Indirect Tax Advisor

Finance, Legal & Property

Who you are

We are recruiting an Indirect Tax Advisor for the Finance Development and Operations team!

As the Indirect Tax Advisor, you have a broad knowledge of different Indirect Tax legislations and knowledge about Indirect Tax related functionalities in SAP. You have a university degree in Tax Law, Tax Economics or an equivalent degree.

You have 5+ years of experience in an Indirect Tax advisory role in a multinational company or as an international tax consultant in indirect tax.

Collaboration and sharing your specialist knowledge will come very easily! You have experience from driving and implementing tax projects in different countries preferably in Retail businesses.

Connecting with colleagues from many different countries will be something you love and will be able to communicate clearly and effectively in English.

This is a permanent position can be based in either Amsterdam or Malmo, Sweden. IKEA is providing international relocation support for this role.

Your responsibilities

The purpose of the Indirect Tax function is to support, guide and monitor the Ingka Group organisation in a pro-active way on the management of Indirect Taxes (VAT, Sales Tax, GST, etc.) including tax reporting requirements. You will be working in an international, dynamic environment, constantly in change and development, at a high pace.

Your main assignment will be to:

• Support in securing the implementation and adherence to Ingka Group Tax Principles and Rules
• Support in the design and implementation of relevant parts of the Tax Control Framework
• Collect indirect tax requirements, support relevant processes with translating the requirements into the relevant systems and secure that output from relevant systems reflects those requirements
• Be an active contributor in our Business Operations Transformation programme (i.e. implementation of SAP components in our system landscape), the working processes and the system landscape, with the goal to reach maximum compliance and efficiency while enabling the business.
• Provide accurate indirect tax input to Electronic Tax Reporting initiatives (e.g. SAF-T)
• Monitor the interpretation and implementation of Indirect Tax requirements in projects and processes related to Ingka Group stores, e-Commerce web platform, distribution centres and shopping centres.
• Take part in projects driven by Group Tax such as the development of a tax control framework and the drafting of tax rules and guidelines.
• Provide specialised support to initiatives which have an indirect tax systems component

Together as a team

Our purpose in Finance Development and Operations is to eliminate waste, standardise and automate processes, provide modern ways of working with new insights to better support the business at a lower cost while securing compliance and data quality.