Regional Tax Assistant Manager / Manager

About the role

You will join Sea’s HQ Finance Tax function, supporting the tax lifecycle for the Monee and Shopee businesses across the region. The role involves ensuring compliance, managing tax risk, and driving automation initiatives.

Key responsibilities

• Support direct tax, indirect tax, and transfer pricing matters in collaboration with tax and finance teams.
• Oversee tax compliance and reporting obligations (CIT, VAT/GST, WHT, TP documentation, and other regulatory filings) to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Assist in reviewing tax provisions, effective tax rate analyses, and cash tax positions, identifying material variances and potential risks.
• Participate in tax feasibility assessments for local and regional initiatives, providing insight on tax implications.
• Design and implement tax structures and inter‑company arrangements with the Transfer Pricing team and external advisors.
• Monitor tax risks, maintain documentation of key positions, and help assess uncertain tax positions for reporting.
• Coordinate tax controversy matters, managing audits, submissions, and resolutions with local teams and advisors.
• Contribute to process‑improvement projects, enhancing documentation standards, reporting workflows, and tax automation.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or related discipline; professional qualifications such as Chartered Accountant or ACCA preferred.
• Advanced taxation qualifications or certifications are an advantage.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant tax experience, preferably in a Big 4 firm or multinational corporation.
• Strong technical knowledge of direct and indirect taxes and transfer‑pricing regulations.
• Experience handling cross‑border taxes and transfer pricing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage projects independently.

Required skills

• Corporate Income Tax (CIT) compliance
• VAT/GST reporting
• Withholding Tax (WHT) handling
• Transfer Pricing documentation and analysis
• Tax risk monitoring
• Tax controversy management
• Tax automation and process improvement