Indirect Tax Analyst
Job Summary
Elastic the Search AI Company enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time using all their data at scale unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500 brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data securing and protecting private information more effectively Elastics complete cloud-based solutions for search security and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.
VAT Compliance & Reporting
- Extract and prepare transaction data from NetSuite. This data will be used to create periodic VAT returns EC Sales Listings (ECSL) and indirect tax filings. These filings will include EMEA and LATAM jurisdictions. This includes Brazil Costa Rica and Mexico. Validate each dataset against local regulations before submission.
- Drive timely precise return submissions in partnership with our third-party tax vendor acting as an internal contact for data queries and critical issues.
- Build submission packages. These packages include supporting schedules. They include reconciliations and sign-off documentation as well. They must meet filing requirements and internal audit standards.
- Forecast VAT cash requirements across jurisdictions in partnership with Treasury so funding is in place well ahead of payment deadlines.
- Complete monthly and quarterly reconciliations between VAT returns and the general ledger digging into discrepancies with finance and AP/AR teams until every item is resolved.
- Post indirect tax journal entries accruals reversals and adjustments with complete documentation that holds up under SOX and external audit review.
- Maintain organised audit-ready records across assigned filings so any examiner can trace every number back to source.
- Initiate VAT bank payments on schedule allocate them properly and track confirmations to close out each filing cycle.
- Lead responses to VAT audits and tax authority inquiries coordinating data pulls and handling external advisors.
- 12 years of indirect tax compliance experience with exposure to VAT or indirect tax filings EMEA and LATAM experience is a plus but not required.
- Solid comprehension of indirect tax concepts and a willingness to learn how rules vary across the jurisdictions in scope.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience redefining large ERP data extracts into clean filing-ready datasets.
- Hands-on experience with NetSuite or a comparable ERP system.
- Clear written and verbal English communication skills for a global remote-first finance team.
- Proven track record to stay organised and deliver correctness timely work across multiple jurisdictions and filing cycles.
- Experience with OSS e-invoicing mandates or emerging EMEA VAT compliance schemes.
- Background in a multinational technology or SaaS company.
- Exposure to indirect tax regimes outside EMEA such as India GST or US sales tax.
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About Company
We're the company behind the Elastic Stack — that's Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, we help people explore and analyze their data differently using the power of search.