Head of Tax, Apac

**Job Information**:
Job Opening ID
- 454

Industry
- Information Technology and Services

City
- Melbourne

Province
- Victoria

Country
- Australia

Postal Code
- 3000

Work Experience
- 10 years+

aleksandar. have been appointed to manage a rare recruitment process on behalf of a global information, technology and services (ITS) organisation. Our business partner is at the forefront of providing the world’s largest multinational companies with software and various digital solutions to optimise, streamline and automate their processes and data to gain an edge on their competitors and make their day to day business operations more efficient.

Our mandate is to identify and appoint a highly motivated individual to join the local executive leadership team and take full ownership of the group’s regional tax function. The Head of Tax, APAC will be responsible for a range of taxation responsibilities across planning, strategy and risk management. The role will also involve developing and executing tax optimisation initiatives to business units across the group in Asia Pacific, this includes driving multiple strategic transformation projects while working closely with joint venture investments and other internal and external stakeholder groups. The position will sit within the Asia Pacific* regional tax division and will report directly into the Group Head of Tax in head office.

Your success in this role will hinge on the strength of your technical experience in corporate and international tax. You will have a strong knowledge and understanding of taxation risk and regulatory requirements (cultivated at a big4 accounting firm or top-tier law firm) in order to effectively advise management and cross functional teams around the world, including Legal, Products, Accounting, Sales and other Operations groups to drive practical commercial solutions.

In return, this position will provide you with excellent in-house tax technical exposure for a large corporate. There is also a heavy focus on career development in the tax function as a whole, opportunities to move internationally with group tax and considerable exposure to senior executives within the wider business.
- Assist in development and execution of tax planning strategies in support of global growth strategies and initiatives, including preparation of internal agreements to document and support international tax positions.
- Be a centre of competence for corporate tax matters of the Group in the assigned markets with support from functional specialists in Group Tax and Legal.
- Manage the tax positions and the relationship with tax auditors and continuously strive to optimise the tax position in the assigned markets, in line with the Group's quality and risk standards.
- International tax research and planning (including foreign tax credits, transfer pricing, dividend repatriation strategies, hybrids, withholding taxes, insurance related industry-wide issues and foreign currency exchange matters).
- Provide technical review and tax clearance of transactions and arrangements entered into by the company across Asia. Oversee and sign-off on joint venture transactions lead by regional or head office investment groups.
- Calculate and communicate periodic transfer pricing adjustments to ensure financial results of foreign/regional affiliates are consistent with intercompany agreements and global transfer pricing policies.
- Provide advice to accounting, legal and operational business units to ensure consistency with global tax policies and positions.
- Provide high quality tax advice to the Regional finance leaders and business management, in cooperation with the Group's tax functional experts.
- Maintain tax and transfer pricing training materials. Routinely conduct cross functional training to ensure company wide understanding of global transfer pricing arrangements and tax policies.
- Assist the Global Transfer Pricing Manager with drafting, revising, and maintaining global intercompany agreements, including: royalty agreements, support services agreements, loan agreements, distribution agreements, cost sharing agreements, etc. Ensure that new legal entities enter into existing network of intercompany agreements.
- Foster innovation and work with the wider business to formulate strategic ideas and processes.
- Understand what is leading edge today can quickly become outdated tomorrow.
- Participate in ad hoc travel as and when required by the business.
- Read and interpret tax legislation at an advanced level.

**In return, this career opportunity is able to provide a diligent tax professional with the following**:

- Access to a high level of responsibility and autonomy in their role.
- Accelerated career progression and the opportunity to build out a tax function underneath them.
- Mentoring and professional development from highly networked senior professionals in the industry.
- A competitive remuneration package, bonus and company incentives.

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