At Decathlon, making sports accessible to ALL is a strong commitment. To achieve this, our daily challenge is to constantly adapt. Within a dynamic team, you'll have the opportunity to take on responsibilities and seize stimulating opportunities for your career at Decathlon.

In the context of the change of our accounting ERP system, the VAT & Tax Technology team is looking for a new Business Process Owner to manage our tax processes.

Within a process-oriented organization, it is essential for the group to manage the functional and technical requirements related to indirect taxes while ensuring the overall compliance of the process.

The VAT & Tax Technology team focuses on topics such as compliance, data quality, and the improvement of tax-related workflows and tools. The goal is to master the end-to-end tax process. You will work closely with different countries, international financial organization teams, the group's accounting department, and technical teams

Purpose:

• Design of the end-to-end process (workflows, inputs, outputs) based on the business strategies  from a single view combining : business, IT and user perspectives

• Ensure correct data management and interfaces of the processes through the data model and the architecture : global repositories access, roles and permissions for data access, local business rules 

• Ensure Process Consistency with other streams and subject matter experts

Key accountabilities: design end to end process based on the business strategies 

• Knows who to mobilize as contributors

• Design (document and maintain) the end-to-end process with each action/ step performed and by who

• Define process common principles regarding privacy (GDPR) and security standards 

• Make the link between IT and business team

Ensure correct data management and interfaces of the process

• Validate which data will be collected in each action/ step and permissions needed

• Validate data workflow through interfaces in order to optimize process efficiency

• Confirm at country level integrations that will be needed

• Be aware of country specific business rules and include them in the process

Ensure Process consistency 

• Challenge business and propose improvement, simplification of their end-to-end process

• Identify key KPI of the process to follow and report at United level

• Take an active part in the change management plan (training and communication)

•  Identify continuous improvements to foster adoption

• You are ready to commit for an experience of 3 years in an international environment

• You are able to formalize processes in a clear, precise and detailed manner 

• You understand and like project management

• You love to share and work as a team. You have strong interpersonal skills.

• You are analytical, logical thinking and problem solving skills

• You like working with tools and responsive with innovation

• You have a good knowledge in accounting and/ or tax topics

• Fluent in English and French