Tax Asst. Manager

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate tax audits, examinations, and tax authority inquiries across multiple legal entities in Indonesia.

• Prepare, review, and defend responses to tax audits, SP2DK, and other tax authority requests.
  Manage objection, appeal, lawsuit, and judicial review processes.

• Develop technical tax arguments and dispute defense strategies to support the company's tax positions.

• Evaluate audit findings and tax assessments, including financial and operational impacts.

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to obtain supporting documents and explanations required during audits and disputes.

• Monitor dispute timelines and ensure timely submission of all required documents.

• Oversee preparation and review of transfer pricing documentation and related analyses.

• Support transfer pricing audit defense and dispute resolution related to related-party transactions.

• Monitor regulatory developments and assess their impact on ongoing disputes and business operations.

• Provide technical tax analysis and recommendations on complex tax matters.

• Ensure tax positions are properly documented and defensible.

• Identify, assess, document, and mitigate tax risks across the organization.

• Conduct tax diagnostic reviews and risk assessments.

• Evaluate tax implications of business initiatives, financing arrangements, restructurings, and commercial transactions.

• Support management in assessing tax exposures and potential contingencies.

• Manage relationships with external tax advisors, consultants, and legal counsel.

• Serve as the primary coordinator with Indonesian tax authorities for audit and dispute matters.

• Lead communications, negotiations, and discussions with tax authorities during audits and disputes.

• Build and maintain professional relationships with tax office stakeholders.

• Facilitate constructive engagement to support resolution of complex tax issues.

• Provide regular updates to management regarding tax audits, disputes, risks, and potential exposures.

• Maintain proper documentation and audit trails for all tax dispute cases.

• Support the development and enhancement of tax policies, procedures, and governance frameworks related to tax risk and dispute management.

• Drive continuous improvement and standardization of tax audit and dispute management processes.
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Taxation, Finance, or a related field;

• 7–10 years of relevant tax experience, with at least 3–5 years of hands-on experience in tax audits, tax disputes, and tax controversy matters.

• Proven experience handling tax audits/examinations, SP2DK, objections, appeals, lawsuits, and/or judicial reviews (Peninjauan Kembali/PK).

• Strong knowledge of Indonesian tax regulations and practices, including General Tax Provisions (KUP), Corporate Income Tax, VAT, tax dispute procedures, and transfer pricing regulations.

• Demonstrated ability to develop technical tax positions, tax arguments, dispute strategies, and responses to tax audit findings and tax authority inquiries.

• Experience in transfer pricing documentation, related-party transactions, transfer pricing analysis, and transfer pricing audit/dispute defense.

• Strong capability in tax risk assessment, tax diagnostic reviews, tax exposure analysis, and tax contingency assessment.

• Good understanding of the tax implications of business restructurings, financing arrangements, commercial transactions, and other corporate initiatives.

• Proven experience in dealing and coordinating with Indonesian tax authorities (DJP/KPP), external tax advisors, consultants, and legal counsel.

• Strong negotiation, communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills, particularly in handling complex tax matters and disputes.

• Ability to manage and coordinate multiple tax dispute cases across multiple legal entities, including case timelines, submissions, supporting documentation, and follow-up actions.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, with excellent attention to detail and documentation discipline.

• Ability to prepare and present tax exposure, dispute status, risk assessments, and recommendations to senior management.

• Strong proficiency in English.