Siemens Energy

About the role

Location: Lagos, Nigeria 

Department: Finance

Mode of Employment: Permanent / Full-time Position Title: Tax Professional

A Snapshot of Your Day

Tax Professional – Siemens Energy

Do you have a passion for tax and want to take the next step in your career?
As a Tax Professional, you will operate in a diverse, dynamic, and multidisciplinary environment, working closely with multiple business functions. You will play a key role in tax-related strategic matters, supporting business decisions and helping to drive sustainable business value while ensuring compliance with applicable tax regulations.

How You’ll Make an Impact

Project and Business Support

• Maintain ongoing contact with management, functional stakeholders, as well as local authorities and external consultants.
• Develop a strong understanding of the company’s business model structure and provide relevant tax advice, ensuring full compliance with tax legislation and business model principles.
• Provide tax support for intra-country and cross-border projects, including system implementations, business model changes, and divestitures/acquisitions.
• Act as a tax advisor to other organizational units within your area of responsibility.
• Support tax risk management by reviewing and assessing local tax risks and opportunities, involving Tax Managers and/or external advisors as appropriate.

Tax Compliance

• Ensure company tax guidelines and procedures are followed and proactively updated when required.
• Support the timely and tax-optimized preparation of financial statements, in close cooperation with Accounting Management, and ensure timely tax payments.
• Coordinate the preparation of tax returns, examine accounts, and calculate taxes owed in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and deadlines.
• Cooperate with tax advisors to optimize tax positions and tax burden.
• Act, when required, as a first point of contact for tax authorities.
• Participate in major business decisions (acquisitions, divestitures, contracts, initiatives) by reviewing and assessing tax implications.
• Ensure proper auditing, controlling, and reporting of tax activities.
• Carry out tax compliance governance covering direct tax, indirect tax, business model compliance, and tax forecasting.

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• Participate in regular direct and indirect tax reviews during the preparation of external tax reporting packages.
• Support fiscal year-end CIT reporting, including the review of Corporate Income Tax and Deferred Tax provision calculations.
• Develop a strong understanding of tax policies and procedures, ultimately taking ownership and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of professional experience in national and international tax matters (with a strong focus on Africa), ideally within a multinational company.
• Degree (or equivalent) in Business Administration, Economics, or a related field, with a focus on Tax.
• Strong expertise in corporate income tax calculations within multinational groups.
• Solid knowledge of International Tax and IFRS Accounting, including taxation and accounting for permanent establishments.
• Experience with consolidation systems and tax reporting tools is a plus.
• Strong hands-on experience in tax compliance activities (CIT, VAT returns, reporting), including audit and transfer pricing audit resolution.
• Proficiency in corporate tax software; SAP knowledge is preferred.
• Fluent in English.
• Ability to implement global and local tax guidelines, policies, and processes, and to define local tax optimization measures, with exposure to:

·         Income Tax

·         Indirect Taxes

·         International Tax

·         Transfer Pricing

·         Employer Taxes

Who is Siemens Energy? 

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet the growing energy demand across 90+ countries while ensuring our climate is protected. With more than 92,000 dedicated employees, we not only generate electricity for over 16% of the global community, but we’re also using our technology to help protect people and the environment. 

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation. 

Rewards  

·         Working with a global team 

·         Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects

·         Possibility to take over further tasks within the company 

·         Supportive work culture 

·         Medical benefits 

·         Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform

·         Open feedback culture 

·         Mentorship 

·         Coaching   

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fuelled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character
– no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.