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Manager, Tax

Publicis Groupe (Pathum Wan, Bangkok City, Thailand)
Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭
Founded in 1926 by Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, today Publicis Groupe is the second largest communications group in the world and a leader in marketing, communication, and digital business transformation, led by Arthur Sadoun, the third CEO in its history. Publicis Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation. Publicis Groupe is a privileged partner in its clients’ transformation to enhance personalisation at scale. The Groupe relies on ten expertise concentrated within four main activities: Communication, Media, Data and Technology. Through a unified and fluid organisation, its clients have a facilitated access to all its expertise in every market. Present in over 100 countries, Publicis Groupe employs around 98,000 professionals.

About this position

Publicis Re:Sources is seeking a Manager, Tax to oversee tax planning, reporting, and compliance for Thailand tax entities, ensuring effective tax management and optimization.

Responsibilities

The key accountabilities are, but not limited to:
• Tax Planning: management, anticipation and optimization of the Thailand tax entities effective tax rate
• Be a force of proposal for Thailand tax planning and tax optimization, providing tax planning opportunities advice to the business units and corporate tax department
• Involvement in Group and Company re-organizations, acquisitions, reduction of legal entities, and disposals, tax aspects thereof (if applicable)
• Planning and developing new policies and procedures in response to changing corporate initiatives
• Close liaison with corporate tax function re: international tax planning work and foreign aspects of Thailand tax planning
• Monitoring Tax Refund and proposing actions
• Dividend planning
• Optimization of tax cash flow
• Identify, quantify and communicate tax-planning strategies for all entities, including researching and developing the most tax efficient action plan and/or ownership structure.
• Involvement in tax aspects in relation to financing of the Thailand Group, monitoring thin capitalization
• Management of transfer pricing issues within Thailand as well as with entities in other countries
• Follow up of the new tax legislation and proposal for tax optimization or tax refunds

Tax Reporting/Tax Filing :
• Computation of tax accruals for monthly and annual financial reporting (actual, annual budget and forecast), ensuring correct tax reporting for both local financials as well as corporate reporting
• Work closely with the Chief Accounting Officer and Managing Director
• Responsibility for completion and submission of monthly, semi-monthly, and annual tax returns and reports.
• Consultancy function for output tax prepared by Collections/Billings Teams
• Monitoring tax groups and filing of the consolidated tax return (if applicable) as well as calculating the group relief in forecasts and annual financial reporting
• Ensuring that all filing requirements are completed on a timely and accurate basis.

Tax Compliance:
• Ensuring relevant documentation is completed, procedures in place to ensure compliance with local regulations as well as Publicis Groupe policies
• Following and justifying the deferred taxes in the Thailand entities
• Following tax reserves and approving these with APAC/Group Tax Director

Requirements

Qualifications
• Experience of at least 7 years, part of it being with a multinational group and preferably also with a law/accounting firm.
• Knowledge of tax law and regulations, practice and procedures.
• Strong knowledge of accounting and finance.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Fluent English.
• Ability to develop creative, defensible, advantageous tax results within the boundaries of tax laws.