
Indirect Tax Accountant
- Kuala Lumpur
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Prepare tax returns and reports
- Responsible for preparing tax returns and reports for a variety of taxes, including WHT, value-added tax (VAT) and SST.
- Administer indirect tax laws
- Familiar with the laws and regulations governing indirect taxes and able to interpret these laws and regulations and apply them to the company's operations.
- Advise management on indirect tax matters:
- Able to advise management on a variety of indirect tax matters, such as tax planning, tax compliance, and tax litigation.
- Reconciliation of tax account:
- Able to maintain and perform reconciliation of tax account up-to-date.
- Developing and implementing tax strategies:
- Responsible for developing and implementing tax strategies that help the company save money on taxes.
- Support tax audits:
- Involves working with the auditor to understand the audit findings and to develop a plan to resolve any tax issues.
- Provide training to employees:
- Responsible for providing training to employees on indirect tax matters. This training may cover topics such as tax laws, tax compliance, and tax planning.
- Able to assist tax manager in ad-hoc task such as tax instalment payment
- Able to work under tight timeframes and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Able to work across multiple region with excellent written and verbal English skills
- Work closely with tax agents supporting individual countries
- Part of a bigger group of the global tax team and provide support if required
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline
- Qualified CPA (highly preferred)
- At least 3 years of commercial
- Commercial experience in telecom MNC (highly preferred)
- Experience being part of a large accounting team and work with multiple overseas locations
- Advanced level in MS Excel required, also strong in Word and Powerpoint skills
- Experience with large ERP / GL systems
- Excellent communication, time/priority management and problem solving skills
- Attention to details
- Highly adaptive in the Group’s expansion and developments
- Self-motivated and highly energetic
- Consistently demonstrate professional, positive, and approachable attitude in a multi-cultural environment
- Willing to take initiative and ownership at work