Corporate Tax Advisory (Financial Services) - Senior Manager
Executive recruitment company Monroe Consulting Group Malaysia's Professional & Finance/BFSI Division is recruiting on behalf of a client for a Senior Manager - Corporate Tax Advisory (Financial Service) position. Job Summary Our client's people in tax services focus on providing advice and guidance to clients on tax planning, compliance, and strategy. These individuals help businesses navigate complex tax regulations and optimise their tax positions. Those in tax compliance will focus on validating clients' compliance with tax laws and regulations. You will review and analyse financial data, prepare and file tax returns, and assist businesses in meeting their tax obligations while minimising risks of non-compliance. Key Responsibilities - Tax Compliance - Ensure accurate and timely filing of all tax returns, including corporate income tax and other applicable taxes, to the tax authorities. You will also contribute technical insights to business tax compliance engagements. - Tax Planning - Develop and implement tax strategies to optimize the company's tax position, minimize tax liabilities, and manage risks. - Advisory - Provide expert advice on tax implications for business transactions, mergers, acquisitions, investment structure planning, incentive applications, inbound/outbound investment advisory and new business ventures. - Reporting - Prepare and review tax provision calculations for financial statements and ensure proper accounting for all tax-related items. - Regulatory Monitoring - Keep abreast of changes in tax laws and regulations, and assess the impact on the company's tax position. - Collaboration - Work closely with internal stakeholders, including finance, legal, and business units, to ensure alignment on tax-related matters. - Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member's unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. - With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. - You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same. - Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system. - Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion. - Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables. - Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same. - Effectively mentor others. - Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members. - Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate. - Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards, the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements. Key Requirements - Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field and/or professional accounting qualification. - Strong Financial Service tax technical knowledge with at least 10 years' working experience in tax compliance and consultancy, ideally in a professional services organization. - Excellent client handling and team management skills. - People management and project management experience. - A good level of commercial awareness. - Possess good spoken and written skills. - Self-motivated and proactive with contributions to business development efforts as part of securing new clients.
