stack-infrastructure-apac-pte-ltd - Tax Director (APAC)

• Tax strategy, structuring and advisory • Lead the development and implementation of the Group’s APAC tax strategy, aligned with the Group’s commercial, investment and financing objectives. • Advise on the tax-efficient structuring of investments, development projects, acquisitions, disposals, reorganisations, financing arrangements and intercompany transactions. • Provide practical, timely advice on cross-border tax matters, including withholding taxes, permanent establishment risk, treaty access, repatriation of profits, indirect tax and transfer pricing. • Support Legal and commercial teams in reviewing contracts, customer arrangements, procurement structures and other transactions with material tax implications. • Identify tax risks and planning opportunities arising from changes in legislation, tax authority practice, business operations and new markets. • Manage external tax advisers on material advisory, structuring and transaction work, ensuring advice is commercially focused, proportionate and implemented effectively. • Tax compliance, reporting and governance • Own and oversee the regional tax compliance calendar and ensure accurate, complete and timely filing, payment and reporting across Australia, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. • Oversee corporate income tax compliance and provisioning, including current and deferred tax reporting, tax disclosures and coordination with the financial reporting and audit process. • Oversee indirect tax compliance, including GST, consumption tax, sales and service tax, stamp duty and other transaction taxes, as applicable. • Oversee employment tax compliance, including payroll taxes, fringe benefits tax, employee share plan tax matters, social security-related obligations and expatriate tax matters where relevant. • Lead the Group’s transfer pricing framework, including intercompany pricing policies, local-file/master-file documentation, country-by-country reporting where applicable, and implementation of intercompany agreements. • Establish and maintain a robust regional tax control framework, tax risk register, policies, documentation standards and governance processes. • Ensure appropriate tax accounting positions are taken, documented and supported, including uncertain tax positions and tax contingencies. • Tax authority, audit and stakeholder management • Lead tax audits, reviews, enquiries, rulings and disputes, working with local finance teams and advisers to resolve matters efficiently and protect the Group’s position. • Develop constructive working relationships with relevant tax authorities, where appropriate. • Act as the central tax contact for the CFO, senior leadership, external auditors, lenders, investors and advisers on APAC tax matters. • Present concise tax updates, material risks, cash tax forecasts and key decisions to senior management and governance forums. • Team, process and capability building • Build a scalable regional tax operating model, including clear ownership between the central tax function, country finance teams and external advisers. • Drive process improvement, automation and use of technology to improve the quality, efficiency and visibility of tax compliance and reporting. • Manage the tax budget and adviser spend across the region.