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Our people are at the heart of our solutions. They reflect the communities we live in and the world where we do business. Their diversity is our strength. We’re a community of relentless problem solvers that offers the daily opportunity to contribute with your perspective, transform industries and shape the future. Our purpose is simple - to deliver a sustainable future for the world through science and collaboration. If you’re looking for a challenge and meaningful role, you’re in the right place.
Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Tax Analyst – Direct Tax & Tax Accounting located in São Paulo, Brazil.
In this role, you will support the Company's direct tax function by ensuring tax compliance, accurate tax accounting, timely statutory filings, and support for tax planning initiatives. You will partner with Finance, Accounting, Operations, Legal, and Audit teams to mitigate tax risks, strengthen controls, and drive continuous improvement across tax processes.
Responsibilities:
- Prepare and review Corporate Income Tax (IRPJ) and Social Contribution Tax (CSLL) calculations, including monthly and annual tax provisions.
- Support direct tax compliance obligations, including ECF, DCTF, PER/DCOMP filings, tax credit management, and monitoring of tax attributes such as tax loss carryforwards and negative CSLL basis.
- Monitor tax legislation changes, assess business impacts, and maintain documentation supporting tax calculations and compliance.
- Prepare and review current and deferred tax calculations, ETR reconciliations, tax reporting packages, and support monthly, quarterly, and annual tax close activities.
- Perform reconciliations of tax-related balance sheet and income statement accounts and support reporting requirements under BRGAAP, US GAAP, and IFRS.
- Maintain and enhance tax controls, governance processes, documentation, and management of tax contingencies and uncertain tax positions.
- Identify and implement opportunities for process improvement, standardization, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Support internal and external audits, tax authority inquiries, assessments, and information requests while coordinating activities with external tax advisors.
- Partner with Finance, Accounting, Operations, and Legal teams by providing technical tax guidance and communicating tax matters to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support tax planning initiatives, restructuring projects, strategic business transactions, tax transformation programs, and implementation of new regulatory requirements and corporate tax policies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Law, or a related field.
- Solid experience in Corporate Direct Tax and Tax Accounting.
- 5+ Experience with Corporate Income Tax compliance, tax reporting, deferred tax accounting, tax audits, and financial close processes.
- Strong knowledge of IRPJ, CSLL, ECF, DCTF, PER/DCOMP, tax loss carryforwards, tax credits, and Effective Tax Rate (ETR) reporting.
- Knowledge of BRGAAP, US GAAP, and IFRS.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Intermediate English level.
Yours Skills are:
- Experience in multinational corporations.
- Knowledge of Transfer Pricing and international taxation.
- Familiarity with ASC 740, IAS 12, and FIN 48.
- Experience with SAP, BlackLine, Power BI, or similar systems.
- Experience with tax technology, automation, analytics, reporting tools, and reconciliation controls.
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Benefits – What Dow offers you
We invest in you.
Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.
Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
- Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
- Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
- Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
- On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
- Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
- Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
- Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
- Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
- Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)
Join our team, we can make a difference together.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2024. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting www.dow.com.
As part of our dedication to inclusion, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.