Senior Tax Manager

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior Tax Manager EUCAN to join the Global Tax team. This role is responsible for overseeing tax matters across a portfolio of European countries, including Eastern Europe. The position plays a critical role in ensuring tax compliance, managing tax risks, supporting audits, and providing proactive tax advisory to business stakeholders.

The successful candidate will serve as a key interface between global tax leadership, regional finance teams, and business functions
, ensuring alignment between local requirements and global strategies while driving simplification and efficiency.

• Establish and maintain network to business within the countries in scope,
  analyse tax implications for transactions and provide high quality tax support to business partners such as finance, legal, business development, supply chain, HR, country managers, etc.
• Ensure professional and transparent communication with tax authorities at all time
• Accountable for corporate income tax compliance and tax audit defence within the region including coordination of corporate income tax compliance work with the Company Business Solutions (TBS Tax Solutions)
  in Poland and the local tax service provider
• Proactively identify, manage and mitigate tax risks
• Actively lead tax audits in the countries in scope including an alignment on information and data requests and liaison with global tax functional leads on audit defence strategy
• Streamline and monitor procedure for indirect tax, withholding taxes (if any) and other taxes.
• Responsible for monitoring legislative changes in the region which will have a material impact on the business or alerting tax planning team on material changes in the business
• Proactively evaluate tax risks and discuss mitigating actions
• Monitor and coordinate transfer pricing adjustments / documentation within the countries in scope in cooperation with Transfer Pricing team
• Review contracts and business initiatives from a tax perspective

• Ability to analyse complex matters and to present options for decision making
• Ability to communicate effectively, and influence without authority across finance in the countries in remit, the business and external stakeholders
• Ability to make well founded decisions with respect to tax compliance, tax audit and tax litigation in the countries in scope as well as to manage external providers
• Engagement across a wide variety of stakeholders in Tax, Finance, GBS, the business, ISIT and external consulting firms
• Find innovate ways to capture information on materials business transactions for future tax audits and find innovate ways to reduce complexity and improve processes and communication

Required:

• University Degree in accounting/finance/law, master's degree in Economics/Finance or Law Degree, preferably with a specialisation in Taxation
• Experience in a tax position, with a minimum of 5 years of experience within the Pharma industry or Big 4 industries
• Strong knowledge of tax laws and fiscal framework in the region (including in the Eastern Europe)
• Comprehensive understanding of accounting for income taxes
• Strong tax research and presentation skills
• English, German would be an advantage
• Good communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred:

• CPA and/or certification as tax specialist (in line with regional industry standards)
• Relevant experience within global life science industry
• Interest in Tax Technology
• Experience with the concept of Shared Services
• Public accounting experience
• Fluent in one Eastern European language

* As the role is based in Switzerland, we can only consider candidates with an EU passport or valid Swiss work authorisation.

If you are interested in this position contact me as soon as possible! Send your CV over our home page to Fabiola Miranda or per mail directly to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.