Tax Specialist

**Company Description
- You’re talented and adaptable. That’s why you’ll fit in.**

The strategy of Anglo American is to secure, develop and operate a portfolio of high quality and long-life resource assets to deliver leading shareholder returns. This can be achieved through innovative practices and technologies, in the hands of our world-class people, working towards a common purpose of re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

The purpose of Group Tax is to preserve and grow Anglo American plc shareholder value through the responsible, coordinated and professional management of the Group’s tax affairs, always in compliance with the law. The Group Tax team strives to be a world class, dynamic, flexible, empowered global tax team collaborating to contribute to the commercial success of the Group and delivering sustainable value.

**Job Description
- What you'll do**

**This is a 12 month fixed term contract**

The purpose of the Tax Specialist role is to provide critical support for the delivery of tax compliance and advisory activities in the region, collaborate and input with global teams and business stakeholders, support in implementing process improvements and solutions, ensure compliance and reporting processes are delivered in an accurate and timely manner and drive with key stakeholders within and outside of Group Tax.

This role will support the Marketing business unit in Singapore, proactively work with the stakeholders to ensure that we anticipate and keep up with the rapid pace of change.

**Key Tasks**:
**Performance & Delivery**

**_Tax Compliance and Reporting _**
- Support the tax compliance obligations of Anglo American in Singapore, across all taxes (CIT, GST, incentive reporting, Domestic Top-up Tax and similar taxes). This includes working with the group’s chosen compliance outsource provider (where relevant).
- Coordinate the preparation and filing of any global or local transfer pricing obligations, in collaboration with the central transfer pricing team and tax Business Partners
- Support the branch profit allocation calculations for the relevant Marketing entities, in collaboration with counterparts from the UK and the local tax Business Partners
- Manage the Group’s internal tax reporting requirements, and support engaging with auditors where required.

**_Process and Technology _**
- Seek out opportunities to improve processes, systems and technology, as well as exploring and recommending solutions
- Provide tax advice on system design and configuration to support business change
- Responsibility for the continued development of the compliance processes to ensure they continue to meet best practice, identifying opportunities to utilise technology and best practice processes
- Manage the implementation of tax automation opportunities as well as supporting globally run tax technology projects, managing the implementation of changes to process, controls and systems, while developing and monitoring appropriate controls for the region

**_Governance, Risk and Controls _**
- Support the control of the tax risks including specifically the obligations under the Tax Risk Management Policy and the operation and maintenance of the Tax Control Framework and the tax controls within the Internal Control Financial Reporting program

**_Tax Authority Management _**
- Support in the maintenance and enhancement of relationships with the IRAS, Enterprise Singapore, and Maritime & Port Authority.

**_Tax Advisory support _**
- Support tax Business Partners to tax advice on day to day tax matters and business transactions for the Marketing business.

**Qualifications
- What we’re looking for**

**Qualifications**:

- University degree in a relevant discipline preferred
- Chartered Accountant and/or Chartered Tax Adviser

**Technical Knowledge**:

- A solid working knowledge of Singaporean tax principles, including corporate income taxes, GST, and transfer pricing
- Ideally an awareness, knowledge or experience of Chinese tax principles
- Working knowledge of other international tax principles is desirable
- Some experience and knowledge of tax process design

**Additional Information
- Who we are**

Anglo American is a global diversified mining business. Our portfolio of world-class mining operations provides the metals and minerals that make modern life possible. We use innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine, process, move and market our products to our customers around the world.

As a responsible miner - of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore, coal and nickel - we are the custodians of what are precious natural resources. We work together with our key partners and stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we operate and for society at large. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

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