Senior Business Analyst (Indirect Taxes, WHT)

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Your responsibilities would include:

Supporting Process Owner in proactively managing respective process and design topics, including but not limited to:

• supporting Process Owner in proactively managing respective process and design topics
• identifying and analysing user requirements within (VAT, WHT) area, including relevant end-to-end transactional, cross-stream processes
• ensuring alignment of process design with global standards, legal/tax frameworks, and strategic objectives
• providing expert knowledge of the subject area
• being responsible for the successful closing of gaps between “as-is” and “to-be” situation
• participating in governance boards or design meetings to represent process-related topics
• identifying business process improvements and changes and communicating them to the product team
• acting as a change agent by promoting process adoption and standardization across OpCos
• validating the process designs, contributing broader tax topics design and supporting Product Experts on platform design
• ensuring process changes are modelled/updated in HEPM
• maintaining process documentation and ensuring alignment with evolving business and legal requirements
• cross-functionally aligning and collaborating with Product Experts to ensure the platform supports the intended process
• working in close collaboration with product team and acting as a liaison between business users and technical teams
• supporting standing organisation and deployment activities.

Being a point of contact towards OpCos, including but not limited to:

• supporting the OpCo on their change management journey and making the change stick
• ensuring OpCos remain compliant with standard processes (PDDs), Legal/Tax governance requirements, and Data Management Standards
• working with OpCos to foster active participation and ownership of the new solution (processes & tools) and ensuring a proper and effective knowledge transfer (e.g. documentation, training, etc.)
• supporting developing and implementing standard operating procedures
• developing, implementing and safeguarding control environment, in line with the HEINEKEN Tax Control Framework
• translating business needs into process flows and documentation
• supporting communication and alignment between global and local stakeholders during deployments
• assessing impact of issues on process compliance and operational flow
• facilitating feedback loops with OpCos to capture improvement ideas and pain points
• coordinating and supporting on global SIT, supporting Deployment team on End-to-End testing (SIT and UAT) and ensuring that process-related controls are tested and validated during SIT/UAT.

You are a good candidate if you have:

• strong understanding of how SAP and tax platforms support end-to-end tax processes
• 5+ years of experience in end-to-end transactional, cross-stream tax processes and process design with a strong understanding of (tax type) and with experience in compliance roles, with a particular focus on Withholding Tax (WHT) and indirect taxes
• ability to assess business impact and urgency of incidents and requests
• strong analytical skills and stakeholder management, with the ability to explain processes clearly and build collaborative relationships
• effective communication skills, presentation and time management skills
• experience with translating business needs and queries into technical system language
• backgroundwith issue analysis, system testing and training delivery
• hands-on experience in facilitating workshops and gathering process requirements
• excellent English skills.

You’re a perfect candidate if you also have:

• experience working at HEINEKEN, with an understanding of tax-relevant processes
• proficiency in process modelling tools (e.g., ARIS, Signavio, HEPM) and process mining tools (Celonis)
• track record of collaborating across different streams, ensuring alignment and end-to-end process effectiveness.

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