Compliance & Tax Director

General Overview

Functional Area:  Finance (FIN)
Career Stream:  Finance (FIN)
Role:  Manager 3 (MG3)
Job Title:  Finance Manager 3
Job Code:  MG3-FIN
Job Level:  Level 11
Direct/Indirect Indicator:  Indirect

Summary

Reporting hierarchy:

The Compliance & Tax Director -> Site Controller 

The Compliance & Tax Director is responsible for statutory & GAAP reporting, legal compliance, internal Controls and tax management for the company. This role involves ensuring that the company adheres to all financial regulations and tax laws, managing statutory audits, and leading finance compliance matters. This role will interact with external institutions such as Revenue and Customs, BOI, Banks. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in finance and accounting, excellent analytical skills, and a good understanding of legal and tax frameworks.  (#li-jr1#)

Key Responsibilities 1:

• This position will front all interactions with External autorities around Tax, BOI, Banks and other Stat/ Legislative authorites. 
• This position will be responsible for Stat, Tax and US GAAP compliance for all legal entities within the Thailand & Laos ownership.
• In partnership with Corporate tax and Tax Service provider, the position will lead the Tax Optimization and Defense strategy for the company (this include Transfer pricing polocies, legal & tax models/ strucures, maximizing BOI incentives working with BOI).
• In partnership with Region and Corporate Accounting teams, optimize KPMG testwork and audits via better engagement/ communiation, processess and protocols. Ensure minimum audit findings.
• Provide Technical & Operational accounting guidance in partnership with region & Corporate accounting teams. Identify gap area from an accounting literature standpoint and work with the aforementioned teams to enhance/ update guidance to changing business needs.
• Enhance and beef up internal controls - finance and Finance/ Ops internal controls. Develop and implement internal controls and procedure to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Enable high quality balance sheet risk assessments and reviews through proactive ownership & control. Enhance blaackline account reconciliation quality to enable risk management & mitigation.
• Oversee treasury areas in partnership with Corporate treasury team - accounting, hedging in hedge effectiveness, drive the strategy around hedging, enable forecast accuracy.
• Ensure compliance with all statutory reporting requirements, including the preparation and submission of financial statements and reports.
• Manage and coordinate statutory audits, providing necessary documentation and information to audits.

Key Responsibility 2

• Corporate Secretary support - support to provide scope and direction to Corp Secretary in working with Corporate Legal.
• Develop mechanism to monitor changes in financial regulations and tax laws, and proactively highlight impacts and actions required to comply and highlight impact.
• Develop reporting cadance on compliance and tax issues.
• Conduct regular reviews of the company's financial practices to identify and mitigate compliance risks. Including:
  • Tax fillings & internal tax audit
  • Regulatory compliance reviews (registrations, license, permits)
  • Bank signatories & regulations
  • Vendor & Custommer Contracts review
• Document financial processes and document desktop procedures for knowledge sharing and clear guidelines available for all team members are in place. Further develop and optimize this documentations, assuring the application of best practices in compliance with company's internal control framework.
• Provide training, support to & mentor finance and accounting staff on compliance and tax matters.

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA or equivalent certification preferred.
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in finance or accounting, with a focus on statutory reporting, legal compliance, and tax.
• Experience with a major audit firm (e.g., Big Four: Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG) is highly desirable.
• Experience leading teams will be valuable.
• Strong knowledge of financial accounting/ regulations, accounting literature and tax principles.
• Proficiency in accounting software and Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). Proficiency in SAP will be valuable.
• Analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Communication and interpersonal skills