About the Role
Takes full responsibility for the overall management of Overseas Tax. This includes planning, developing, executing, and monitoring activities and related systems with optimum resources at efficient cost. The role demands adherence to company quality standards and involves managing risks and opportunities to advance the department's objectives.
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Key Accountability Areas
Tax Law Knowledge:
- Knowledge of domestic and international tax laws, including corporate tax, VAT, withholding tax, and related regulations.
- Ability to interpret and apply tax laws to various business scenarios.
- Ensures compliance across different jurisdictions.
Tax Compliance and Reporting:
- Expertise in preparing and reviewing tax returns, managing tax filings, and ensuring timely payments and reporting.
- Oversee accurate preparation and filing of tax returns for subsidiaries.
- Monitors deadlines and compliance requirements in various jurisdictions.
Tax Planning and Optimization:
- Develop tax-efficient strategies and optimize the group’s tax position, including transfer pricing, tax credits, and incentives.
- Identifies opportunities to optimize tax positions across subsidiaries.
- Collaborates with finance teams to implement strategies.
Transfer Pricing Management:
- Understand transfer pricing regulations and ensure compliance with local and international standards.
- Implement and oversee transfer pricing documentation and compliance.
- Work with external advisors to manage intercompany pricing strategies.
Risk Management and Audit Support:
- Manage tax risk and support internal and external audits, including responding to inquiries from tax authorities.
- Identify potential tax risks and implement mitigation strategies.
- Support audit processes and ensure readiness for tax inspections.
Cross-border Taxation and International Tax:
- Understand cross-border tax issues and double taxation treaties, ensuring compliance in multi-jurisdictional environments.
- Manage tax compliance in various countries where subsidiaries operate.
- Understand treaty benefits and withholding tax obligations.
Stakeholder Communication and Collaboration:
- Excellent communication skills for interaction with internal stakeholders (e.g., finance, legal) and external advisors (e.g., tax consultants, auditors).
- Effectively communicate complex tax matters to non-tax professionals.
- Collaborate with finance and legal teams to align on tax strategies.
Analytical Skills:
- Strong analytical abilities to review tax data, identify discrepancies, and ensure accurate reporting and compliance.
- Identify and address potential errors or issues in tax filings.
- Provide thorough analysis of tax-related data and implications.
Technology and Tax Automation:
- Familiarity with tax compliance software, automation tools, and ERP systems for efficient tax reporting and filing.
- Leverage tax technology for reporting and compliance.
- Stay updated on emerging tax technology trends.
Role Accountability
HR Proficiency:
- Recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers while exposing them to create a robust second line of management.
- Guide low performers to improve or release them.
- Treat all subordinates equally without discrimination.
- Assess subordinates based on performance that leads to planned results.
- Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to maintain sufficient delegations as per company policy.
Responsibility:
- Take full responsibility for operations as per the job description and required deliverables, considering general company guidelines.
- Anticipate problems and take proactive steps to prevent them.
- Make necessary and timely decisions.
Delivery:
- Deliver results in a timely manner with the required quality and cost.
- Make a tangible difference to the area of operation and exceed business expectations.
Business Planning and Performance:
- Transform corporate goals into business plans and execute those plans, whether annual or development.
- Monitor plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results, taking corrective action as needed.
- Provide periodic work progress reports.
- Monitor and control budgets and expenses to achieve optimum cost efficiency.
Organizational Development:
- Develop the organizational structure according to current requirements, considering future development plans.
- Ensure availability of job descriptions for all roles.
Business Process Improvements:
- Develop and coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automation opportunities.
- Navigate through IT solutions relevant to the job and business.
- Promote the use of automated systems to spread its culture.
Quality:
- Recognize quality as a prime competitive advantage and act accordingly.
Adaptation:
- Adapt to new techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
Health, Safety and Environment:
- Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per standard regulations.
Academic Qualification:
- Bachelor Degree in Accounting and Finance or a relevant field.
Work Experience:
Technical / Functional Competencies:
- Accounting Best Practices
- Accounting Methods
- Accounting Principles
- Accounting Rules/Guidelines
- Accounting Systems
- Excise Taxes
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Planning
- Financial Reporting
- Sales and License Taxes
- Tax Accounting
- Tax Analysis
- Tax Authorities
- Tax Compliance
- Tax Law
- Tax Return Preparation
