Job Description :Job Title: Tax Subject Matter Expert

Contract: Permanent

Location: Budapest

About us

With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.

Join us to create a career worth celebrating.

About the role

Diageo’s Global Tax model aligns core roles in direct tax, indirect tax, and tax business partnering.

Global Tax includes subject matter experts, business partners, and reporting and compliance teams. Global Tax has developed Tax Reporting and Compliance Centres of Excellence in Budapest, Bogota, Bangalore, and Manila. These centres support reporting, as well as technology and governance.

The North American Tax team is comprised of US tax and Canadian tax experts who oversee all areas of US & Canada (“NAM”) federal, state, and international income taxes, as well as key indirect taxes,

The purpose of this role is to ensure that the markets’ indirect tax processes are carried out accurately, efficiently (utilising automation), and on time, in full compliance with internal control procedures and legislative requirements.

The role is key in supporting the tax team in providing tax technical advice, and support to the Business Units and Global Functions on tax queries and projects.

Role Responsibilities

• Managing routine tax and other tax related enquiries and tax projects for the market in cooperation with tax manager. Acting as back -up for the tax manager upon request.

• Identifying and driving continuous process improvement in cooperation with the tax manager through establishing a LEAN approach to drive effectiveness and efficiency - supporting process improvements and rollout of standardised processes and automation re in scope markets.

• Supporting the new controls and KPI report implementation (Tax calendar review), monitoring the implemented KPI-s, supporting investigation of the root-cause or errors and working with end-to-end processes to improve KPIs.

• Providing training and any other kinds of technical support to the Tax teams and to other departments.

• Regularly informing the Team Leader on daily issues. Responsible for flagging risks and tax saving opportunities

• Reviewing balance sheet reconciliations and ensuring these are done on time and in an internal and external control compliant way..

• Actively managing and coordinating tax related document retention for your markets.

What you'll bring

• Practical experience of tax procedures including governance, controls, compliance and related accounting and documentation.

• In depth knowledge of tax legislation

• Knowledge of SAP

• Working knowledge of indirect taxes, particularly excise and customs duties

• Ability to work through others or exercise influence to deliver performance improvement.

• Good English language and communication skills

• Generates and sustains great working relationships and networks across the organisation.

• Strong stakeholder management skills

• Flexibility for adapting to change, often at short notice, with positive attitude.

• Strong risk management skills, ability to follow-up/flag potential issues

• Commercially astute, analytically strong strategic problem solver with the ability to constructively challenge business units in relation to solid compliance.

• Courage to maintain focus and integrity in tough situations.

• Proactive and a self-starter comfortable operating independently

Flexible Working Statement

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity statement

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

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Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Budapest

Additional Locations :Job Posting Start Date:

2025-12-18