The Key purpose of this role is to be responsible for managing local tax authority interactions, responding to queries and audits, and escalating material issues to the Zone Tax Risk Management team. They also sign off on all tax compliance and reporting outputs prepared by GBS/back‑office teams, ensuring these meet global standards and local legal requirements. Additionally, the Country Manager plays a key role in supporting operational transfer pricing activities, ensuring accurate local TP implementation, documentation, and alignment with globally approved methodologies.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
First Line of Defence to Tax Authorities
- Serve as the primary local contact for tax authorities
- Manage day‑to‑day queries, audits, and information requests
- For material or sensitive matters, promptly involve the Zone Tax Risk Management team
- Maintain proactive, constructive relationships with tax authorities
Local Tax Compliance
- Review and sign off on all tax returns, filings, and payments before submission, prepared by the GBS team
- Ensure alignment with ABI’s Tax Compliance Framework and all local legal requirements
- Validate completeness and accuracy of documentation and filings
- Ensure the compliance calendar is maintained and deadlines are met
Operational Transfer Pricing
- Support local execution of operational TP processes in accordance with global methodologies
- Review TP calculations, local invoicing, and tax postings prepared by GBS
- Ensure local TP documentation is complete and audit‑ready
- Support response to TP-related queries and audits, escalating material matters to Zone
- Maintain local evidence and support for TP flows
Tax Reporting
- Review and approve monthly, quarterly, and annual tax reporting packages prepared by GBS
- Validate reconciliations, postings, and data quality
- Provide local commentary and insights to Zone Tax Operations
- Ensure alignment with global reporting standards under the One ABI Way of Tax
Tax Strategy Insights
- Partner with Zone Tax Strategy and the Zone Head of Tax Operations to provide grounded country-level insights that support the development of tax planning opportunities and the broader tax policy agenda
- Identify local legislative developments, business model changes, tax authority behaviors, and emerging risks that may require strategic response or represent potential planning opportunities
- Assess feasibility and potential impact of proposed tax planning or policy initiatives at the country level and provide structured feedback to Zone teams
- Contribute country-specific intelligence to the strategic pipeline, ensuring Zone and Global Tax have early visibility of issues and opportunities arising in the market
- Support alignment and implementation of approved tax planning initiatives and policy positions within the country
Governance, Controls & Risk Management
- Ensure full compliance with ABI’s Tax Compliance Framework, internal controls, and documentation requirements
- Maintain audit-ready documentation for all tax positions
- Identify risks proactively and escalate when needed
- Ensure that GBS execution aligns with RACI and control expectations
Support Local Tax Policy & Legislative Monitoring
- Monitor legislative and regulatory developments affecting tax
- Provide local insights to Zone Tax Policy teams
- Support implementation of global and zone tax policy initiatives locally
- Participate in industry engagements or policy forums as agreed with Zone
Cross- Functional Collaboration
- GBS/back‑office teams for execution and data integrity
- Country Finance for P&L reporting, local compliance and tax matters that impact local finance e.g. tax audits, engagements with policymakers
- Zone Tax Operations for governance and alignment
- Zone Tax Risk Management for high‑risk queries
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Taxation or other relevant degree; advanced degree preferred
- Bachelor’s in Tax, Finance, Accounting, or related discipline
- +/- 5 years of corporate tax experience, including compliance, audits, and reporting
- Experience dealing with tax authorities
- Strong knowledge of local tax legislation
- English proficiency + local language fluency
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