Lead Corporate Income Tax Analyst

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Role Summary:
The Global Operations Tax Team is a component of the Global Operations Finance Europe organisation. The Team is in charge to create CIT reports & returns, according to 31 Countries’ accounting principles for GE’s legal entities.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Be a stakeholder of the migration of the Income Tax process from Corporate Tax / Business to Global Ops Finance Support migration of Income Tax preparation process from Corporate Tax / Business to Global Ops Finance together with the R2R team – the CIT Expert will support to ensure the Tax Manager in migration plan and catching plan meet GE Income tax process
  
• Prepare draft income tax provisions and draft income tax returns across a European country or group of countries, based on the predefined and documented part of the process owned by Global Operations Tax
  
• Ensure correctness of the income tax calculations / returns by identifying potential errors, proposing and recording corrections for portion of the Income Tax process owned by Global Operations Tax
  Identify opportunities and drive projects to improve Income Tax processes including partnering with R2R to implement changes to the upstream accounting processes or improve training to simplify and streamline the downstream Income Tax processes.
  
• Support the country Income Tax team in cases of Income Tax audits
  
• Prepare the monthly /quarterly ASC 740 process, including use of tax provisioning tools, preparation and review of quarterly ETR’s and assist Corporate Tax Teams, Business Tax Teams and Global Tax Controller with quarterly reporting requirements such as balance sheet analysis, NOL C/F balances, Fin 48, audit tracker etc.
  
• Prepare annual return to accrual analysis. Examine and evaluate deferred tax and current tax payable balances in accordance with GE GAP and GE MAP. Review and analyze tax reserves.
  

Qualifications/Requirements:

The Global Operations Tax Team is a component of the Global Operations Finance Europe organisation. The Team is in charge to create CIT reports & returns, according to 31 Countries’ accounting principles for GE’s legal entities.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
  
• Written and verbal fluency in English
  
• Some income tax experience in major accounting firm or large multinational supporting at least 1 European country
  
• Strong expertise in current and deferred income tax accounting processes and income tax compliance within Europe
  
• Excellent communication – proven ability to develop strong professional relationship with auditors, corporate tax, corporate VAT and accounting teams
  
• Strong analytical skills & ability to discuss technical issues with local/regional business controllers, country Stat & Tax leader, local Corporate Tax Leaders and KPMG/auditors where necessary,
  
• Comfortable delivering against quantitative and qualitative performance metrics
  

Desired Characteristics:

• Big 4 experience
  
• Local tax qualification
  
• Additional foreign European language skills
  
• Ability to manage multiple priorities/projects
  

Locations: Hungary ; Budapest

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