Tax Process Expert Lead

**Tax Process Expert Lead (Center of Excellence)**

**PURPOSE**

Within our one Tax Community and our Operating Model for Taxes at Bayer, the Global Business Services (GBS) team plays a key role performing international and local tax activities regarding Tax Compliance (including Indirect & Direct taxes), Tax Accounting and Transfer Pricing, and provides tax advice within the GBS community and contributes to continuous process improvements.

As part of the organization within the GBS community, we have a Tax Center of Excellence (CoE) team all around the different locations that encompasses different process areas as Tax Compliance, Tax Accounting, Transfer Pricing, Tax Technology and Digital Transformation.

The main activities and responsibilities of this team are giving tax advise within the GBS team and be key contact to headquarters and local teams; caretaking for outsourcing; managing complex tax activities within the region under scope and/or with global impact, including tax audit support; continuous process improvements (cross-functional alignments, automation & data analytics); support to Global Process Owner (GPO)’s projects; knowledge management; give advice on tax reporting activities; etc.

The team acts as the counterpart of the respective GPOs, both putting the global standards/settings into operations and providing the feedback, ideas, and operational knowledge from the operations.

For our Global CoE Tax team, we are looking for a CoE Tax Process Expert Lead who is and acts as a senior expert within the tax processes, supporting and providing functional guidance to the tax teams, in order to contribute at and skill them.

**YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Identify process improvement needs and align with CoE / GPO organization.
- Manage and support continuous process improvements (cross-functional alignments, automation & data analytics), prepare, and conduct respective trainings.
- Support tax teams for technical and/or process related questions.
- Participation and leading role in cross department assignments within GBS for process related topics.
- Distribute and coordinate tax requirements with other process areas.
- GPO project support (e.g., transitions).
- Monitor key process metrics that measure performance, Service Level Agreement (SLA) and benchmarks targets across GBS locations.
- Use and train data analytics based on state-of-the-art technologies to analyze financial data to ensure data and tax compliance quality.
- Manage knowledge by guiding, documenting, and training Bayer´s process, activity split, IT enabler, workflow, and control standards across GBS locations to ensure that all locations act consistently.
- Manage tax tools and demands.

**WHO YOU ARE**
- B/BS/MBA in Accounting and/or Tax ideally combined with IT knowledge (or similar).
- 4+ years of work experience preferably in tax covering tax compliance / tax accounting, foundational level of process and system knowledge in increasing automated digital world and complex system landscape.
- Experience in leading technical projects (processes, organization, and people).
- Advanced level of technical accounting and financial reporting in a corporate environment.
- Ability to become a tax reporting expert for GBS
- Advanced ability to work through ambiguity.
- Advanced level of capability to understand complexity of changes with respect to business and regulatory environment and to respond quickly.
- Advanced level of capabilities to lead change, projects, and initiatives.
- Advanced level of capability to collaborate.
- Advanced level of capability to translate digital technologies into processes.
- Advanced level of capability to collaborate task/project oriented without geographical, organizational, or functional boarders.
- Strong tax judgement and business knowledge or ability to quickly learn.
- SAP experience is a plus.
- Very good analytical skills and the proactive attitude to drive process changes.
- Customer oriented mind-set, change management capabilities and Team player.
- Exceptional interpersonal communication, and presentation skills and ability to manage multiple and diverse stakeholders.
- English language should be fluent in spoken and writing (second language is an advantage).

**YOUR APPLICATION**

This is your opportunity to tackle the world’s biggest challenges with us: Maintaining our health, feeding growing populations and slowing the rate of climate change. You have a voice, ideas and perspectives and we want to hear them. Because our success begins with you. Be part of something big. Be Bayer.

**Location**:
Spain : Cataluña : Barcelona

**Division**:
Enabling Functions

**Reference Code**:
783381