Adidas INDIRECT TAX MANAGER 

China, Shanghai, Yangpu District 

419480854

Purpose and overall relevance for the organization:

Supporting the Head of Indirect Tax in the preparation and implementation of indirect tax strategies globally.

Responsibilities:

• Together with your colleagues, you'll be part of a global center of expertise for indirect taxation (VAT/GST, etc.), withholding taxes and all related issues
• Ensuring in collaboration with the regional tax leads that the global strategy is executed properly at market level (governance role)
• Business partnering and point of contact for Global Functions, GBS Systems and Control & Analytics team and the regional tax leads
• Advising and supporting operating units regarding the structuring and tax optimization of intra-company supply and service relationships for indirect taxes
• Working closely with the tax technology teams to ensure compliant VAT and WHT systems and processes
• Supporting the analysis and optimization of tax processes within the tax department, especially project-specific with regard to the use of IT support solutions
• Participation and support in tax audits

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Good indirect tax knowledge, and general knowledge of the most important international tax regulations
• Deep business understanding of processes and structures
• Affinity to tax technology and preferably some basic SAP knowledge
• High customer focus to ensure they understand tax requirements and increase willingness to comply with them
• Maneuverability in a constantly changing environment according to new processes in the company as well as constantly changing tax law
• Ability to work cross-functionally with different departments and subsidiaries and develop an understanding of external business drivers
• Experience in project management

Required education and experience / Minimum requirement:

• Completed university and technical college education / MBA
• In-depth knowledge of indirect taxation
• Basic knowledge of corporate tax and international tax law
• At least 5 years of professional experience in the field of indirect tax in an international corporation or a Big4 auditing company
• A healthy amount of initiative and commitment
• Good English language skills and familiarity with computer-aided work and communication tools