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Job Title: Global Mobility Tax Manager
Department: Global Rewards
Location: GBS Warsaw
Role: Permanent
Global Mobility Tax Manager
Job Summary:
This is a key role in strategizing global mobility tax compliance support on a global scale. The incumbent will draw on tax expertise to provide mentorship and meaningful recommendations for all aspects of talent mobility tax compliance, as well as effective and compliant solutions to any challenging cases. This position will provide critical support and advice to the Global Talent Mobility team and other stakeholders by acting as the primary contact on all cross border tax related questions and issues. The Global Mobility Tax Manager will also be responsible to manage the relationship with our external tax provider in order to achieve global consultative analysis and calculations in line with our policies and strategy while ensuring global tax compliance within our mobility programs
What you’ll do:
- Vendor Management: Manage day-to-day relationships with external tax provider to ensure efficient execution and positive employee experience. Includes overseeing and acting on escalations, exceptions, policy and process improvements.
- In-House Consultancy & Special Case Management: Serve as technical tax mobility expert, leveraging expertise in the mobility compliance space. Strive to simplify complex technical messages. Coordinate mobility due-diligence processes with internal partners (corporate tax, immigration, etc) and third party vendors (tax, social security), including tax impact assessment and compliance requirements analysis. When necessary, conduct fundamental country-specific risk analysis with a focus on Permanent Establishment and tax considerations in international locations. Support Payroll Managers and Business Partners with questions related to the hypothetical / actual tax from assignees. In coordination with business owners, liaise with legal counsel and tax advisors to provide nuanced interpretations and guidance in response to non-standard cases (i.e. remote work, split families, delayed assignment implementation, etc.
- Tax Policy Owner: Develop and maintain the process documentation proactively, including reviewing and updating the process as we see new changes. Create and review tax equalization and international assignment policies. Analyze multiple countries’ tax legislations and bilateral and multilateral agreements/treaties and tax conventions, assess market practices, and implement appropriate policies and services to mitigate and manage the organization’s tax exposure, tax risk, and recovery efforts. Implement necessary changes to the global mobility system, perform testing, initiate improvements
- Global Compensation Management: Oversee the GCM process globally. Coordinate efforts of the tax provider, global mobility payroll team and Local P&C to ensure smooth GCM reporting, variance analysis and accuracy of the GCM data
- Global Mobility System Tax Engine Oversight: Review APRO tax engine updates on a regular basis and bring to the Payroll Team attention any significant changes. Closely cooperate with system provider in case technical issues escalation related to hypo tax calculation. Perform hypo tax “health check” review during yearly updates (January – new tax year/March – ASR/PSIP)
- Global Mobility Knowledge Management: Mentor and coach the Global Mobility team and Local P&C staff on any global mobility tax matters. Support the Global Mobility Team members in consulting employees when necessary
The Skills you'll need:
- Master degree in Tax law or International Law (or equivalent). Swiss tax knowledge and practice a plus
- 5+ years of global mobility tax and project management experience required, ideally inhouse Global Mobility. Big Four Tax Consulting company experience a plus
- Business-level English proficiency. Other languages a plus
- Knowledge in expatriation management (incl. international assignment compensation and benefit structures)
- Stakeholder management
- Excellent communication skills
- Strategic and consultative mentality with advanced interpersonal and project management skills
- Motivated self-starter
- Passionate about customer
- Creative and innovative
- Experience with AssignmentPro a plus
Next steps:
Thank you very much for your interest in the role. You are welcome to apply.
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