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Job Description:
At 3M, we apply science in collaborative ways to improve lives daily as our employees connect with customers all around the world.
Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World
Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies, and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with 93,000 other curious, creative 3Mers.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Analyze low to medium level discrepancies between SAP and OneSource (OTD) tax calculation relative to various data elements (i.e., Ship to, tax authority, UNSPSC, customer exemption certificate, general ledger accounts, etc.) per validation against source documents (i.e., invoices, proof of delivery, etc).
- Analyze data for appropriate tax technical treatment, timely and accurate reporting.
- Prepare data analytics for reporting to Global Indirect Tax organization, interdependent processes and other relevant decision-makers when requested with guidance from Specialist or Supervisor.
- Prepare VAT account reconciliation (eRecon/Blackline) for low to medium risk tax returns.
- Provide subject matter expertise on assigned tax returns, collaboration with multiple teams, and/or lead team in tax compliance, governance or ad hoc/special projects.
- Prepare and file VAT returns & ancillary reports with low to medium complexity rating.
- Process payment of tax due/monitoring of refund collection.
- Collaborate with teams and various work groups (IT Tax, RTR, STP, MDM, LEX, HTR) to resolve Tier 1 level issues in coming up with permanent fixes to resolve the root cause of the errors encountered, which can be in the form of ITSM ticket, change request (CR) or WRICEF (Workflow, Report, Interface, Enhancement or Form) in SAP and/or BI/BW.
- Achieve KRA targets with Customer First and an operational excellence mindset.
- Adhere to statutory (tax) regulations, 3M Global Financial Standards (GFS), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and other relevant regulations through a controls mindset.
- Ensure compliance with statutory (tax) regulations, 3M Global Financial Standards (GFS), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and other relevant regulations through a controls mindset.
- Participate/lead projects related to 3M’s Business Transformation priorities (i.e., Polaris SAP deployment, Robotics & Process Automation (RPA), process standardization and various Lean Six Sigma (LSS) initiatives).
- Participate in ad-hoc activities (i.e., internal/external audit, tax audit, etc.) as needed. Take ownership and initiative of assigned tasks.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor level university college degree or higher in Tax or accounting preferred. Applicable professional certification preferred (CPA). In addition, a minimum of 0-1 year relevant working experience is normally required.
Skills:
- Basic knowledge of theories/concepts and practices of Indirect Tax, particularly VAT/GST.
- Develop knowledge of tax related master data including material master, vendor master, and financial master data.
- Develop knowledge of assigned area of responsibility and 3M/multi-national company (MNC) structure, organization, and business.
- Develop knowledge of ALM QC testing application and 3M testing procedures.
- Basic knowledge in SAP, Business Intelligence (BI)/ Business Warehouse (BW) and other connected applications [OneSource (Sabrix), Ariba, LCR Dixon, etc.] is an advantage.
- Knowledge in Microsoft Office, Alteryx and other data analytics and collaboration tools.
- Ability to communicate in written and spoken English.
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Please note: your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by: 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.