About the Role
Takes full responsibility for the overall management of Overseas Tax. This position involves planning, developing, executing, and monitoring activities and related systems using optimal resources at efficient costs while adhering to company quality standards. The role also includes managing risks and opportunities to elevate the department's performance.
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Key Accountability Areas
Tax Law Knowledge:
- Knowledge of domestic and international tax laws, including corporate tax, VAT, withholding tax, and other 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 tax 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:
- Ability to 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.
- Works closely with finance teams to implement strategies.
Transfer Pricing Management:
- Understanding transfer pricing regulations and ensuring compliance with local and international standards.
- Implements and oversees transfer pricing documentation and compliance.
- Works with external advisors to manage intercompany pricing strategies.
Risk Management and Audit Support:
- Managing tax risk and supporting internal and external audits, including responding to inquiries from tax authorities.
- Identifies potential tax risks and implements mitigation strategies.
- Supports audit processes and ensures readiness for tax inspections.
Cross-border Taxation and International Tax:
- Understanding of cross-border tax issues, double taxation treaties, and compliance in multi-jurisdictional environments.
- Manages tax compliance in different countries where subsidiaries operate.
- Understands treaty benefits and withholding tax obligations.
Stakeholder Communication and Collaboration:
- Excellent communication skills to interact with internal stakeholders (e.g., finance, legal) and external advisors (e.g., tax consultants, auditors).
- Communicates complex tax matters effectively to non-tax professionals.
- Collaborates 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.
- Identifies and addresses potential errors or issues in tax filings.
- Provides 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.
- Leverages tax technology for reporting and compliance.
- Stays updated on emerging tax technology trends.
Role Accountability
HR Proficiency:
- Ability to recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers to create a robust second line of management.
- Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
- Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix in accordance with company policy.
Responsibility:
- Must take full responsibility for operations as per the job description and required deliverables, considering general company guidelines.
- Able to anticipate problems and take necessary proactive steps to prevent them.
- Ability to make necessary and timely decisions.
Delivery:
- Deliver required results in a timely manner with the required quality and cost.
- Must make a tangible difference in the area of operation and exceed business expectations.
Business Planning and Performance:
- Able to translate corporate goals into strategic business plans.
- Plans, follows-up, and executes both annual and developmental plans.
- Monitors the plan's performance, initiating necessary corrective actions as needed.
- Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve optimum cost efficiency.
Organizational Development:
- Develop the organizational structure in accordance with current and future requirements.
- Ensure availability of job descriptions for all roles.
Business Process Improvements:
- Develop and coordinate well-defined systems, policies, and procedures while seeking opportunities for automation.
- Promote and fully utilize automated systems within the organization.
Quality:
- Act in accordance with the company’s commitment to quality as its prime competitive advantage.
Adaptation:
- Adapt to new techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
Health, Safety, and Environment:
- Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment in line with established 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
