Tax Advisor Poland

The Tax Advisor plays a critical role in identification of the opportunities and risks arising from changing legal and fiscal environment or business processes. The key part of the role is to partner with external stakeholders like tax authorities, customs, regulators, auditors and tax advisors.  The Tax Advisor acts as an integrator of various finance teams, supporting end to end correctness of fragmented finance processes, cooperates with various internal stakeholders mainly from the business and Finance Operations.

Accountabilities:
- Ultimate responsibility for the Tax affairs of Shell Polska companies
- Ensure compliance with European and Polish tax reporting and fiscal legislation and Shell Group standards and policies
- Provide concise, accurate, comprehensive, intelligible and timely tax advice to stakeholders, including advice in relation to legislative changes, the introduction of new products or services and business restructuring
- Fiscal authority relationship management (visits, engagements, communications)
- Represent Shell in front of governmental/industry bodies
- Implementation of new tax law / project management (incl. partnering with external tax advisors)
- Manage challenges and audits by tax authorities; lead process and provide information and documents for audits/assessments/appeals
- Ongoing tax support for the business – validation of new business scenarios, tax advice and shaping / business opportunities optimization, looking for simplification of tax related processes
- Partner with Tax: Business advise on tax matters as it relates to compliance (e.g. review of contracts, issues, registrations/licenses)
- Raise tax awareness within local community, coach staff and advise on tax and accounting issues; ensure sharing of best practice
- Support development and implementation of Group standards/processes
- Supervision of preparation and submission of periodical VAT & corporate tax returns, and other reports for taxes and close cooperation with FO Tax
- Control correctness of tax coding with regard to MRD and transactional data

Value management and operational excellence
- Support the Business and Functions for their activities requiring corporate finance support
- Support finance aspects of new business implementations, new projects, new business ideas, portfolio activities
- Understand and constructively challenge business requests while looking for additional business activities that may benefit from tax advice
- Ensure resolution of non-standard issues arising at interfaces of various finance processes and functions
- Provide general legal/fiscal advice on contractual, fiscal and commercial matters
- Actively monitor finance control framework and risk matrix

DIMENSIONS OF THE ROLE:

Taxes in scope: All taxes in Poland including Direct Tax, Property Tax, Local Corporate Tax, Indirect Tax, Employment Tax, Excise duties.

No direct reports, but managing processes within matrix organization including FO Tax

KEY SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE:
- University degree in Finance/Accountancy, Law/Tax

- Minimum 10+ years’ work experience in various financial positions (tax, accounting, finance)
- Minimum 8+ years’ work experience in tax compliance or advisory
- Tax Advisor Certificate will be an asset
- Proficiency in Corporation tax law, VAT regulations, excise duty, municipal taxes and duties, Transfer pricing
- Strong external focus with ability to represent the company to local tax authorities and other external stakeholders
- Ability to build strong relationships with various internal stakeholders, effective influencing and leadership skills
- Keen and motivated to learn, self-driven team player
- Commercial acumen and looking for solutions supporting new business ideas, proactive “can do” attitude and able to work independently without direct supervision
- Responding effectively to dynamically changing environment and new challenges
- Make decisions under ambiguity, time pressure and managing conflicting priorities of impacted stakeholders
- Continuous improvement mindset and problem-solving skills
- Fluency in English and Polish