria, including access to Percipio.
•    Flexibility to work in a hybrid model.
•    Possibility to acquire professional certifications, such as Lean Six Sigma belt.

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At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

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