Tax Principal - Asia Pacific (12 Month FTC)

This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract

The strategy of Anglo American is to secure, develop and operate a portfolio of high quality and long-life resource assets to deliver leading shareholder returns. This can be achieved through innovative practices and technologies, in the hands of our world-class people, working towards a common purpose of re-imagining mining to improve people’s lives.

The purpose of Group Tax is to preserve and grow Anglo American shareholder value through the responsible, coordinated and professional management of the Group’s tax affairs, always in compliance with the law.  The Group Tax team strives to be a world class, dynamic, flexible, empowered global tax team collaborating to contribute to the commercial success of the Group and delivering sustainable value.

Purpose

The purpose of this role is to act as 2IC, playing a lead role in supporting the AsPac Tax Lead in the delivery of tax advisory, compliance, business partnering and policy support to local businesses and does so with a global perspective, focussed on ensuring compliance with local tax requirements, operating to the Tax Governance Framework and aligning the tax profile of the Group to its global footprint including through delivery of global Group tax priorities and initiatives. The weighting of activity across tax advisory, compliance, business partnering and policy support will be depend on the needs of the business at any given time, as will the Tax Principal’s role in managing local team members. 

Key Responsibilities include

Leadership

• Create a working environment that fosters psychological safety and enables team members to thrive, individually and collectively, consistent with the Leadership Framework.
• Connect the local Group Tax team with the local business.
• Inspiring the team and shaping the tax team culture - lead by example to embed the group tax vision, values and behaviours.
• Embed as BAU the operation of the Tax Governance Framework enabling the effective identification and management of risks and lead the development of solutions and actions as required to protect value for the Group

Business Partnering

• Champion ways of working which result in strong collaboration with other parts of Group Tax as well as the local business.
• Support the development and maintenance of relationships with key personnel within the business and ensure they understand the strategy, tax risk framework and vision of Group Tax
• Understand and help the business to understand the value proposition, objectives, initiatives, delivery and resource requirements of Group Tax.
• Help to embed Group Tax as a valued partner in the local business, positioning Group Tax to have a forward looking posture through presence in relevant committees and other forums that it uses to influence and shape decision making in the local business.
• Support the creation of sustainable value through professional advice and planning in accordance with the Group’s Tax Strategy and Tax Governance Framework.
• Help to deliver the provision of tax advice on major business undertakings.

External engagement

• Help to develop and enhance relationships with tax authorities, with a view to establishing ways of working that are consistent with the ethos of Co-operative Compliance
• Monitor external developments and determine appropriate action.

Governance/ Advisory/ Risk/ Policy/ Compliance

• To support the AsPac Tax Lead in the implementation of the Board approved tax strategy and the management of the Group’s tax affairs for all local managed companies.
• Support the development of relationships with key personnel within Group Tax and the local business and ensure they understand and apply Group policies.
• Contribute towards maintenance and enhancement of relationships with tax authority personnel in relevant territories
• Ensure tax issues and changes in business are captured appropriately in global and local tax compliance and reporting.
• Responsible for working with co-source providers to manage the timely and accurate filing of tax returns in the region 
• Help to liaise with outside advisors (incl. auditors, legal, investment bankers and other advisors) to ensure proper and efficient tax planning, business partnering and solutions
• Assist with the review and updating of tax systems, procedures and policies
• Provision of advice on day-to-day tax matters in the relevant country
• Provide tax advice on business transactions
• Assist with adherence to transfer pricing policies and procedures and to ensure compliance with local transfer pricing regulations including master file, local file and country-by-country obligations.
• Support tax audits, disputes and tax litigation within the region.
• Evaluate, assess and manage the in-country tax risk in line with the Ango Tax Risk Management Policy
• Raise awareness of issues within the group in and effectively communicate tax issues to management
• End-to-end management of all uncertain tax positions.
• Maintain a tax policy framework in line with the Anglo guidelines.
• Support the analysis of changes to regimes as the result of significant multilateral policy changes on Global basis and advice on the implication for the Group
• Monitor and communicate legislative changes and practice to the wider tax team and business as appropriate

People / Team

• Support the AsPac Tax Lead in building an effective team that works collaboratively with each other and with other teams to achieve business goals and create sustainable value.

People / Leadership

• Demonstrate behaviour in line with the Group’s values, standards and a professional workplace.
• Participate as an effective team member in working collaboratively with your leader, peers and relevant others (including from other teams) to achieve business goals
• Contribute to the broader business by working with others in such a way that it optimises the overall business results, rather than just your team’s

Financial

• Identify any opportunities for improved cost management and either address these, or raise them with your manager as appropriate
• Assist in the management of consulting spend and delivering sustainable value by delivering efficiencies in terms of the value received in comparison to the amount of money spent

Work Processes

• Fully understand the policies, processes and systems which apply to your work
• Identify any issues around these that interfere with your ability to complete work or meet the plan / strategy.
• For processes within your authority, make the required changes. For others, escalate these issues to seek action and / or look for alternative solutions