Senior VAT Specialist (12m FTC) at Linklaters

For Linklaters Service Delivery Centre Warsaw, we are currently recruiting for the Senior VAT Specialist role.

Your role

Senior VAT Specialist is responsible for:

• Assisting the VAT team in submitting final VAT returns (UK, UAE, KSA, Singapore, Ireland)
• Supporting international remote working processes on a timely basis
• Supporting the leader and team in other business tax related tasks
• Making sure weekly, monthly, quarterly and ad hoc reports are prepared according to the process and agreed schedule
• Providing support to the team leaders, finance managers and AP teams in terms of VAT correctness
• Ensuring high quality process documentation (SOPs)
• Acting as a back up to Tax Advisor in terms of process coordination between team members

Your experience

• 2 - 5+ years of professional experience preferably in a Shared Service/BPO.
• Understanding of tax rules, compliance, and reporting.
• Complex and broad VAT knowledge. Knowledge of WHT is an advantage.
• Customer focused and service orientated
• Quality oriented, attention to detail and accuracy
• Able to understand complex matters
• Strong organisational skills
• Flexible, with ability to cope with changing priorities

Linklaters and the Team

Linklaters are a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people  who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias, because we want everyone to feel that they belong. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common mind-set.

We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an    ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Key Benefits

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

• Private medical care
• Free in-house fitness centre
• Life insurance
• Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel
• Benefit Multisport club card or subsidised travel card
• Wide range of training opportunities

What sets us apart

At Linklaters

• We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our business
• We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment and governance responsibility commitments
• We celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion so our people can bring themselves to work
• We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to
• We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents and aspirations
• We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business
• We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust, respect and appreciation
• We support the health and wellbeing of our people, providing a safe space to talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as needed
• We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of others

Technical Skills:

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.