Global Senior Manager Indirect Tax

About COTY

Coty’s Global Tax Team plays a strategic and operational role in enabling business growth and financial efficiency whilst ensuring global tax compliance. The team works closely with local market teams to ensure compliance and consistency in our ways of working. We act as trusted advisors, providing expert input on commercial transactions and supporting senior management. Our input is requested and considered for strategic decision making. The tax team operates multi countries – United States, Netherlands, Singapore and in Poland. Our dynamic international team brings deep expertise and proactive collaboration across the organization.

In this role, your activities range from strategic tax advisory and business partnering to operational excellence, compliance and risk management and continuous improvement. Your contributions will also include advancing the use of technology and automation. You will be an integral part of the tax team.

Your Main Focus

Reporting to the Tax Director, this role is ideal for an experienced tax professional
(7+ years) with global experience, ready to lead indirect tax in a fast-paced, transformative environment. You’ll shape Coty’s indirect tax strategy across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, with a focus on VAT/GST and customs.

Strategic Advisory & Business Partnering

• Lead global indirect tax advisory, acting as first point of contact for VAT/GST matters.
• Advice on tax implications following restructuring, M&A, disposals as well as commercial transactions.
• Develop and translate complex tax concepts into actionable business insights in line with business objectives.
• Help to implement new tax legislation on a continuous basis.
• Collaborate with external advisors for complex tax issues.
• Provide high-quality, practical advice on complex VAT issues, including
  cross-border transactions and triangulation.

Operational Excellence

• Support AP and Intercompany teams on tax coding and TPM purchases.
• Review customer contracts.
• Provide Incoterms for new shipping lanes.
• Provide VAT input on TP invoicing.
• Assist in various projects.
• Lead weekly invoice review calls.

Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure compliance with VAT, GST, Sales tax, customs and other indirect taxes across all relevant jurisdictions.
• Monitor legislative changes and ass their impact on the business.
• Assist local markets with VAT queries and audits.
• Draft VAT memos for tax authorities.
• Develop and maintain a robust indirect tax control framework.
• Oversee global indirect tax compliance processes.
• Manage external tax audits and disputes.

Systems & Process Optimization

• Drive automation and digitalization of indirect tax processes, including but not limited to supporting SAP master data setup and testing for tax flows.
• Identify cash-flow efficiencies and tax-saving opportunities.
• Monitor global VAT/GST legislation and communicate changes.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Liaise with vendors/customers to align tax treatments applied on invoicing.
• Collaborate with Group Tax on financing, audits, and reporting.
• Collaborate with Finance, Supply Chain, Customs, IT, and Group Tax, and others as required.
• Liaise with tax authorities and external advisors, together with the tax leadership team.

 YOU ARE A COTY FIT 

You thrive in complexity and bring structure to ambiguity with clarity and precision. Balancing a strategic mindset with a pragmatic approach, you connect goals to the day-to-day realities of Finance and tax teams. As an experienced Tax professional, you have a proven track record in indirect tax activities, use of technologies and demonstrate a compliance first mindset.

In addition, we are looking for candidates who:

Qualifications & Experience

• Certified 7+ years experienced Indirect Tax advisory professional in an international environment.
• Demonstrated experience in tax planning, controversy management, technology implementation and multi-jurisdictional tax compliance and audit.
• Dynamic individual looking to thrive in a fast paced, challenging environment with significant transformation activity.  Maintains a problem-solving mindset, an eye for detail and a high-quality analysis. Has dynamic and proactive people skills and a demonstrated ability to manage major corporate projects and tax audits in various geographies.
• Excellent communicator with a strong team-player attitude, able to connect at multiple levels within the organization. Possesses ability to initiate and interact frequently with Global Director Indirect Tax, local and regional CFOs and other departments, and communicate effectively with a wide diversity of other stakeholders both internally as externally (i.e., advisors and tax authorities).
• Fluency in English – written and verbal - is a must.
• Self-starter with ability to deliver End-to-End with perseverance.  Hands-on tax compliance systems and ERP platforms are important, preferably with SAP (S/4Hana, Ariba, etc).
• Demonstrated experience with Tax accounting processes, Tax technology and compliance will be a differentiating factor, but not a requirement.
• Willingness to occasionally travel.

OUR BENEFITS

• A salary that matches your knowledge and experience
• Opportunity to set customer marketing agenda for chosen brands in category
• Possibility of building a professional path in the dynamic growing company promoting culture of kindness
• Opportunity to work in international environment
• Attractive benefits package including private healthcare, benefits from our cafeteria program, travelcard reimbursement, discounts on company products, extra day of holidays for birthday and more
• Omni-Working: Hybrid flexible working model enabling employees to balance remote and office-based work and promote work / life balance

RECRUITMENT PROCESS  

5. A telephone/online introductory meeting
6. A first online/in-person interview
7. A second interview
8. You will receive a proposal with the terms of employment

ABOUT COTY 

Coty is one of the world’s largest beauty companies with an iconic portfolio of brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, skincare, and body care. At Coty, we celebrate the entire human kaleidoscope and cultivate a culture of fearless kindness. Therefore, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against any candidate or employee and strive to be an open, inclusive and diverse workplace where all employees can be their authentic self. Join us in making over the world of beauty! 

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