Vat Analyst

**The Role** - You will be joining our Shared Service centre in Manchester working within our dedicated VAT team. The main purpose of this role is to support the EMEA VAT compliance manager to deliver accurate VAT compliance reports in linewith tax authority deadlines. You will be preparing and submitting monthly / quarterly VAT returns for EMEA in-scope countries by working autonomously to follow established procedures, accounting principles and guidelines in order to maintain the organizationsVAT returns. This includes filing relevant EU reports and providing monthly VAT GL account and turnover reconciliations.

**The Responsabilities**
- On time and technically accurate filing of VAT, EC sales list and Intrastat returns. Ensuring all relevant control sheets and corrections are filed, completed and followed up ensuring compliant and complete records
- Perform relevant monthly GL reconciliations including VAT to turnover, reconciliations of monthly returns to annual VAT submissions
- Execute VAT compliance tasks in a timely and accurate manner. Support in case of VAT audit or tax authority queries.
- Provide support and training to relevant stakeholder groups for VAT related topics; specifically use of SAP tax codes.

**About Us** - Today, Lonza is a global leader in life sciences operating across three continents. While we work in science, there’s no magic formula to how we do it. Our greatest scientific solution is talented people working together, devisingideas that help businesses to help people. In exchange, we let our people own their careers. Their ideas, big and small, genuinely improve the world. And that’s the kind of work we want to be part of.