Accounting and Tax Assistant Manager

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Your Role: Accounting and Tax Assistant Manager

The Accounting & Tax assistant Manager for Elanco Taiwan will be responsible for general accounting, financial reporting, taxation, order to cash, controls and compliance.  The role will include collaborating with the affiliate finance team, the regional/corporate accounting team, Shared Service Center, as well as personnel from consulting firms providing outsourced financial reporting and tax services.

These responsibilities will be performed under leadership of Elanco Taiwan Head of Finance.

Your Responsibilities:

Focus of this role includes the following:

Accounting & General


* Provide local stewardship for accounting and tax processes based on Elanco policies and processes.


* Review or prepare necessary monthly closing entries by working closely with the business partners to determine what, if any, activities occurred during the month that require manual journal entries.

Prepare or review account reconciliation.


* Work with the share service centre team (responsible for the transaction accounting for O2C, P2P, and R2R) and internal finance team (costing) to answer questions, elevate issues, etc.


* Execute all local legal entity transformation activities as directed by Corporate Tax team and by the third-party Tax Partner if any.


* Evolve into the local Super User (key user) for key accounting processes impacting financial reporting including but not limited to O2C, S2P and R2R.


* Act as key subject matter expert on Local GAAP policy/procedures interpretation, US GAAP, as well as internal/external income tax and VAT reporting.


* Fixed asset processing & management.


* Coordinate with 3rd party supplier for company registration and board meeting.


* Coordinate and implement ad-hoc accounting/finance related project based on needs, including global and local initiatives.

Controls


* Demonstrate a strong compliance oriented mindset & help to build a strong compliance culture.


* Awareness of all applicable financial/taxation standards, process documentation & training materials to ensure compliant execution...