enables tax-effective business decisions, defends IATA’s tax positions and tax

Employment Type: Permanent

Contract Duration:

At IATA, we speak for the airlines of the

world, serving and supporting over 300 of them across all continents. We

are passionate and knowledgeable about the aviation industry, and we strive to

make it safer, smarter, more sustainable and more inclusive. We celebrate

diversity and inclusion in our workforce, and we respect and value the

different backgrounds, perspectives and skills of our employees. We also care

about our employees’ wellbeing, and we provide flexible work arrangements,

travel benefits, family-friendly policies, equal pay and a day off on your

birthday. We believe in giving back to the community and encourage our staff to

participate in volunteering activities that support causes they care about. We

encourage you to join our global community of aviation enthusiasts, and we will

do our best to make you feel comfortable during the interview process. IATA is

more than a trade association; it is a vision of a better future for air

travel.

About the team you are joining

IATA is the trade association for the

world’s airlines, representing over 320 airlines across 120 countries. Our

members comprise 83% of total air traffic. IATA’s mission is to represent,

lead, and serve the airline industry.

You will join IATA’s Corporate Taxation department

which is one of six departments under the Corporate Services Division reporting

to the CFO. The team will be growing to five and made up of three people in Geneva

and two in Montreal. You will be based in Geneva, reporting to IATA’s Assistant Director,

Corporate Taxation.

The Corporate Tax department is

responsible for IATA’s direct and indirect tax planning and compliance

worldwide. This includes providing

support to all of IATA’s lines of business to ensure IATA’s global advocacy,

products and services are delivered in accordance with IATA’s NPO status, while

ensuring IATA complies with all tax filing obligations. The Corporate Tax team

enables tax-effective business decisions, defends IATA’s tax positions and tax

status worldwide, and is responsible for all tax reporting and compliance.

What your day would be like

Join our Corporate Services division as we embark on a continuous

improvement and digital transformation journey. The ambition of Corporate

Services is to be the trusted proactive partner providing data-driven corporate

services for the business, while upholding the highest fiduciary standards.

You will interact daily with colleagues

from other Corporate Services teams and with IATA business teams worldwide in

the following areas:

1) Advice to the Business and Optimizing the tax treatment of IATA Activities

• Participate to the management of IATA’s tax residency certificates and forms that minimize the tax implications of IATA’s global activities:
• Submit applications with the relevant tax administrations and arrange for notarization, storage and making the certificates available to IATA customers, product managers and Customer Service representatives.
• Prepare country-specific forms that customers require to grant tax treaty benefits, and maintain the relevant forms/data on IATA share point and extranet.
• Conduct annual campaigns with US customers to obtain their Sales Tax exemption certificates and maintain them in IATA’s US sales tax tool (Vertex).
• Provide IATA product managers, customers, vendors, banks, and other partners with documentation related to IATA tax registrations worldwide, tax clearance and tax exemption forms.
• Support the Director Taxation and Assistant Director Taxation with providing advice to the business that will optimize the tax treatment of, for example, IATA Events in new markets, expansion of IATA training centers and opening new office locations.

2) Tax Reporting and Compliance

• Perform administrator tasks for IATA’s tax returns repository tool (Riskonnect):
• Work with regional finance teams and the external advisors to ensure that all IATA tax filing obligations worldwide are maintained in Riskonnect, and the due dates are regularly updated based on external advisors’ feedback.
• Align with the Corporate Secretary to ensure corporate registration changes are updated and regularly maintain IATA entities’ information relevant for tax filing.
• Arrange for user access, create customized reports and dashboards and test all enhancements.
• Tax Technology and Data Management.
• Assist with User Acceptance Testing for tax-related SAP functions, Vertex, the IATA Online Store and other IATA billing systems.
• Help to advise business users on invoicing matters, and assist with corrections for blocked invoices for sales transactions.
• Assist with monthly checks of sales invoices issued from billing systems not interfaced with SAP, to facilitate timely VAT accounting and reporting.
• Assist with the routine verification of customers’ and vendors’ tax registration numbers and arrange for master data update where necessary.
• Prepare and run the SAP reports to perform various tax controls.
• Support the Global Engagement with External Tax Advisors.
• As a Procure-to-Pay specialist, assist with the acquisition of tax compliance and tax advisory services worldwide, including raising contracts and ‘vendor master’ creation in SAP, monitor the work completion, perform invoice reconciliation and payment instruction.
• Co-ordinate IATA-Legal review of engagement letters in accordance with IATA procedures.

Prepare and update the tracking files to report tax compliance and consulting fees for budget and year-end accrual processes.

We would love to hear from you if

Experience with SAP, particularly Procure-to-Pay.

• Competency with finance and tax reporting tools.
• Interest in Tax and VAT principles and tax planning for international businesses.
• Strong interpersonal skills. Our goal is to build your tax knowledge along with the ability to explain complex (finance, tax, SAP PtP) principles in a business setting.
• An analytical thinker, exhibiting intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm, accustomed to working with data, able to develop relevant analysis and driven to tangible outcomes.
• Competency or interest in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software is an asset.
• Fluent in English, a second language is an asset.

Travel Required: No

Learn more about IATA’s role in the industry, our benefits, and the team at iata/careers/. We are looking forward to hearing from you!