Indirect Tax Planning Specialist for Brazil

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Join a team that’s passionate about partnership. With careers at Dow, we take time to explore questions and talk to each other. We love to learn. Our people are driven by limitless curiosity.

We are an innovative, customer centric, inclusive, and sustainable materials science company.
- Employing 36,500 individuals
- Across 109 manufacturing sites
- In over 31 countries

Our portfolio of products and solutions include:

- Plastics: With new technology trends, our plastic additives can be experienced in many everyday items including vinyl, blow-molding bottles, film, rigid containers, PVC plastics, siding, decks and rails, foam pipes and profile formulations, window frames and high-efficiency lubricants.
- Industrial intermediates: As the product of a reaction that is beneficial when used as a precursor chemical for another product, industrial intermediates can take on many shapes and forms. Ours are used in home comfort and appliance, building and construction, adhesives and lubricants, and more.
- Coatings: Whether it’s a water-based coating or solvent-based coating, a thin film is deposited on materials to enhance specific properties such as enhanced performance, durability, aesthetics, and sustainability.

We make diversity and inclusion a priority—because sharing our perspectives and building on each other’s ideas will drive innovation. Could you imagine yourself in a place like this?

**Dow** has an opening for a **Tax Specialist **in **Indirect Tax, Credits and Incentives LA **based in **São Paulo, Brazil. **The role is accountable to work in a high-performance cross-functional team environment and understand key business drivers to use this understanding to analyze local tax issues, tax planning and ensures local tax laws are compiled by all entities under its responsibility

**Responsibilities / Duties**
- Monitors, develops, and analyzes Tax legislation proposals and their impact on Dow companies.
- Prepare and review requests to the Tax Authorities (voluntary disclosure, tax refund, consultation, etc.).
- Tax planning - Increase tax savings and tax efficiency related to the operation performed by the Company. Identify risks and avoid tax assessments.
- Special regimes - analysis of the legislation, negotiation with the tax authorities, preparation of the request, monitoring of deadlines, renewal, etc.
- Analysis and monitoring the Tax Balance and suggest new scenarios to the business in order to reduce accumulated credits and get better financial results to the Company.
- Provides support in functional due diligence and planning for mergers and acquisitions.
- Participates in local projects with commercial people, legal, and controllers.
- Demonstrates initiative and certain degree of leadership in this role, and may provide informal guidance to new team members.
- Elaborate white papers, procedures, presentations, tax forms, tax calculations, reports.
- Working capital analysis to approve indirect tax credits recovery.
- Collaborate with internal departments (purchasing, invoicing, supply chain, legal, sales, post sales, etc.).

**Experience**
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Law, or related field.
- Fluent in English.
- Spanish it will be a differential.
- 5+ years of solid experience in Indirect Tax Planning.
- Strong knowledge of indirect tax legislation

**Your skills, knowledge, and abilities include**:

- Conflict management, negotiation, ability to manage complex projects/issues
- Focus and results oriented
- Able to clearly and concisely interface with all levels of management
- Detail-oriented individual who takes ownership of projects
- Passion for ethical excellence and for I&D
- Demonstrated ability to solve supply, price and logistics issues under pressure with competing priorities.
- Conflict management, negotiation, ability to manage complex projects/issues
- Focus and results oriented
- Negotiation.
- Ensuring a safe work environment by working safely and, complying with environmental, health and safety standards
- Able to clearly and concisely interface with all levels of management
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and an understanding of tax law and tax treaties.
- Detail-oriented individual who takes ownership of projects
- Passion for ethical excellence and for I&D
- Maintain appropriate relationship with key stakeholders, internal partners and suppliers.

**Additional notes**:

- No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position
- Domestic relocation support is not available.
- International relocation support is not available.
- We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations if you qualify as a person with disabilities.
- No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of permanent residency process
- ** Please do not forget to attach your resume.**

Dow Offers:

- A robust total rewards program, including: competitive base pay, variable pay that rewards individ