Tasks
Your main tasks include, among others:
- Identify local requirements for financial statements and contact the Head Office, collect necessary data, engage local accountant / auditors if required
- Formulate local accounting specifics including VAT and WHT regulations, forward to HQ accounting.
- Submit and pay tax declarations (VAT, CIT, PIT), provide reports, maintain local books, recover tax refunds
- Handle tax audits, share information with HQ and partners, communicate tax compliance issues and risks
- Establish contact with local/regional collection companies/law firms
- Define local invoicing specifics, coordinate scanning and archiving of invoices
- Optimize currency repatriation, monitor bank balances, manage financial sanctions, reconcile unclaimed payments
- Fulfill local corporate compliance tasks (e.g. company registration, e-Signatures, GDPR, surveys, PoAs)
- Perform annual closing
- Ensure compliance with corporate accounting requirements
- Optimize payments considering local fiscal requirements
- Provide financial and administrative support in emergencies and aircraft incidents/accidents
Requirements
The ideal Finance / Business Administration Specialist should meet the following requirements:
- University degree (Bachelor) in Accounting, Business Administration, etc. and at least 2 years of work experience
- Vocational Training in Accounting, Business Administration, etc. and at least 5 year of work experience
- Alternatively, A-level/High School Diploma and 8 years of work experience
- Fluent knowledge of English and Spanish both written and spoken
- Solid knowledge on fiscal law
- Knowledge of local Tax compliance and regulatory regulations
- Very good knowledge of MS-Office products
- SAP knowledge desirable
- Diligent, independent and systematic approach to work
- Goal orientation
- Ability to deal with complex issues
- Numeracy skills
- Ability to prioritize
- Courteous manner and social skills, explicit customer- and team-orientation
- Ability to instruct colleagues in technical matters
- Willingness to travel
*Must possess a legal work permit in Spain
*CV/Resume and Cover Letter required
Company
About Lufthansa Group Business Services GmbH
We offer shared services worldwide for the entire Lufthansa Group in the areas of Finance, Business Intelligence & Transformation, Human Resources, Procurement and IT as well as Occupational Safety and Medical Services, which we provide or manage ourselves.Our primary goal: professionalism. We achieve this on the one hand by harmonising and standardising processes and on the other hand by continuously increasing their efficiency and effectiveness. In doing so, we see ourselves as a protagonist in digitalisation, as well as in the use and dissemination of the latest technologies, for example in the area of business process automation.As an internationally operating company, we are represented at locations in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Delhi, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Krakow, Manila, Mexico City, New York City and Vienna and manage business process outsourcing (BPO) providers at home and abroad.
