Location:Rotterdam, NL, 3013 AA
Req ID: 88649
Facility: Rotterdam-548
Department: Global Tax Planning
Division: Finance
LyondellBasell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-year legacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietary MoReTec recycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come. LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. LYB places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. We’re addressing the global challenges of ending plastic waste, taking climate action, and supporting a thriving society, while generating value for our customers, investors, and society.

The EU Indirect Tax Lead will lead the EU indirect tax team (Compliance and Advisory) and is responsible for all Regional indirect tax matters, strategy, business advisory, compliance, audits, etc. Related, the role is responsible for developing, maintaining and monitoring the effectiveness of appropriate governance and controls, monitoring legislative changes and trends within the business environment. The EU Indirect Tax Lead takes the lead in tax audits in jurisdictions where no local in-house tax expertise is available; otherwise, VAT audits are managed and concluded in close collaboration with local country tax managers.
It is expected that the EU Indirect Tax Lead will work closely together with other tax and finance functions and is highly connected and involved in partnering with other LYB departments to have oversight on all matters which can have an effect on the LYB’s VAT and other indirect tax matters.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities

• Develop, drive and govern European Indirect Tax strategy (e.g. risk management, cash management, proactive assimilation of business, environmental, tax controversy and legislative changes, etc.);
• Lead the EU indirect tax team and ensure effective business partnering;
• Identify and mitigate indirect tax risks and ensure compliance with local and European legislation and standards. Ensure appropriate governance, process, and controls are in place to monitor risks;
• Monitor in direct tax developments and identify trends within regions, and based on these developments build strategic solutions in coordination with local country tax managers, finance and supply chain teams;
• Team with Tax, Finance and other relevant personnel to provide a consistent approach for indirect Tax;
• Collaboration with the IT organization and the Tax Technology team to ensure that our indirect tax technology landscape is fit for purposeIndirect Tax controversy;
• Consult and collaborate with local country tax managers on VAT audits, controversy, litigation, and dispute resolution; lead for VAT audits on controversy, litigation and dispute resolution, including negotiation and management thereof where no local in-house tax expertise is available;
• Monitor challenges by tax authorities globally, identifying trends, developing risk-based defense strategies and pro-active mitigation optionsBusiness partnering;
• Lead VAT workstreams for business-initiated projects, including identification of VAT compliance requirements;
• Provide proactive tax advice to the LYB group entities with technical excellence keeping pragmatism, business models and risk tolerance in mind;
• Create VAT awareness, empowerment, and higher quality data capture/reporting through knowledge sharing including training, development of job aids, development of standard processes and agreement of roles and responsibilities with those responsible for upstream processes;
• Provide strategic perspective, liaising with the various business units regarding process changes as a result of legislative changes, changes in policies or procedures, change in risk profile, etc.