Tax Compliance Senior Analyst (Fixed-term until 2028 november)

Entity: Finance Job Family Group: Tax Group Job Description: Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner. It's an exciting time to join bp. Meeting the energy challenge requires many different approaches and solutions. And as part of Finance Business & Technology (FBT), you’ll be fully connected into the world of bp. You’ll play an increasingly important part within a network of like-minded colleagues partnering on strategic projects that stretch across the globe. And it starts with you. There’s a world of opportunities to build new skills, challenge yourself and grow a long-term career at bp. And no matter where you work, your role will have meaning, purpose and impact. So if you want to be part of a caring, supportive environment where you can realize your full potential, we’re with you. Join our Azule ARC Team and advance your career as a Tax Compliance Senior Analyst! This position is a fixed-term contract until November 2028! The Tax Compliance Senior Analyst role has the primary responsibility to ensure that we manage, control and develop our operations in a “process designed” manner to deliver value to the Azule business. A core part of this responsibility includes: Support the delivery of direct and indirect tax compliance activities for a designated region/country, ensuring accurate financial reporting, journal processing, and adherence to established controls and policies. Partner closely with Tax SMEs and business stakeholders to resolve tax-related issues, maintain process integrity, and drive continuous improvement, standardization, and automation across tax processes. Contribute to operational excellence by supporting audits, ensuring compliance with performance metrics and governance standards, and providing tax expertise to enable efficient and compliant business operations. In this role You will: Establish strong relationship with business partners to ensure smooth operations and successful delivery Develop good working relationships both internally and externally at peer level and represents the FBT (Azule Budapest Tax team) both to internal and external collaborators. Maintain a high standard of professional knowledge, ethics and practices when dealing with peers, subordinates, supervisors, and other key stakeholders of the company. Perform the tax coding of the assigned vendor invoices on a regular basis and effectively Cooperate with all the departments responsible for Tax activities (including business and FBT colleagues) Assemble tax activity related input information from key collaborators Understand, support and adhere to the company’s health and safety policies, programs and procedures by communicating and promoting health and safety awareness to coworkers and subordinates. Support on the period end closing activities that are in direct or indirect connection with tax activities Documentation and maintenance of Tax related standards and desktop procedures, standard operation procedures (SOPs) Support the standardization of the tax processes and controls across Azule Proactively support the implementation of process enhancements which are required to achieve or improve compliance with applicable regulation. Actively contributes to continuous improvement including standardization, efficiency, and simplification, by finding opportunities within own work. Support Business clients in understanding the imact of the Tax processes on their General Ledger and Reporting activities Work with the Internal Control team to design, implement and operate control activities to meet the control objectives identified regarding the Tax activities Support external and internal audits Providing deep “process domain expertise” for the relevant process to support operations delivery, silent running, quality management and control Support Delivery in line with finance service centre strategy to meet agreed Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators, targets and budgets. Support validations / reconciliations for company codes supported (especially follow up on failed reconciliations / validations) Resolve queries and issues as they arise typically directly with the Country Tax teams Work with the Country Finance / tax teams to understand priorities and work to deliver against these as required Work to be carried out in accordance with the timetables ensuring proper documentation on process activities performed and data used / created Look for opportunities to improve the team’s processes to create efficiencies and control improvements with regard to general process matters, works with extended Leadership Team on assigne