Stat & Tax Specialist

Job description / Role

Stat & Tax Specialist - Nigeria- Corporate

Role Summary:
In partnership with the Stat & CIT Leader, oversee the Statutory processes standards and financial compliance for the region, prioritizing results and seeking to drive organizational transformation, process improvement and automatization, for a long term and structured growth. The Job scope is flexible and may be modified based on the Corporate business Stat and Tax organization requirements.

Essential Responsibilities:
For the country(ies) under the role scope, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following activities:
- Prepare stat financials, gap to stat adjustments, stat to tax adjustments and in-scope corporate income tax returns as agreed with country tax leaders.
- Review, validate and establish the procedures to ensure proper application of Local GAAP regulations in the conversion of US GAAP accounting information.
- Identify opportunities to improve the statutory and CIT process through simplification, standardization and automation initiative.
- Manage the relationship with the external statutory auditors to drive efficient & effective audit processes (audit planning, debrief meeting, audit fees.
- Own and manage the metrics for measuring the efficiency of the stat & tax filings- including speed, quality and cost.
- In partnership with the Country Tax Leader, ensure efficient and timely tax payments for Legal Entities in scope based on country requirements.
- Support the Country and Regional Tax Leaders by efficient and timely compilation of information for tax audit requests to drive a positive assessment.
- Facilitate early CIT self-assessment through audit ready BLP readiness.
- Follow a risk based approach for entities in scope of self assessment.
- Own and manage implementations of global S2T initiatives for your country(ies)/ region including but not limited to: Strategic ERP implementations, Stat @ Source, HFM, OneSource, STIR, ATS etc.
- Assure Statutory and Tax process controllership

Requirements

Qualifications/Requirements:
- Strong experience & demonstrated experience in project management.
- Strong controllership analytical skills - able to link financial results to operational performance drives.
- Experience leading cross-functional projects, process improvement within operations / finance function, GE ops system / routines.
- Ability to prepare and deliver effective presentations.
- Customer Orientation - Ability to build good partnership with all stakeholders in the processes.
- Team Leadership.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Support a positive environment despite constant changes.
- Strategic, visionary and inclusive skills - Good ability to stay updated with market trends and external changes to incorporate knowledge in our internal processes.
- Good dealing with ambiguity and a non-structured environment.
- Must be willing to travel a minimum of 30% of the time.

Desired Characteristics:
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
- Ability to work independently.
- Strong problem solving skills.

About Us:
GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE people are global, diverse and dedicated, operating with the highest integrity and passion to fulfill GE's mission and deliver for our customers.

About the Company

GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company, dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and oil and gas, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 300,000 people worldwide.

GE's Oil & Gas business is a leader in the development and delivery of advanced product and service offerings for the global oil and gas industry. As a consequence of the rapid expansion of its technology base, GE's Oil & Gas is capable of addressing the largest and most complex engineering and application challenges entirely from its own worldwide resources. So whether it's the world's largest LNG compression trains, re-injection of high sulfur gas, enhancing the safety and productivity of the world's oil and gas pipelines, or equipment for the production of oil and gas from harsh environments, GE is leading the charge.