Senior Manager, International Indirect Taxes

4 Months ago • 4-8 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Manager, International Indirect Taxes will support the Principal in managing Disney's international indirect tax affairs across EMEA. This includes compliance, advisory, VAT audit support, and engaging with tax legislation updates and the company's digitalisation strategy. The role requires strong business partnering skills, working with various business and finance heads to ensure compliance and optimal tax structuring. Experience in multiple sectors (TV/film production, licensing, broadcasting, streaming, retail, travel, theme parks) and cross-border transactions is crucial. Collaboration with an external managed services provider (MSP) is also a key component of this role. Responsibilities span compliance, audit support, managing tax legislation changes, and implementing e-invoicing/e-reporting solutions. Experience with ERP systems, Alteryx, and Excel is highly desirable.
Must have:
  • Qualified Chartered Tax Advisor or similar
  • Extensive indirect tax compliance & advisory experience
  • Experience with ERP systems (SAP), Alteryx, Excel
  • Cross-border transaction experience
  • Business partnering & stakeholder management skills
Good to have:
  • Experience with MSPs
  • US based multinational & media sector experience
  • Involvement in systems transformation projects
Perks:
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Private medical insurance & dental care
  • Free Park Entry
  • Disney Discounts
  • Excellent parental leave
  • Employee Resource Groups

Job Details

Job Summary:

About the Role

The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) is looking for a Senior Manager, International Indirect Taxes to join our EMEA Corporate Tax division.

You will support the Principal, International Indirect Taxes in supporting our businesses with their International Indirect Tax affairs to ensure compliance with indirect tax regulations where TWDC and its affiliates have reporting obligations.  The role will encompass indirect tax advisory, compliance, VAT audit support, tax legislation updates and TWDC’s technology and tax digitalisation strategy.   

This role will require the Senior Manager to act as the Indirect Tax liaison with several of our business and finance heads to ensure that ongoing and new business requirements are appropriately supported from both an advisory and VAT reporting perspective.   Disney’s International footprint encompass a number of diverse businesses which include but are not limited to TV and film production, licensing, broadcasting, Disney+ D2C streaming, retail, travel, cruise lines and theme parks. The successful candidate should have industry experience in several of these sectors in order to act as the VAT subject matter expert supporting the relevant businesses.   

Disney has operations or makes direct to consumer sales into multiple countries worldwide and so hands on experience of working in a Big 4 or Multinational tax team advising on cross border supplies of goods and services is critical.  Disney is also enhancing its relationship with an external managed services provider (MSP) and so experience of partnering with a MSP either from within a Big 4 environment or from a recipient of MSP services would be extremely advantageous.  

What You’ll Do

Business Partnering

  • Be an effective Business Partner and pro-actively partner with the regional business, finance heads, and Disney legal for agreed lines of business.  

  • Support the Principal, International Indirect Taxes and our businesses to fully understand all commercial initiatives, evaluating business models, effectively structuring and suggesting potential solutions or changes to supply and contractual flows to manage risks, costs and maximise opportunities  

  • Working with other members of Disney’s International finance and business teams considering the local country operations, reviewing commercial initiatives across the region and ensure the operations are structured appropriately and have the correct processes and controls from an indirect tax perspective  

Compliance

  • Working alongside the Principal, Indirect Taxes and the Director International External Reporting to manage and enhance our partnership with an external managed services provider into APAC and LATAM.

  • Working closely with other members of the VAT, tax, accounting and finance teams globally to ensure that Disney satisfies all its indirect tax compliance obligations.  

  • Leading certain indirect tax authority audits and internal management audits and supporting indirect tax audits globally, where applicable. 

  • Working across our tax, finance and business teams to identify and manage any DST reporting requirements. 

Tax Environment Changes

  • Pro-actively work with advisers, tax authorities and the business to identify current and potential local, EMEA and Global tax legislation changes, determining how most appropriately to manage these changes, then leading the implementation.  

  • Act as an indirect tax subject matter expert on e-invoicing or e-reporting solutions working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.  

  • Working closely with the Continuous Process Improvement team and IT on digitalisation of indirect compliance, identifying opportunities for automation, data analytics, out-sourcing to efficiently meet additional compliance requirements in the short, medium and long-term. Experience of Alteryx would be helpful.  

     

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • Qualified Chartered Tax Advisor or similar tax focused qualification  

  • Extensive, demonstrable experience in indirect tax compliance and advisory experience,  

  • Experience in ERP systems (particularly SAP), Alteryx and Excel is highly desirable as is involvement in systems transformations projects 

  • Experience of working in a senior role in a tax department of a large multinational company is desirable but this is not essential for the right candidate (US based multinational and media sector experience a plus) 

The Perks

  • 25 days annual leave.

  • Private medical insurance & dental care.

  • Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free.

  • Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing.

  • Excellent parental and guardian leave.

  • Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided the necessary accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive all benefits of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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