External Reporting Expert (Statutory & Tax)

The Statutory Reporting, CIT, VAT & Digital Reporting Expert is a senior subject matter expert responsible for ensuring compliance, accuracy, and technical excellence across statutory financial reporting, corporate income tax (CIT), indirect tax (VAT), digital tax reporting, and e-invoicing obligations. The role provides technical accounting and tax expertise, supports regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions, oversees the quality of outsourced activities, and drives continuous improvement in reporting and compliance processes. 

You will: 

• Act as the subject matter expert for statutory reporting, VAT and tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions, providing technical guidance to finance teams, business stakeholders and outsourced providers. 

• Own the statutory reporting and corporate income tax compliance cycle.  Prepare, review and submit the statutory financial statements under local GAAP, ensuring regulatory compliance, timely filings and appropriate disclosures. 

• Coordinate statutory audits, tax audits and regulatory enquiries, maintaining accurate reconciliations, supporting documentation and audit-ready records. 

• Assess and coordinate IFRS-to-local-GAAP adjustments, statutory accounting requirements and disclosures, working with external advisors and auditors to ensure compliant local financial statements. 

• Support corporate income tax compliance, including reviewing tax return data, tax calculations, tax accounting under IFRS and local GAAP, and related reconciliations. 

• Oversee indirect tax compliance, reviewing VAT returns, EC Sales Lists, Intrastat declarations and other filings, while advising on domestic and cross-border VAT treatment. 

• Monitor changes in accounting standards, tax legislation and regulatory requirements, assessing risks and implementing necessary compliance improvements. 

• Support digital tax compliance, including e-invoicing, CTC, SAF-T, ViDA and real-time reporting requirements, ensuring accurate submissions and data integrity. 

• Contribute to ERP enhancements, tax technology implementations and finance transformation projects, including system testing, automation and digital reporting solutions. 

• Manage outsourced statutory and tax compliance activities, reviewing deliverables, resolving technical issues and maintaining governance, internal controls and process documentation. 

• Partner with Group Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Shared Service Centres and external advisors, supporting audits, coaching junior colleagues and driving continuous improvement, standardisation and best practices. 

You will bring: 

• Professional accounting or tax qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CTA, or equivalent). 

• Strong experience in statutory financial reporting across multiple jurisdictions, including local GAAP adjustments, statutory accounts preparation, corporate income tax and external audit coordination. 

• Strong experience in VAT, and regulatory compliance. 

• Experience with digital tax reporting, e-invoicing, SAF-T, and CTC regimes. 

• Experience working with BPO providers and Shared Service Centres. 

• Good understanding of internal controls, financial governance and tax compliance controls, with experience operating or reviewing control frameworks. 

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA and tax reporting solutions. 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities. 

Based at the Weybridge office, you will enjoy a vibrant and friendly working environment. We have an onsite canteen with a wide range of options available, and a barista-style coffee shop. There is a well-provisioned onsite gym run by our Sony Wellbeing Coordinator, with classes on set days in the mornings, at lunch and after work hours. We have a staff car park which includes electric charging points, an undercover and secure bike rack, and a shuttle bus service that regularly runs between the train station and the office at peak times. 

Take a look at our video tour of the Weybridge site here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwbMOzjoVA 

Life at Sony 

We ensure competitive salaries and benefits by using established benchmarking. We encourage healthy work-life balance supported by hybrid and flexible working policies. We are a positive community who dream big together, respect each other, and enjoy a collaborative culture. 

We celebrate colleagues who make a real difference through our recognition platform. We provide access to services and platforms for wellbeing, listen to our people through conversations and surveys, and offer volunteering days so staff can support causes they care about. 

You can build your career around you with our learning and personal development programmes, and explore opportunities in a wide range of countries with support from our mobility team. 

Bring your uniqueness to Sony 

We are passionate about creating a culture that promotes equity and cultivates inclusion, diversity and belonging. We want employees with diverse backgrounds and perspectives who stimulate innovation and contribute to Sony’s purpose: “to fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology”. Bring your unique self to work and help shape our culture. 

We are Sony Europe 

Our people collaborate in an environment of respect, integrity and open-mindedness. Diverse teams from all over Europe are the driving force for our business, and we embrace the differences that make each of us original and unique. 

With offices in 28 European countries, Sony Europe caters to consumer, professional, semiconductor and healthcare markets with innovative electronics products and solutions. Our European laboratories research and develop new technologies and capabilities that contribute to the Sony Group and important issues on a planetary scale. 

Bring your passion, creativity and ambitions to Sony Europe. Apply now, and let’s create the future together. 

Equal Opportunity 

Sony Europe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, medical condition, or any other protected characteristics. 

Disability Accommodation for Applicants to Sony Europe 

Sony Europe will provide reasonable accommodation for any qualified individual with disabilities in the application process. For reasonable accommodation requests, please contact us by email at AccommodationRequest@eu.sony.com or by mail to: Sony Europe Limited, Human Resources Department, The Heights, Brooklands, Surrey, KT13 0XW, UK. When contacting us please indicate the position you are applying for, and the accommodation required. 

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