Tax Analyst

Scope of role covers preparing VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental tax and connected returns. This requires interaction with the Tax Senior, a number of functions including both markets and central functions with a special focus on financial controlling teams and Source to Pay and Sell to Cash teams.

About you

What you will be responsible for:

• Preparing VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental taxes and connected supplementary returns in accordance with global standard process and controls, utilising automation tools where applicable
• Working closely with tax seniors to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes
• Supporting routine VAT, customs & excise duty, environmental taxes and other tax related audit enquiries and projects for your markets under the supervisory of the Tax Lead (Team leader).
• Working closely with Tax Senior to ensure compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes
• Preparing balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring these are done on time and in an internal and external control compliant way.
• Actively handling tax document retention for your markets.
• Supplying to the continuous improvement- through establishing a LEAN approach to drive effectiveness and efficiency- of the tax compliance processes
• Embedding and operating the new controls and KPI reports, supervising the implanted KPI-s, investigating root-cause or errors and working with end-to-end processes to improve KPIs
• Ensure Tax Calendar is supervised and filled-in in a timely and quality manner
• Promptly responding to market queries in respect of markets in their responsibility and supporting direct tax leaders, business partners, SME-s in non-routine questions, projects, and during tax audits in their competency.

What you'll bring

• Qualified graduate economist with at least 1 year post qualification finance experience (internship counts as well)
• Experience at an operational level in tax, controls and risk management is an advantage
• Experience in working with SAP is an advantage
• Strong analytical and questioning skills
• Good numerical skills and confident excel usage
• Able to work with tight deadlines
• Attention to details and overview of the business: able to operate at the detailed level when necessary but always focuses on the big picture.
• Self-motivated and well organised approach to work

Flexible Working Statement

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Budapest

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2026-09-25