General Accounting Partner – Accounting, Tax & Compliance

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

This role exists to oversee the regulatory compliance of assigned country is met. Responsible for ensuring that the underlying company policies and
procedures comply with the various regulatory laws and standards including tax, corporate, bank and insurance requirements. Labor/employment regulations related to compensation rules will be handled separately by People Team except for tax on compensation and benefits.

The role is the single point of contact for all (tax) compliance related activities for the country and adherence to the global tax policies as set
by the Global Tax Team.

The Regional Finance Team will maintain ownership of execution and implementation of the company policies e.g. Treasury and Accounts Payable related policies are coordinated with ICA and API-GAM to ensure compliance requirements are fulfilled.

Role accountabilities:

▪ Reviews and evaluates company policies and procedures to identify any potential risks/non-compliance issues and drives/recommends necessary changes/improvements
▪ Liaise with legal counsel to ensure compliance with any statutory reporting obligations and procedures.
▪ Liaise with necessary government agencies and stakeholders as required when lodging any statutory reporting documents.
▪ Review and analyze the preparation of the tax calculations/provisions, reconciliations, and maintenance of tax balances in the books including any financial reports that the bank (creditor) may require. For clarity, preparation is done by the Regional Finance Team via a Dedicated support (who
demonstrates some expertise per country i.e. at job level 5/6, depending on size and complexity of the country business and rules. This Dedicated support is owned by the Regional Finance GA Team to ensure consistency across GD. In addition, the ICA may also utilize external tax consultant as prescribed by Group
▪ Accountable on correct and timely filing of Tax Returns and Compliance Reports supported by the Dedicated support to ensure its timely submission and report out to management any issues, risks and exposures.
▪ Ensures adequate insurance coverage/protection of property against all property risks
▪ Ensure compliance with new tax laws and regulations to avoid penalties and mitigate tax exposures.
▪ Minimize tax liabilities through informed application of tax laws and regulations.
▪ Responsible in the periodic review of company policies and processes, ensuring updated and effective compliance to latest regulatory rules and regulations.
▪ Understand process flows of the business to make sure they understand the tax, risk components and proactively influence business process changes
▪ Co-project manage financial audit engagement and liaise requirements necessary to complete the audit. For clarity, the Regional Finance Team maintains to support and prepare necessary schedules and Country Controller to support on operational matters, as necessary.
▪ Coordinate with Group Tax on the annual update of the Transfer Pricing documentation
▪ Consult, coordinate and align with Group Tax on tax policy, technical tax positions, tax audits, transfer pricing, tax risk management and other material tax matters, as per the global tax policies and procedures.
▪ Create Master Intercompany Service Agreement and other necessary intercompany agreements between GEC PH and other affiliates as necessary and as aligned with Group Tax, Group Legal, and Group Privacy.
▪ Advise People – Service Payroll team on tax implications of secondments from GEC PH to other countries / regions
▪ Advise Group Tax of changes in local tax rules and regulations
▪ With support of the In Country Travel Coordinator, monitors incoming visitors to the country and foreign work assignments including length of stay to avoid creating a permanent establishment or personal tax burden.
▪ Ad hoc tasks as applicable to ensure that the country is compliant with changing regulations

Qualifications & Experience:

• Significant professional experience (15 years or more) in finance and preferably with strong tax/compliance background.
• Experience of working in a medium/large organization in a senior role
• Good leadership and management skills
• Able to think, analyze, consider the broader context to develop pragmatic solutions
• Proactive and can work independently
• Able to force decisions in contentious areas thereby ensuring timely closure
• Able to manage relationships and senior stakeholders
• Able to work to deadlines and adapt to changing conditions
• Excellent communication and stakeholder relationship building skills/ collaborative
• Strong planning, organizational and project management skills
• Culturally adoptive
• Well-developed verbal and written English
• Excel & ERP proficiency will be a plus
• Full accounting and/or controlling qualification with strong tax/compliance background

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. At Arcadis, you will have the opportunity to build the career that is right for you. Because each Arcadian has their own motivations, their own career goals. And, as a ‘people first’ business, it is why we will take the time to listen, to understand what you want from your time here, and provide the support you need to achieve your ambitions.