Job Description :
Tax Accountant
About us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About you
We’re looking for an individual with a drive to be the best: enabling the assigned markets to deliver great results in Tax. You must have the ability to drive change for efficiency and the skills to work with multiple stakeholders.
Function
- The Tax job family encompasses global roles accountable for the design and implementation of tax strategies, policies and the tax governance framework. It also includes the provision of tax support to Diageo’s business units, delivery of projects to create shareholder value, and proactive management and mitigation of key tax risks. With the rapid digitalisation of indirect tax administration, the Tax Compliance team is increasingly dealing with real-time tax audits and other data requests from various authorities by providing timely access to accurate data. In addition to the tax compliance responsibilities, the team is heavily involved in the delivery of the Global Tax mission and Performance Promise agenda.
- The APAC Tax Compliance team is led from Budapest by the Head of Global Tax Process and Governance.
- This role reports into the APAC Tax Compliance Manager. It also works very closely with the local Tax Managers and the Financial Controllers and liaises with other internal & external stakeholders.
What does this role look like for you?
The purpose of this role is to ensure that the market’s Tax Compliance processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently (utilising automation) and on time and the surrounding internal control procedures, legislative requirements are strictly adhered to.
- Ensuring that accounting for direct and indirect taxes including journal entry posting and balance sheet reconciliations are prepared according to the global standard process and
- Prepare quality reconciliations through deep understanding of the figures supported, reported
- Supporting routine tax-related enquiries and tax projects for assigned tasks. Act as back-up for delegated tasks when necessary.
- Supporting the APAC Tax Compliance SMEs and the market tax analysts.
- Ensuring compliance with market specific regulatory requirements and legislative changes working closely with Global and Local SMEs.
- Actively managing and coordinating tax-related document retention for assigned tasks.
- Taking responsibility for the day-to-day tasks required.
- Decision support for business partners through value-add analysis, thorough understanding of movements on accounts, the business reason behind those, and collection and presentation of Risk & Opportunities
- Ensuring smooth and accurate month-end closes
- Prepare and post accruals/adjustments/other required journals to ensure the month-end results show the clear and fair picture
- Ensuring that financial processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding internal control procedures are strictly adhered to in line with CARM processes
- Maximizing benefits of globalized system processes
- Actively managing and coordinating tax-related document retention for assigned tasks.
- Identifying and driving continuous process improvement to drive effectiveness and efficiency - supporting process improvements and rollout of standardised processes and automation on in-scope markets.
- Contributing ideas, energy, enthusiasm and support to the continuous improvement of the processes.
- Promptly responding to market queries in respect of markets in her/his responsibility and supporting APAC Compliance Manager, tax managers, SMEs in non-routine questions, global projects, and during tax audits in her/his competency.
- Continuously maintaining excellent personal and business relationship with the market and in-house stakeholders
- Proactively supporting internal projects to facilitate the ongoing transformation and improvement of Diageo’s Global Tax function (including providing relevant information, answering ad hoc requests and suggesting alternative ways of working)
What you need to bring to this role:
- University / College degree in finance / accounting / business / CPA
- At least 1 year working experience in a multinational corporate environment
- Focused experience in accounting / GL reconciliation / taxation experience is strongly preferred
- Experience with Shared services / FMCG process activities is an advantage
- Capable of working in a deadline driven environment
- Hard working personality, flexibility for adopting to change with positive attitude
- Fluent in English, able to communicate effectively to build strong relationships with operational staff and stakeholders
- SAP knowledge is an advantage
Working with us
Flexibility is key to success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you and we’ll work together so that you’re supported from day one.
We recognize and value performance, offering our people a highly competitive Rewards and Benefits package.
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.
Worker Type :
Regular
Primary Location:
Jakarta
Additional Locations :
Job Posting Start Date :
2026-03-18