Senior Tax Specialist (Environmental Focus)

Are you detailed and meticulous that enjoys building your capabilities in a global organisation? Would you like to build your career brick by brick in LEGO as a Sr Specialist, Tax Operations & Compliance?

Bring all your amazing experience and knowledge in Corporate Income Tax and other direct taxes, in order to support the improvement and success in the Finance area of the Business Service Operations for the APAC region.

Core Responsibilities

• Secure execution of processes for planet tax (environmental tax, green fee and/or extended producer responsibility) return and other relevant statutory survey/statistics reporting.
• Support Global Strategic Tax & Customs team on tax audits through data preparation and collaboration where needed.
• Work closely with third party service providers related to planet tax.
• Collaborate with process and data specialists to drive the improvement and/or transition of planet tax related compliance processes.
• Support the Regional/Central Planet Tax Manager Specialist in implementation of planet tax related control and improvements on governance.

Do you have what it takes?

• Bachelor degree in finance or accounting with certification in accounting or tax profession would be preferred.
• 8+ years in Tax or General Accounting functions in MNC and global share service environment preferred, familiar with APAC countries regulations related to tax, accounting and other local rules.
• Utilising Business Intelligence to standardize and enhance reporting capabilities and speed, perform data analysis and drive problem solving. Able to recommend improvements to data structures to enhance reporting capabilities.
• Experience in global companies or those having global tax compliance requirements.
• Ability to collaborate globally, regionally and locally with internal stakeholders, global third-party service providers, and compliance bodies.
• Experience in global process transitions demonstrated through shared service center experience or involvement in projects or process improvements.

Nice to have:

• SAP and Microsoft office experience.
• Willingness to collaborate globally.
• Willingness to travel international (within APAC) when business needs.
• Intermediate level in Korean and Japanese language in both reading and speaking would be a plus to support tax requirements in Korea and Japan market.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Join the LEGO team today.