Tax Professional

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM is looking for an experienced tax professional with a strong background in Philippine Taxes. The Tax professional will report to the Country Tax Manager. The position is based in Metro Manila.

As Tax Professional the successful candidate will assist in managing all aspects of IBM Philippines and other Philippine subsidiaries of IBM’s tax operations and act as a trusted business advisor to the IBM business lines. This includes assisting in overseeing tax compliance tax controversy transfer pricing tax planning and tax advisory support to IBM Philippines’ its subsidiaries and affiliates as well as its Business Units and Enterprise Support Functions. The ideal candidate is a team player has initiative to create and implement tax plans and works with the various functions and leadership teams to identify opportunities for process improvement and potential areas of risk.

The Tax Professional will be responsible for the following:

• Ensuring IBM Philippines’ compliance with all taxation laws and regulations including timely and accurate tax filings and payments (i.e. corporate income tax withholding tax indirect tax as well as local taxes) and ensuring appropriate tax positions are adopted.
• Assistance in tax Authority relationship management including managing and handling of tax audits preparing responses and liaising with tax authorities on relevant tax issues as required.
• Ensuring accurate recording of Income Taxes and Indirect Taxes for USGAAP and local GAAP Reporting purposes.
• Providing practical tax solutions and tax advisory support to IBM Philippines’ Business Units and Enterprise Support Functions including working cross-functionally with IBM Legal Treasury Accounting Finance & Operations teams to meet IBM’s Global Tax strategic objectives.
• Assistance in managing tax legislation and controversial developments in the Philippines including ensuring legislative and judicial developments are assessed and communicated to internal stakeholders and supporting lobbying efforts.
• Find and implement opportunities for process improvement in IBM’s tax procedures.
• Assistance in researching analyzing and implementing tax planning opportunities mergers & acquisition activities and various internal reporting from IBM’s Corporate Headquarters and Global Tax Team.
• Ensuring compliance with IBM’s Tax Controls Framework and Tax Policies.
• Assistance in managing relationships with external service providers such as tax and legal advisors as required.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 5 years relevant tax experience with extensive Philippine direct and indirect tax compliance and advisory experience including managing tax compliance for multiple legal entities in-depth knowledge of Philippines corporate income taxes indirect taxes transfer pricing and a working knowledge of employment taxes.
• Candidate should have strong skills and background in tax accounting compliance & tax operations with relevant Big 4 experience. Experience in tax advocacy or in-house tax experience within a large multinational enterprise is an advantage.
• A hands-on approach self-starter with attention to detail and learning agility is required.
• Having a commercial outlook strong business acumen and an awareness of risk is required.
• Strong teaming and communication skills with a collaborative mindset is required to continuously seek opportunities for process optimization and solution implementation.
• Candidate should hold formal qualifications in Accounting / Tax or Law
• Fluent English (spoken and written).

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
As listed on the above.