Statutory & Direct Tax Senior Accountant at Syngenta

You will be the part of our Senior Statutory Accountant will be the part of our Account-to-Report (ATR) organization, which supports the statutory financial statement preparations and direct tax filings across our legal entities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

We all have a critical role to play and add value. Here is how this role will help:

• Prepare annual financial statements and support direct tax filing process in accordance with local GAAP(in this case country adopted IFRS), tax regulations
• Prepare and Support completions of group reporting tax package
• Prepare annual transfer pricing profit monitoring assessment and conclude on profit adjustment requirement based group transfer pricing policies
• Own and coordinate the external audits with local & Hungarian auditors
• Coordinate background organizations, local business & finance stakeholders to supply information for the statutory closes
• Participate in internal audits where relevant
• Drive process improvements and engage in global digital initiatives to enable a very efficient, effective statutory closes for entities responsible for
• Supporting local tax, customs audits

Qualifications

At Syngenta we are highly people focused – we look for professionals who are engaged, collaborative and excellent in execution. Leaders are expected to communicate effectively, develop teams and lead by example. Our industry and our function are changing rapidly so we are looking for new team members with a strong desire to develop themselves. You will be a great fit if you have:

• 5-7 years of experience on the field of Finance and/or Audit
• 2- 3 year experience in overall annual financial statement preparation in IFRS (Preparation of a full set of annual financial statement in critical for this role)
• Good understanding of IFRS
• Experience in working in a multinational environment
• Experience with transfer pricing calculations
• Experience with completing tax computation and also completing tax schedules
• Good understanding of general tax rules ( VAT, Withholding Taxes ETC..)
• Experience in coordinating the work with external auditors
• Result oriented mindset, ‘driving’ attitude
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP experience preferred)
• High Interest to digital projects in statutory accounting and reporting
• Ability to efficiently prioritize and drive for performance
• Seeks opportunities to gather feedback and modify behavior to enhance impact and improve performance