On March 26, Ms. Yan Lan, Tax Director for North Asia at Unilever, was invited to delivered a lecture titled New Structural System and the Supply-Demand of Talents in Multinational Corporate Tax Departments. Faculty and students from related disciplines attended the event. The session commenced with opening remarks by Professor Tian Fa, Head of Applied Economics and Director of the Tax Master's Program, and was hosted by Zhao Aifeng, Deputy Director of the Department of Accounting and Taxation.
Yan Lan shared her professional experience. She joined Unilever in 2013 and currently serves as the tax director of Unilever North Asia. She analyzed the current technological innovation trends in the tax field: tax automation systems and AI have gradually replaced basic tax operations, and tax practitioners must improve their tax skills following technological changes and economic development.
Subsequently, Yan Lan introduced the structure, strategic goals, long-term value of Unilever's tax department, as well as the development of Unilever, enabling students to understand the functional division and operation mode of the tax department of a Fortune Global 500 company.
Finally, Yan Lan encouraged students to cherish every class at school, discover their own advantages, and make up for their skill deficiencies, so as to have a high starting point when taking the first step in employment after graduation.
During the Q&A session, Yan Lan exchanged views with teachers and students on questions such as How to deal with the challenge of the imbalance between high-intensity work and life? and How to break through the career bottleneck and achieve a leap? She encouraged students to build up physical strength to handle high-intensity work; always adjust their mentality and accept the reality that high returns require high efforts, and inject small but certain happiness into work through hobbies like traveling and enjoying delicious food; learn to make choices about goals, clarify career priorities, and focus on core goals.
Finally, Zhao Aifeng summarized the lecture, hoping that through this lecture, students could improve their core competitiveness, clarify their goals, pursue their dreams, and realize their self-worth.
Translated by Wei Xin
Reviewed by Liu Weiwei
