Tax Manager

We are on a lookout for a Tax Manager, who is hands-on and proactive team player who helps to manage and oversee the Group’s tax compliance, transfer pricing, tax reporting and provide tax advisory to internal stakeholders; and to support projects and ad-hoc duties, as required from time to time. To drive tax process improvement and strengthen tax controls and to drive best practices within the Group.

**Responsibilities**:
Tax governance & policy matters
- Reporting to the Head of Tax, you will ensure compliance with relevant tax and transfer pricing regulations across all entities in the Group, Singapore and regional (Greater China, India, ASEAN)
- Assist with the implementation of the Group Tax Strategy and the roll-out of tax policies, tax controls processes and best practices
- Assist to drive continuous tax optimization projects, Group tax process and controls improvements projects to enhance tax compliance quality and efficiency. Provide improvement recommendations
- Assist in developing tax-efficient structures for investment, intra-group financing, corporate shared services, cross-border transactions
- Monitor relevant updates to the Group tax governance and transfer pricing policies & best practices, in accordance with the latest tax regulation developments

Tax Compliance
- Oversee all aspects of tax compliance alongside the Finance team, ensure timely review and filing of tax return
- Review to identify tax planning opportunities and to minimize the occurrence of tax controversies

Transfer Pricing
- Manage/ facilitate the preparation of transfer pricing documentation report, tax position papers, benchmarking study in collaboration with the local country Finance team
- Responsible to ensure proper and adequate transfer pricing documentation is maintained to support intra-group transactions in compliance with local regulations
- Perform operational transfer pricing review to align business arrangements with transfer pricing policy and objectives

Tax Reporting
- Set up and maintain a central tax database for Group tax reporting, data analytics, preparing for the BEPS Pillar 2 requirements
- Manage the Group’s tax reporting, including annual tax accounting process, periodic review of tax provision balances and deferred tax assets/ liabilities to ensure accuracy
- Perform tax data analysis to offer insights and recommendation plan to manage tax risks for optimization and mitigation
- Provide tax advice, guidance, training to internal users on direct taxes, indirect taxes, withholding tax and other tax matters. Develop tax sharing content and conduct tax sharing sessions/ training to finance peers

Tax Advisory
- Business partnering to provide tax support on business transactions and projects
- Provide tax leadership and support on M&As and internal projects
- Support Human Resource department on foreign assignment’s tax compliance matters
- Review business and intercompany contracts for tax risk management

Tax Audit
- Manage tax audits and queries from tax authorities in collaboration with local country Finance team
- Analyze exposure and assessment, update stakeholders regularly

Tax Trends & Development
- Stay on top of tax law changes, evaluate impact on business, handle change management

Other duties
- Perform other duties and projects as assigned from time to time
- A person with positive mindset, can-do attitude, initiative-taker, collaborative skills, team worker
- Strong technical background, practical experience handling regional direct and indirect tax matters for MNCs. Transfer pricing working knowledge
- Self-motivated, strong sense of accountability, able to work under pressure to meet deadlines
- Keen eye for details, strong problem-solving skill, able to multi-task, manage competing priorities
- Good interpersonal skill, maturity to work with mínimal supervision, ability to meet datelines
- Degree in accountancy/ professional qualification, at least 10 years’ experience in MNCs performing similar roles
- Good verbal and written English, fluence in Mandarin to support the China entities

Conversant with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint