CORPORATE INCOME TAX SPECIALIST FOR BELGIUM

JOB DESCRIPTION

ArcelorMittal is the world’s leading steel and mining company. At ArcelorMittal our goal is to help build a better world with smarter steels. Steels made using innovative processes, which are more efficient, use less energy and emit significantly less carbon. Steels that are cleaner, stronger and reusable. ArcelorMittal has the clear ambition to reduce its CO2 emissions intensity by 35% in Europe by 2030 and to reach company-wide net-zero by 2050. With approximately 168,000 employees, located in over 60 countries, ArcelorMittal is more than just a company, we are a community. We are driven by an entrepreneurial spirt and a passion for excellence, never accepting that the limits of our material have been reached.

Do you want to be part of the steel company of the future? Do you want to be part of pioneering projects aimed at CO2 neutral steel production? Do you want to play a crucial role in ArcelorMittal’s Tax team? Then you might be the person we are looking for. Read on quickly.

TITLE AND LOCATION

ArcelorMittal Holding and Services Belgium is looking for:

(Senior) Corporate Income Tax Specialist for Belgium (M, F, X), located in Gent (main location) and Brussels.

REPORTING TO

the ArcelorMittal Tax Supervisor Belgium- Head of Corporate Income Tax

and

the ArcelorMittal Tax Professional Belgium- Transfer Pricing

ROLE

We distinguish 4 main tasks:

1/ Management of tax incentives (e.g. R&D tax credit, innovation income deduction, investment deduction, …) related to business operations.

You will have a leading role in the management of tax incentives related to business operations. This includes among others:

• analyze the legal framework regarding the tax incentives.
• define and coordinate workstreams: which info is needed; define stakeholders that should be involved (e.g. legal, finance, business representatives, management); set up a process securing a consistent data gathering; make the bridge between the business facts and the legal framework on tax incentives on a comprehensive way; analysis of relevant aspects such as cost components, profitability, R&D aspects etc.
• when considered as appropriate, introduce a request for Advanced Agreement (also called ruling) as this would bring full tax certainty on the application of the tax incentive; manage the consultants who will support you for obtaining a formal ruling from the Service for Advanced Agreements.

2/ Tax accounting and reporting for Belgium

You will have an important supporting role with respect to the tax accounting for the 25 Belgian entities of the AM group. Tax accounting includes a large number of tasks such as calculating of tax provisions, application of the limitation of interest deduction, defining the group contributions in application of the Belgian tax consolidation regime, prepayments, complete tax reporting schedules for Corporate, file tax related enclosures.

3/ Tax advisory

You will create added value by providing tax advice. Tax advisory aims both control the tax related risks and make use of opportunities. Topics will be very divers, e.g. business restructurings, development of financing schemes for capex projects, application of tax consolidation.

4/ Transfer Pricing (TP)

You will provide support to ensure that the group complies in Belgium with the TP compliance requirements. More in particular you will provide guidance on the specific Belgian TP rules. In this tasks you will get in touch with multiple relevant stakeholders such as the ArcelorMittal Corporate Transfer Pricing Team, the ArcelorMittal Transfer Pricing Compliance Center, Transfer Pricing responsible people from business, Transfer Pricing responsible from the Cooperative Tax Compliance Team of the Belgian Tax Authorities etc.

PROFILE AND SKILLS

• Master in economics - Master in Business Engineering while at the same time being enthusiastic about tax matters.
• Strong technical interest in the steelmaking and decarbonization process.
• You are a team player, with a proactive attitude and eager to get opportunities realized.
• Being a good communicator as you will be in contact with multiple internal and external stakeholders from e.g. business, corporate departments, tax authorities, …
• Strong analytic and IT skills as you will manage files which require analysis of business projects, data collection from different systems, project management experience.
• Eager to support business projects with tax incentives and interested as well in using/improving tax management tools/processes.
• Having at minimum 3 up to 6 years of experience with business projects analysis and by preference also with the application of tax incentives.
• Fluent in Dutch, English and French.

OUR OFFER

• A professional and stimulating working environment in world’s leading steel and mining company.
• Being part of a proactive Tax Team Belgium with highly skilled and inspiring colleagues.
• Becoming business partner of socially relevant decarbonization projects.
• Working environment that provides value added training on tax, business knowledge, project management, language knowledge, management skills etc. resulting in a continuous personal development.