Responsibilities:
- TP: core position to review and report TP positions of all China legal entities. Coordinate 10+ TPDs’ preparation, review, comment and confirms. Monitor and identify the necessities of TP adjustments within the group.
- Compliance: Mainly responsible for the preparation and filings of one core company’s tax returns, ensuring accuracy and timeliness;
- Reporting: Prepare one core legal entity’s tax provisions, TP and tax related disclosures for financial statements. Review sone of the remote sites’ reporting. Ensure accurate and timely reporting of tax-related matters;
- Risk Management: Identify and mitigate tax risks of remote sites through tax health checks, and follow up the corrections.
- Audit defense: Anticipate audits and handle the inquiries from tax authorities, and to maintain good relationship with them;
- Advisory: Provide tax advice to senior management or business teams on tax implications of business decisions and transactions;
- Tax Planning and Strategy: Contribute and implement tax strategies to minimize tax liabilities and ensure compliance with tax laws;
- Training: Initiate the tax compliance trainings for business and functional stakeholders;
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Anticipate projects, work closely with other departments, such as finance, legal, and operations, to ensure alignment on tax-related matters;
- Leadership: no direct reporting sub-boardings, but to educate and support junior staff in the tax team when applicable.

Requirements:
- 10+ years working experience
- Tax experience within Big 4 firms and/or with multi-national company and/or tax bureau experience are pluses.
- Accounting or taxation degree ( CTA, CPA, ACCA etc) is highly preferred
- Rich experience and solid knowledge on CIT, VAT, WHT, IIT, and other taxes
- Good at PE issues, M&A related tax matters, cross-board payments will be highly preferred
- Sound knowledge of local and international tax and transfer pricing regulations
- Strong experience at dealing with tax and fiscal authorities, excellent negotiations skills
- Good collaboration with external advisors were necessary
- Comfortable in working in cross cultural environment, multi-disciplinary teams
- Openness to share experience and expertise within tax team of Evonik Greater China
- Good written (presentation written skills) and spoken communication in both Mandarin and English
- Proficient in data analysis and presentation, with great interest and diligent to learn advanced IT technology to better serve day-to-day tax work.
- Knowledge of Office 365 apps is mandatory, experience in SAP is preferred
- Outstanding interpersonal and influence skills when deal with external authorities, customers, professionals.
- Stakeholder (including internal and external contacts) oriented.
- Strong problem solving skills and analytical skills required.
- Strong skills to accurately and timely catch the key points.
- Innovative thinking is required for developing constructive tax advice to business and service functions.