Direct Tax Senior

Job Description :

Job Title : Direct Tax Senior

Contract: permanent

Location: Budapest

About the Function

This role sits in the Direct Tax Reporting and Compliance team, focusing on RoW entities. It is critical in delivering the group tax external reporting requirements including our obligations under SOX. 

This role is also focusing on ensuring that European and African markets’ direct tax processes (including Corporate income tax, suffered withholding tax and other supplementary returns) are undertaken accurately, efficiently (utilising automation and outsourcing where applicable) and on time and the surrounding internal control procedures, legislative requirements are strictly adhered to.

The role sits in the Global Tax Team and works closely with the Group Controllers department and market finance team.

About the role

The scope for this role includes 2 major parts:

• Direct tax reporting:

• including reporting and reconciliation of return to group report differences, maintaining and managing deferred tax schedules and reconciliation, filling OTP tax provision and deferred tax schedules for non-complex Diageo entities. (OTP- Diageo’s tax reporting system) Additional to the annual reporting, tasks include the Prior Year Adjustment (PYA) and P09 reporting processes for non-complex or medium-complex RoW reporting entities.

• Direct tax compliance:

• activities such as corporate tax returns, GL reconciliation and supporting of the local tax manager based on the global agreement.

To perform quality reporting of the entities in scope for this role, both the external and internal reporting will need to be monitored by this role. It will be required to interpret the impact of the changes in the business, taxation and reporting environment to tax reporting.

There is a wide scope for exposure to key stakeholders within the Finance function. This role will need to effectively build up and manage relationship with GBO FC teams, with the compliance teams and local tax teams.

Experience / skills required

• Diploma on finance or accounting, 2-5 years of finance experience
• Interest and motivation to develop strong technical accounting skills with an excellent understanding of IFRS
• Good communication and influencing skills that facilitate effective networking and relationship building with senior stakeholders
• Ability to work to deadlines and under pressure
• Good judgement
• Imaginative thinker of capable of devising solutions to complex issues
• 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.  

Diversity statement

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Budapest

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-11-04