Tax Advisory & Compliance Senior Specialist

Vodafone

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Tax Accounting

• Controlling balance sheet and profit loss table to give guidance to the accounting teams for being fully compliant with the local tax regulations.
• Controlling preparing statements for accounts of non-deductible expenses, deductible accounts, transfer pricing rules on transactions and balance sheets for providing the detailed calculations and information to accounting teams.
• Understand how relevant international/local standards/rules apply to tax accounting.
• Ensure the accuracy of tax accounting.
• Calculate deferred tax and ETR and being in line with the group tax.
• Calculate tax provision based on status of investigations.

Tax Declaration and Reporting

• Preparing accounts for advance tax return and corporation tax declarations – includes quarterly advance tax declarations- prepare and calculate advanced and corporate income tax returns.
• Evaluate and improve processes to deliver accurate and timely tax returns.
• Preparing the monthly deferred tax and submissions.
• Communicate details of and issues related to tax filings/reports/forecasts to senior management.
• Check actual vs. budget variances and report the reasons behind any variances on a monthly basis.

Keeping abreast of legislation

• Tax legislation research and keeping abreast of changes.
• Replying the people’s questions from other departments about tax legislation.
• Controlling the overseas invoices in terms of WHT and VAT, prepares and submits the required forms to the tax authorities.
• Follow the changes in tax legislation and ensure compliance.
• Demanding letter ruling for hesitant cases and filtering cases.
• Deliver reports to meet statutory and business requirements.
• Calculate tax provision based on status of investigations.
• Perform tax optimization activities by interpreting relevant tax laws and regulations to propose value added solutions.
• Perform tax planning, especially for long term plans and forecasts of VF Turkey together with FP&A team.
• Analyse and communicate tax implications of business plans.
• Identify and evaluate complex tax issues, communicate recommendations and risks to key stakeholders.
• Support business units about all tax related issues.
• Manage case management processes together with Legal, where necessary.
• Analysing major contracts for tax responsibility (stamp tax etc.).

Establishing relation with the Fiscal Administration

• Correspondence (tax ruling, announcement, notification) with public authorities (Information Technology and Communication Institution, Turkish Treasury, Ministry of Communication etc.).
• Build and develop relations with tax authorities and public bodies, and represent Vodafone for issues regarding tax obligations.
• Preparation of official documents and information, which are demanded by the authorities for audit or other reasons, are supplied with organization.
• Supports the tax manager for managing tax audits and guiding the related teams about tax audit process.
• Manage relations with government authorities regarding incentives - if any.
• Manage relations with VF Group Tax Management, especially regarding transfer pricing and tax-planning activities, effectively working on group tax reporting.

Establishing relation with the External Audit Firm

• Monitoring Tax Audit Team to take tax certification service.
• Managing tax issues with Tax Audit Team and our Group Companies.
• Demanding letter ruling for hesitant cases and filtering cases.
• Closed relations with Group Tax Team via managing the.