About this opportunity
- Would you like to be part of our journey towards a new digital tax landscape?
- Are you interested in working with improvement initiatives aimed at optimizing our processes through the use of technology, new tools and improved ways of working?
- Are you interested in achieving operational simplification through development and management of our processes within the tax area?
We are now in the search of a second Tax Process Lead within the Accounting Process Management team. This team is part of the Finance Process Organization within Global Finance Operations under GFGO.
In the role as Tax Process Lead, you will work closely with Group Taxes and the Tax Management Units in our Company Control Hubs as well as with other key stakeholders. Main activities for the Tax Process Lead position are to develop and manage the processes within the tax area to enable operational simplification.
The successful candidate is expected to be able to take lead and implement processes based of new tax accounting standards and/or Ericsson Finance requirements. The candidate will need to leverage on automation and analytics in their quest of transforming and pushing our tax area forward. A large part of the work is connected to various improvement initiatives within taxes.
Job areas include:
- Direct taxes
- Indirect taxes
- Transfer pricing
To enable success in this role, the candidate is expected to be a secure and competent individual that possesses a pro-active and positive attitude towards change and process development, is capable of executing speedily and has great collaboration and cooperation skills as one will work closely with functional owners and leaders, finance operations, IT and external auditors.
At Ericsson, we give our employees the freedom to think big. Your ideas and innovations can therefore turn into achievements that impact our ways of working and ultimately our bottom line. Are you therefore ready to be our Tax process lead and change-maker?
What you will do
- You will develop and optimize processes (with internal as well as external input)
- Release, implement & support processes
- Perform process measurements and process assessments
- You will handle demands and process deviations
- You will drive cross process coordination
- Lead/participate in projects
- You will lead policy framework and deployment
- Drive finance improvement framework
You will bring
- Education: Bachelor in Business Administration, Accounting, Tax, Finance or equivalent.
- Minimum years of experience: 5 years within Finance & Accounting
- You have business understanding and social and negotiation skills
- Change & improvement management skills
- Knowledge of Financial Models
- You have coaching and mentoring skills
- Relating & Networking
- Responsible for driving results and meeting stakeholder’s expectations
Benefits:
- 25 vacation days/year;
- Medical & life insurance;
- Career plan mentoring;
- Competitive referral bonuses for recommending your friends to work at Ericsson;
- Flexible benefits from your favorite brands available on flexible benefits portal;
- Gym subscription (available in flex benefits together with a series of other options);
- Internal learning platform to develop your knowledge, skills, and proficiencies & curated external content - articles, videos, courses, podcasts, and books from external libraries such as Skillsoft, Pluralsight, Big Think, EdX, TED Talks, Khan Academy,
- YouTube, and the open web itself (learning platform mobile-enabled);
- In the case of travel, daily allowance, transport, and accommodation will be paid by the company;
- Part of an active community via Brand Ambassadors, CSR Activities, Sports Teams.
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Why join Ericsson?
At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build never seen before solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply?
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