TAX ASSISTANT

Description

Job Summary: Handle routine tax tasks, including tax calculation, document accounting, and submission of ancillary obligations, ensuring compliance and supporting tax management. Key Highlights: 1. Collaborative, dynamic, and challenging environment. 2. Culture guided by continuous growth, resilience, and excellence. 3. Autonomy to create, innovate, and learn, with real impact on society. We are a Brazilian company driven by biotechnology, committed to advancing the understanding of life and building a more sustainable, healthy, and prosperous future. We support scientific progress, environmental awareness, public health, and collective well-being by developing technologies that enhance the outcomes of scientists and professionals. Our environment is collaborative, dynamic, and challenging — ideal for fast learners who value idea exchange and wish to grow alongside us. Our culture is guided by continuous growth, resilience, excellence, and the **Loccus DNA**, which values integrity, perseverance, and an entrepreneurial mindset. We expect all team members to demonstrate effective communication, personal accountability, and continuous learning. **Job Mission:** Assist in routine tax activities, including tax calculation, document accounting, invoice verification, and submission of ancillary obligations, ensuring compliance with current legislation. Contribute to the organization and accuracy of tax processes, supporting the team in the company’s tax management. **Responsibilities:** Responsibilities: Record invoices in the ERP system with correct classification of goods, NCM codes, customers, and suppliers, ensuring proper configuration of tax systems and accurate identification of products/inputs destined for industrialization, use, consumption, and other items related to company operations. Enter invoices after verifying them against purchase orders, checking quantities, values, highlighted taxes, CFOP codes, tax rates, and other necessary information to ensure alignment among purchase orders, physical receipt, and fiscal documents. Support the calculation of direct taxes (IR/CS) and indirect taxes (IPI, PIS, COFINS), as well as ICMS calculation (including DIFAL) for inter-state transactions across all Brazilian states. Support ISS calculation due on services provided and received, ensuring compliance with applicable municipal legislation. Also perform reconciliation of tax receivable and payable accounts, monitoring variances and pending items. Monitor the submission of ancillary obligations by external tax and accounting service providers, reviewing submitted files (e.g., SPED Fiscal, SPED Contributions, DCTF, State GIA, REINF, and other declarations), and ensuring legal deadlines and requirements are met. Assist in sending required documents and information to correctly generate these obligations. Understand federal, state, and municipal tax legislation applicable to companies, enabling timely updates to internal systems and procedures. Includes monitoring relevant tax changes and supporting implementation of ERP parameter adjustments. Generate licenses, permits, and debt certificates from third-party authorities, tracking expiration dates and validity periods of such documents. Participate in tax planning projects aimed at reducing the overall tax burden, as well as conducting tax consultations regarding taxation according to respective NCM codes, assisting in scenario analysis, identifying applicable tax benefits, and recognizing opportunities for tax credits. Prepare reports for management and execute administrative support routines for the department, including document organization, spreadsheet control, and preparation of financial statements. Support internal and external audits by organizing documents and clarifying tax-related questions. Occasionally assist in billing issuance, processing invoices based on shipping orders and verifying taxes, CFOP codes, and tax rules, ensuring compliance with company practices. Support industrial movement routines — such as shipments, returns, and transfers — ensuring appropriate documentation and correct fiscal classification aligned with production flow and inventory rules. **Mandatory Requirements:** Currently pursuing or having completed a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, or related fields; Knowledge of ERP systems (Protheus); Intermediate Microsoft Office proficiency; **Desirable Requirements (Advantages):** Experience in product-related tax routines; Knowledge of Protheus and CRC, certifications in tax and/or accounting fields. **Work Model:** On-site **Working Hours:** Monday to Friday, from 8:00 AM to 5:48 PM. **Benefits:** Meal allowance; Transportation allowance; Health insurance; Dental insurance; WellHub (Gympass); **Why Join Our Team?** Why choose Loccus? You’ll be part of a united, purpose-driven team. You’ll have autonomy to create, innovate, and learn every day. You’ll work on projects that deliver real societal impact and thrive in an environment where growth is continuous and collective. If you seek a place to evolve, connect with a genuine purpose, and put your talent into action, join Loccus. Here, innovation starts with you.