Case study 07 · Business-critical analytics

Global Tax Reporting Platform for OECD Pillar Two Compliance

Consolidating complex tax inputs into a traceable calculation and reporting model for OECD Pillar Two / GloBE reporting.

Industry
Pharmaceutical
Use case
Pillar II / GloBE tax reporting
Core stack
Power BI + Snowflake

The challenge

Corporate Tax needed a more transparent and repeatable way to analyse Pillar II obligations across jurisdictions. The process relied on fragmented sources and manual inputs, while the calculation model had to support Safe Harbour analysis, Effective Tax Rate calculations, Top-up Tax, QDMTT assessment and preparation for external review.

Model goal

Consolidate tax cube, ETRWEB, manual, PE/NCE, QDMTT and mapping inputs into a reusable analytical model.

Control goal

Make calculations easier to trace, review and reproduce across current and historical reporting years.

What was delivered

  • Power BI reports with Power Query transformations, DAX measures and Snowflake SQL logic.
  • Dynamic multi-year reporting using calculation-year parameters to switch between current and historical tax cube tables.
  • Safe Harbour and full GloBE calculation logic covering ETR, Adjusted Covered Taxes, SBIE, Excess Profits, Top-up Tax and QDMTT payable.
  • A consolidated reporting model that brings previously fragmented tax inputs into one reusable analytical workflow.
  • Outputs that support Corporate Tax review before external-advisor handover.

Business value

  • Improved transparency, traceability and audit readiness across jurisdictions.
  • Reduced dependency on fragmented Excel-based processes.
  • Enabled faster review of Safe Harbour results, ETR and tax exposure.
  • Created a reusable model for multi-year analysis rather than isolated annual reporting.

Technology

  • Power BI
  • DAX
  • Power Query
  • Snowflake SQL
  • Excel
  • Data models

Commercial takeaway

Power BI can serve as a controlled analytical engine for complex, high-stakes business calculations and review workflows — not only dashboards.

High-stakes calculations that must be traceable

We build reporting models where every number can be reproduced, reviewed and defended.