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Your Role: Accounting and Tax Assistant Manager

The Accounting & Tax assistant Manager for Elanco Taiwan will be responsible for general accounting, financial reporting, taxation, order to cash, controls and compliance. The role will include collaborating with the affiliate finance team, the regional/corporate accounting team, Shared Service Center, as well as personnel from consulting firms providing outsourced financial reporting and tax services. These responsibilities will be performed under leadership of Elanco Taiwan Head of Finance.

Your Responsibilities:

Focus of this role includes the following:

Accounting & General

• Provide local stewardship for accounting and tax processes based on Elanco policies and processes.

• Review or prepare necessary monthly closing entries by working closely with the business partners to determine what, if any, activities occurred during the month that require manual journal entries. Prepare or review account reconciliation.

• Work with the share service centre team (responsible for the transaction accounting for O2C, P2P, and R2R) and internal finance team (costing) to answer questions, elevate issues, etc.

• Execute all local legal entity transformation activities as directed by Corporate Tax team and by the third-party Tax Partner if any.

• Evolve into the local Super User (key user) for key accounting processes impacting financial reporting including but not limited to O2C, S2P and R2R.

• Act as key subject matter expert on Local GAAP policy/procedures interpretation, US GAAP, as well as internal/external income tax and VAT reporting.

• Fixed asset processing & management.

• Coordinate with 3rd party supplier for company registration and board meeting.

• Coordinate and implement ad-hoc accounting/finance related project based on needs, including global and local initiatives.

Controls

• Demonstrate a strong compliance oriented mindset & help to build a strong compliance culture.

• Awareness of all applicable financial/taxation standards, process documentation & training materials to ensure compliant execution of daily operations.

• Ensure ownership for all applicable financial reporting and operational controls as well as broader oversight for all controls that influence the financial statements.

• Engage with External/Internal Audit/Taxation authorities to ensure full ownership and excellence in all Group/Statutory/Internal/Taxation/Regulatory audits.

Tax

• Responsible for local tax compliance activities and management of associated of payments as coordinated with corporate tax and with third party tax providers, including but not limited to income tax return filing, tax related package review, transfer pricing related.

• Support the provision of information to third party providers to assist in the preparation and filing of withholding tax and customs reporting.

Order to Cash

• Coordinate with Shared Service Center and Pet Health Logistic Service Provider if issues in daily, weekly, and monthly tasks associated to sales order, sales returns, credit, and debit memo processing with Pet Health Logistic Service Provider and in e-invoice system.

• Coordinate with Shared Service Center, Pet Health Logistic Service Provider, Export Sales team for Export sales and resolve issues based on needs.

• Support credit limit related assessment and tasks.

What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):

• Bachelor’s Degree (or similar) in Finance or Accounting, or equivalent work experience

• Local GAAP and tax regulation knowledge.

• Proven analytical, problem solving, and communication skills

• Proven compliance orientation based on prior operational business roles

• Ability to work in local/regional/global team environment and communicate effectively with both internal business partners of all levels & disciplines as well as external stakeholders such as auditors and tax authorities

• Proficiency in verbal and written communication in both English and Chinese

• 4-6 years of progressive experience in finance/accounting related position. 2+ years of experience in big 4 accounting firm is a plus.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):

• Chartered accountant, CPA or equivalent preferred

• Accounting and tax experience in Multinational Companies

Additional Information:

• Knowledge of US GAAP and/or IFRS is a plus

• Experience in SAP system is a plus

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown underrecognized groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Elanco we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you think you might be a good fit for a role but don't necessarily meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or other roles!

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