Required Profile & Skills

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of local GAAP, tax legislation, and statutory reporting
• Solid understanding of IFRS interfaces with local accounting
• Experience with SAP FI/CO or similar ERP systems
• Strong understanding of internal controls and compliance requirements

Professional Skills

• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Clear communicator with internal and external stakeholders
• Leadership and people‑management capabilities

Experience

• Several years of experience in accounting, taxation, or audit, preferably in an industrial or multinational environment
• Proven experience managing local statutory closing and tax compliance
• Prior experience leading or coordinating finance teams

Role Impact

This role is critical to:

• Ensuring full legal and tax compliance at local level
• Delivering high‑quality financial data to Group Consolidation and Finance Director
• Minimising tax, compliance, and regulatory risks
• Supporting sound financial decision‑making and sustainable business performance at both local and Group level

Role Purpose

The Head of Accounting & Taxation is responsible for ensuring full compliance with local accounting, tax, and statutory requirements while delivering accurate, timely, and reliable financial information to support both local management and Group consolidation.
The role owns local statutory accounting, tax compliance, and local financial governance, acting as the primary finance counterpart for local authorities, auditors, banks, and stakeholders, while ensuring seamless integration with Group Finance and Consolidation.

Job responsibilities:

1. Statutory Accounting & Local Closing:

• Own and execute the local monthly closing process, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timely reporting to Group Consolidation.
• Coordinate the local annual closing and preparation of statutory financial statements.
• Maintain accurate accounting records, including fixed assets, depreciation, provisions, inventories, and stock counts, and ensure proper reconciliation.
• Ensure accounting entries correctly reflect business transactions and local legal requirements.

2. Tax Compliance & Tax Risk Management

• Ensure full compliance with local tax regulations, including timely preparation and submission of all tax returns.
• Act as primary contact with tax authorities, responding to queries, audits, and inspections.
• Prepare and maintain tax provisions, tax schedules, deferred tax calculations, and tax‑sensitive GL accounts.
• Monitor tax law changes and advise management on impacts, risks, and opportunities for tax optimisation.
• Support development of policies and procedures to minimise global and local tax risks.

3. Audits, Authorities & External Stakeholders

• Coordinate local internal, external, and tax audits, ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.
• Act as the main finance interface with local auditors, tax authorities, and regulators.
• Maintain day‑to‑day relationship with local banks, supporting financing activities and contract negotiations in coordination with Group Finance.

4. Management Reporting & Performance Support

• Prepare and analyse local management reports and KPIs, ensuring data quality, consistency, and comparability across BA Glass sites.
• Consolidate and critically review financial and operational information received from different departments to support decision‑making.
• Support budget preparation, forecasting, and variance analysis in line with Group guidelines.
• Provide ad‑hoc financial analyses, special reports, and business insights to local and Group management.
• Ensure proper implementation of Group finance policies, procedures, and internal controls at local level.

5. Investments & Asset Management

• Support investment analysis and CAPEX projects, providing financial assessment and profitability analysis.
• Maintain and control fixed asset registers, monitoring movements, depreciation trends, and asset integrity.

Key Interfaces

• Group Finance Director, Consolidation, Treasury, and Tax teams
• Regional Finance Manager
• Local Management and Operational Departments
• External Auditors, Tax Authorities, and Regulators
• Local Banks and Financial Institutions