Accounting and Tax Manager

Job Grade: BRA12 

Hiring Manager: Luiz Eduardo Alves Bertoldi 

Internal Posting Date:  09/12/2025 

​Professional  |  Permanent  |  Full-/ Part-time  |  Hybrid​

Our Corporate Functions teams make sure everything at Grünenthal runs smoothly by bringing together people with a wide range of skills – from experts in finance, IT, HR, law and compliance through to business strategists and creative media minds. If you’re a great collaborator and a strong communicator, you’ll feel right at home here. Join our team and join forces with colleagues across our business to maximise our company’s positive impact on patients and their families.

What the job looks like: 

• Oversee all Accounting (IFRS/CPCs/German Gaap), Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Treasury routines.
• Lead and coordinate all external (Big Four) and internal audit processes, ensuring deadlines are met and recommendations are correctly implemented.
• Ensure the accuracy and correct recording of all financial transactions.
• Lead initiatives to optimize working capital.
• Lead initiatives of Process Continuous Improvement
• Manage the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and execution of activities performed by the Shared Service Center (SSC) in Lisbon, Portugal.
• Search for efficient tax strategies, according to corporate guidance.
• Coordinate accounting, tax and treasury projects and ensure their implementation, according to corporate requirements.
• Identify and set effective procedures to protect company assets and ensure proper reports to governmental entities, according to local legislation.
• Manage the Other Operating Results Budget
• Prepare and monitor Cash Flow
• Lead the tax credit strategy, actively seeking efficient and additional tax optimization opportunities, in full compliance and alignment with corporate governance.
• Lead the entire implementation and update of the Brazilian Tax Reform, analyzing its impacts and ensuring business continuity and compliance.
• Manage the relationship and deliverables of external consultants (Tax)
• Lead compliance process with audit firm (Big Four).
• Ensure full operational excellence and compliance in all legal and tax processes, aligned with policies 

What you’ll bring to the table

• University Degree in Accounting (mandatory active CRC/CPA equivalent).
• Desirable: MBA or Postgraduate Degree in Finance, Controlling.
• Solid experience in Accounting and Tax management.
• Experience working with a Shared Service Center (SSC).
• Experience in revising Financial Statements, ECD, and ECF.
• Previous experience with auditing (Big Four) is a differentiator.

Ensure operational excellence and compliance in all legal and tax processes, aligned to policies, laws and internal procedures.

To lead and oversee the Accounting, Fiscal (Tax), Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Treasury functions. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring accuracy, compliance, and operational and reporting excellence across all financial processes. This leader must act as a strategic business consultant, ensuring strategic alignment and supporting decision-making across the entire company

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