Global Tax Strategist

Job Description

The successful candidate will lead and manage global tax strategy, governance, and compliance ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.

• Develop, implement, and maintain the Group's tax strategy in line with business goals and evolving regulatory requirements.
• Set up, disseminate, and drive support for the Group's tax governance framework, ensuring consistent application across the organisation.
• Lead process change and enhance tax reporting systems to improve transparency, accuracy, and timeliness.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee tax due diligence, structuring, and execution for M&A transactions, divestitures, and joint ventures.
• Provide strategic tax input into investment evaluations, including fund structuring, set-up documentation, and exit planning.
• Advise on the tax implications of legal entity rationalisation initiatives, ensuring optimal post-transaction structures.

Operational & Compliance Management

• Lead legal entity rationalisation projects, ensuring tax efficiency and compliance.
• Oversee tax aspects of divestment of non-core assets, including planning, execution, and post-deal integration/separation.
• Manage tax compliance for investment funds, including FATCA and CRS classification and tax filings, application of fund tax incentives, GST remission claims.
• Ensure timely and accurate tax filings for all relevant legal entities in Singapore and across the Group's regional operations.

Pillar Two (Global Minimum Tax) Implementation

• Lead APAC implementation and ongoing compliance with the OECD's Pillar Two rules, including GloBE income and effective tax rate calculations.
• Partner with finance and IT teams to align data collection, systems, and processes for Pillar Two compliance.
• Monitor local adoption of Pillar Two across APAC jurisdictions and assess its impact on the regional tax profile.

CbCR

• Oversee CbCR compliance and filings for all relevant jurisdictions in APAC.
• Ensure consistency and accuracy of tax and financial data used for CbCR reporting.
• Collaborate with finance and other teams to align CbCR strategy and disclosure across entities.

Transfer Pricing

• Oversee Group transfer pricing strategy, ensuring compliance with OECD guidelines and local regulations.
• Manage intercompany pricing policies, documentation, and annual local file/master file requirements.
• Support local and regional transfer pricing audits and defend policies as needed.

Tax Reporting and Forecasting

• Manage tax provisioning, reporting and effective tax rate forecasting in compliance with IFRS and local GAAP.
• Collaborate with finance and FP&A teams to support annual tax reporting requirements or other reporting requirements, including U.S. reporting requirements of shareholder.
• Identify and implement tax process improvements and automation opportunities.

People & Stakeholder Engagement

• Mentor more junior colleagues, providing technical guidance and career development support.
• Partner with senior management, business leaders, and external advisors to ensure tax considerations are embedded in business decisions.
• Communicate complex tax concepts to non-tax stakeholders in clear, commercial terms.

 

Benefits

The ideal candidate will have a professional tax qualification and a minimum 12–15 years of relevant tax experience, with significant exposure to M&A and cross-border investment structuring.

 

Qualifications & Experience Required:

• Professional tax qualification (e.g., Chartered Accountant, CTA, CPA, or equivalent).
• Minimum 12–15 years of relevant tax experience, with significant exposure to M&A and cross-border investment structuring.
• Proven leadership experience in a multinational corporate or Big 4 environment.
• Strong technical knowledge of Singapore and international tax regimes.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

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