Accounting and Tax Manager

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Role Type
Permanent
What you'll be doing:
As an Accounting and Tax Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring Avon’s statutory accounting and tax compliance activities in Poland are delivered accurately, on time, and in line with both local regulations and corporate requirements. Working closely with Finance leaders, auditors, tax advisors, and global stakeholders, you will oversee statutory reporting, tax filings, financial statement preparation, and regulatory compliance. Your expertise will help ensure the business operates with confidence, maintains robust financial controls, and continues to meet its legal and governance obligations while driving continuous process improvement. You will serve as the primary liaison between the company and public authorities, including tax, statistical (GUS), and regulatory bodies, leading interactions and representing the company during tax audits, inspections, and other formal proceedings.
Key responsibilities:
•Lead statutory and Tax requirements process for Core market – Poland
•Ensure accurate, complete and up-to date accounting records according to statutory and corporate requirement
•Perform and review monthly tax reports for statutory purposes (financial and tax reports, tax accruals, webforms, submissions)
•Keep control over Statutory vs IFRS adjustments, own the process
•Prepare and submit statutory financial statements, tax returns (not limited to VAT) and coordinate with external auditors for year-end audits. Monitor changes in regulations and implement necessary actions and required adjustments
•File annual (as per local regulations and frequency) statutory financial statements - end-to-end owner
•File all other statutory local filings as per local regulations and frequency – end-to-end owner
•Organize and lead annual statutory audit, manage tax audits and other local inspections
•Review balance sheet reconciliations
•Control owner for related activities (i.e. IFRS to statutory adjustments 942 and other applicable) – file samples to the Audit board, ineffective controls remediation, apply SOX matrix changes
•Ensure compliance with internal global and local tax and Accounting procedures as well as assigned SOX controls
•Monitoring of local respective law rules and timely implementation to Avon processes
•Maintain relationship with local statutory and tax services providers (i.e. EY or similar)
•Tax advisory for projects
•Cooperate with CoE teams, GBS service delivery, controllers, tax and internal control teams in order to improve processes, sharing knowledge and building positive relations
•Look for new ways of improving efficiency and quality of the processes within and outside the remit of the role
•Widen tax and accounting accounting knowledge by taking part in trainings, studying internal and external best practices
What we're looking for:
•5 year + experience in Chief accountant role or similar, preferably in the multinational company
•Experience in local statutory reporting and tax preparation and returns
•Diploma in Finance/Accounting
•Degree in Tax and Accounting, along with a professional accounting certification
•Strong knowledge of tax regulations, local accounting rules and IFRS
•Very good knowledge of accounting systems and tax reporting tools, experience in working with them
•Strong knowledge of IFRS standards
•Ability to be self organized and disciplined, work under pressure and with the strict deadlines
•Excellent English communication skills (written and spoken)
•Understanding of multi cultural work environment
•Leadership skills ensuring ability to develop efficient and motivated team
•Great learning agility
•Proactiveness, ability to maintain high quality performance in the changing environment
•Curiosity and willingness to constantly seek self improvement and improvement of the processes
What we offer:
We offer a comprehensive benefits package along with wellness resources and work-life balance support in line with your country practices and Avon purpose aiming to help you live a healthier life, protect you and your dear ones, and ensure you’re at your best.
At Avon, we believe beauty is for everyone and that it’s beautiful to be you. We celebrate our differences, champion self-expression and are committed to inclusion for all. We embrace diversity and individuality to build a culture that represents our communities and enables everyone to bring their best self to work. We also support reasonable adjustments both within our recruitment process and job design when required to empower you to work in a way that works for you.
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We inform that in accordance with the requirements of the on Whistleblower Protection Act of June 14, 2024 (government gazette of 2024, item 928), each Avon company in Poland has implemented a Procedure for Reporting Irregularities and Subsequent Actions.
The full text of the procedure for each company, containing information about reporting methods, is available here.