Indirect Tax Senior – APAC

The Indirect Tax Senior – APAC is a hands-on execution role responsible for preparing, reconciling, and submitting indirect tax filings across the region as the APAC indirect tax shared service center is built out. The scope covers indirect tax (VAT/GST) and withholding tax compliance support, including e-invoicing compliance and implementation as jurisdictions across APAC roll out mandatory e-invoicing/e-filing regimes. This role performs the detailed technical and operational work — tax return preparation, data extraction and reconciliation, ERP tax code determination, and e-invoicing configuration — that underpins the compliance function, while working closely with the Indirect Tax Manager on process standardization and issue resolution. This position works closely with regional finance teams, and in particular with the BSC accounting team as these functions are expected to be centralized alongside indirect tax, together with procurement, logistics, and external advisors, to ensure indirect tax and withholding tax returns are prepared accurately and filed on time across multiple APAC jurisdictions. The role requires solid technical indirect tax knowledge, strong Excel and ERP data-handling skills, hands-on e-invoicing experience, and the discipline to manage recurring monthly and quarterly filing cycles across a multi-ERP, multi-country environment (SAP, Oracle, and other regional or legacy systems). The company operates in China, India, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Thailand.

Indirect Tax Return Preparation & Submission •    Prepare and file GST/VAT and other indirect tax returns for assigned APAC jurisdictions within statutory and internal deadlines. •    Extract transaction-level data from ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, and regional/legacy platforms) and compile supporting workpapers for each return. •    Apply correct tax treatment to sales, purchases, imports, exports, intercompany charges, and cross-border transactions when preparing returns. •    Perform first-level review of transaction data to identify tax coding errors, missing tax determination, or anomalies before submission. •    Complete input tax credit, blocked input tax, reverse charge, zero-rated and exempt supply calculations, and bad debt relief claims where applicable. •    Submit returns via local e-filing portals or coordinate submission with local finance teams/external advisors where local filing access is required. •    Support withholding tax (WHT) compliance within scope, including determination of applicable rates, preparation of WHT filings/certificates, and reconciliation of WHT accounts for assigned jurisdictions. •    Support e-invoicing compliance and rollout across APAC jurisdictions with mandatory e-invoicing/e-filing regimes (e.g., Malaysia e-Invoicing), including invoice data validation, transmission monitoring, and issue resolution. •    Maintain a filing calendar and tracker across all assigned countries, flagging upcoming deadlines and outstanding items proactively. •    Work closely with the BSC accounting Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) teams — as these functions are expected to be centralized within the BSC alongside indirect tax — to ensure correct tax coding at the point of transaction entry and to resolve tax-related queries on vendor and customer invoices. Reconciliation & Data Integrity •    Perform monthly reconciliation of indirect tax and WHT payable/receivable balances against filed returns and the general ledger, investigating and resolving variances. •    Maintain organized, audit-ready working papers, invoices, and supporting schedules in line with local statutory retention requirements and internal policy. •    Support month-end and quarter-end close activities related to indirect tax and WHT accounts. Systems, Data & Process Support •    Support ERP system