apac tax Compliance sme (mckinley taguig)ManpowerGroup

Experience required/Skills/Capabilities/Languages
University / College degree in finance / accounting / business / CPA
At least 5-7 years working experience in a multinational corporate environment with strong exposure in tax accounting and tax compliance, preferably in APAC markets
Experience in tax accounting and GL reconciliations are a must
Internal / external audit experience and/or SOX is an advantage
Experience with Shared services process activities is an advantage
Capable of working in a deadline-driven environment
Experience of working in a multi-national financial environment
Hard working personality, flexibility for adopting to change with positive attitude
Excellent communication skills and able to build strong relationships with operational staff and stakeholders
Strong risk management skills, ability to follow-up/flag potential issues
Relevant experience with SAP FI /CO COPA modules
About the Role
The purpose of this role is to ensure that the markets' Tax Compliance processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently (utilizing automation) and on time and the surrounding internal control procedures, legislative requirements are strictly adhered to.
The role will support the implementation and ensure ongoing operation of the Global Tax processes, controls and automation tools under the new Tax Operating model for markets in scope. The role will actively support the global tax projects and advisory topics as well as will be the tax capability building for the respective regions/markets.
Ensuring that complex direct and indirect taxes and connected supplementary returns are prepared according to the global standard process and controls, local DTPs, on time and utilizing automation tools where applicable;
Provides the regional tax technical knowledge required for preparing the in-scope statutory direct and indirect tax returns and the related tax journal entry posting and GL reconciliation;
Supervises regional Tax Compliance team for smooth compliance operation and issue resolution;
Collaborates with Tax Business Partners to ensure processes and activities of the Tax Compliance Function can be excellently executed;
Leads the tax compliance processes and initiatives for the Japan market;
Actively managing and coordinating tax-related document retention for your markets;
To take responsibility for the day-to-day tasks required;
Supporting the new controls and KPI report implementation (Tax calendar review), monitoring the implemented KPIs, supporting investigation of the root-cause or errors and working with end-to-end processes to improve KPIs;
Promptly responding to market queries in respect of markets in her/his responsibility and supporting tax leaders, tax managers in non-routine questions, global projects, and during tax audits in her/his competency;
Providing training and any other kinds of technical support to the Tax Compliance teams and to other departments;
Prepare quality reconciliations through deep understanding of the figures supported, reported
Supports the collation, organization and provision of information to tax authorities where relevant to ensure timely resolution of open issues;
Identifies and drives process efficiencies and standardization opportunities, working in strategic partnership with the Process Governance Director/FC Governance on implementations and Tax Technology teams;
Pro-actively supports internal projects to facilitate the ongoing transformation and improvement of Company's Global Tax function (including providing relevant information, answering ad hoc requests and suggesting alternative ways of working);
Acts as a back-up for his/her Manager in relation to technical aspects;
Acts as a coach, trainer of team members both from a technical and people management perspective and supports return preparation process;
Is responsible for building a close relationship with key and senior stakeholders within Global Tax, in company's markets, Global and Regional Supply Leaders, other functional teams of GDBS shared services in Budapest and Bangalore as well as Tax authorities, external and internal advisors.
To ensure that financial processes are undertaken accurately, efficiently, on time and that the surrounding internal control procedures are strictly adhered to in line with CARM processes