Position

As Transfer Pricing Manager you are part of the Inter IKEA Group tax team, a small but highly dedicated team of tax professionals. In Delft, the tax team consists of five professionals with a large tax team located in different locations worldwide throughout the Inter IKEA Group with a country focus. The Tax Team has a strong focus on protecting the IKEA brand, by making sure IKEA’s tax obligations are properly addressed.

You are proactively advising the core businesses of the group on transfer pricing and to a lesser extent other direct tax matters, supporting with tax strategies whilst maintaining the group’s tax control framework. You will be working in an international environment with a multi-dimensional view considering commercial, people, financial and operational perspectives. More specifically the tasks and responsibilities include:

• Advise business partners on a range of transfer pricing and direct tax matters;
• Define the TP setup, global TP policy and manage adherence thereto;
• Oversee and develop transfer pricing reports for over the various group companies and manager TP documentation (drafting the local files is outsourced to an external service provider);
• Coordinate solid transfer pricing benchmarks made by external service providers;
• Provide support on transfer pricing and direct tax audits and investigations;
• Provide transfer pricing and direct tax support on cross-functional projects (e.g. corporate reorganisations);
• Contribute to the design, implementation and maintenance of Inter IKEA Group’s global tax function and tax strategy;
• Develop guidance as part of Inter IKEA Group’s tax control framework;
• Provide support on tax reporting, tax provisions and effective tax rate;
• Identify risks and opportunities of changes in tax legislation and suggest actions;

Candidate

You are a down-to-earth team player who values togetherness, simplicity and common sense. You work independently with the ability to prioritize and show initiative. You are service minded and enjoy supporting your colleagues across the Inter IKEA Group on a daily basis. You build trustful relationships with all stakeholders relevant for tax and work collaboratively across organizational and geographical boundaries.

What’s more, we believe that you should have the following knowledge, capabilities and motivation:

• Master degree in Tax Law or Tax Economics
• At least 6 years of experience in a comparable in-house function and/or with a tax consultancy company
• Solid knowledge of Transfer Pricing and international corporate income tax (but also a willingness to broaden your perspective to other taxes).
• Ability to translate complicated rules in practical solutions (pragmatic) and explain them to the business in an understandable way.
• Interested in tax technology and/or data analytics (experience in this area would be a plus)
• Excellent command of English (spoken and written)

This role is full-time (40 hours per week) and based in Delft. This role sits in the Group Finance & Reporting team and reports to the Tax Director.

Are you interested in this exciting in-house TP position and you want to learn more about the position please contact Rogier Ploeger.

Contact:

Rogier Ploeger

+31 (0)6 18841557

rogier.ploeger@theresource.nl