Accountant - Tax and Export Tax Rebates

About the role

Wabtec is hiring an Accountant in Suzhou to join its finance team of five people, which reports financial data to Germany and has reporting lines with China and France. The role covers daily tax declarations and the full process of export tax rebate handling.

Key responsibilities

• Handle daily tax declarations, including VAT, corporate income tax, stamp duty and others, and complete monthly, quarterly and annual filings accurately and on time.
• Run the export tax rebate end-to-end: collect export documents, check customs data, match invoices, file online, follow up and settle, ensuring no overdue declarations.
• Check payment applications and collaborate with sales, logistics and finance teams to resolve tax rebate issues such as data discrepancies and tax bureau reviews.
• Perform standard cost variance analysis and verify purchase orders, warehouse receipts and supplier invoices against three types of payable invoices.
• Standardise tax management, control tax risks, and cooperate with tax bureau inspections and audits.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree or above in taxation, accounting or finance.
• Professional qualification such as tax accountant or intermediate accountant.
• More than 5 years of independent export tax rebate declaration experience in foreign manufacturing enterprises, with full-cycle rebate processing.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Strong initiative, logic and implementation skills, good communication and teamwork.
• Ability to analyse financial data and prepare operational reports; cost accounting and project cost management experience preferred.

Required skills

• SAP or other ERP systems.
• Export tax rebate declaration system, electronic tax bureau platform and office software.
• Checking export customs data and VAT invoices.