**Description**
- group arrangements, contracting issues, indirect tax issues, tax accounting and reporting or any other tax matters as well as tax strategies that reflect overall strategy and global initiatives.
**Main**
**Accountabilities**:
**1. Compliance with laws and regulations**
Provides tax expertise in the defined tax area to ensure compliance with local and international tax laws and regulations. Acts as internal tax advisor in complex tax matters, coordinates resolution of tax issues.
**2. Tax planning and risk management**
Identifies tax planning opportunities and risks of non-compliance, proposes measures to mitigate risk and obtains support from peers, Group Function Heads and Country/Region management in implementing the measures.
**3. Policies and process improvement**
Coordinates and ensures development and implementation of relevant standards, processes, policies and procedures to improve efficiency and effectiveness of corporate tax matters in own area of responsibility.
**4. Best practice and knowledge sharing**
Facilitates knowledge transfer, training activities and best practice sharing in the defined tax practice area.
**5. Tax accounting and reporting**
Oversees all tax accounting and reporting activities within the scope of own tax practice/area of responsibility. Ensures correct tax numbers and disclosures in the quarterly and annual reports and financial statements of the Hitachi Energy Group, including sign-off by the Group auditors.
**6. Tax authorities**
Liaises with Tax Authorities and similar in negotiations/dealings regionally/locally in tax policy matters within defined tax practice (including transfer pricing for goods and services, contracting business, mergers and acquisitions, intra-group arrangements, tax accounting and reporting, HR taxes, indirect taxes, financing and tax litigation/planning projects).
**7. Internal control**
Ensures that internal controls over financial reporting processes are designed and performed effectively and efficiently in the respective areas of responsibility.
**Background**:
- **Bachelor's in commerce, Financial Accounting.**:
- **6 **-8 Years of experience preferred**: