Tax Manager
Location: Bukit Mertajam, Penang
What you’ll be doing
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of tax professionals, strengthening technical expertise, leadership capabilities, and overall team performance.
- Manage a diverse portfolio of corporate and individual clients, overseeing tax engagements from planning and compliance through to completion.
- Review tax computations, returns, and statutory filings to ensure accuracy, quality, and timely submission in accordance with Malaysian tax laws and regulatory requirements.
- Monitor key compliance deadlines and proactively identify potential tax risks, exposures, and technical issues, escalating significant matters to Directors where appropriate.
- Provide support on tax advisory engagements covering tax planning and structuring, tax incentives, cross-border transactions, stamp duty, and SST matters.
- Assist with tax audits, investigations, and dispute resolution, including correspondence and liaison with the relevant tax authorities.
- Conduct tax research and analysis and contribute to the preparation of technical reports, advisory papers, and other client deliverables.
- Oversee engagement timelines, budgets, resources, and deliverables to ensure efficient execution and consistently high standards of service.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships by understanding clients’ businesses and objectives, communicating effectively, and providing practical and commercially relevant tax solutions.
- Collaborate with internal teams across service lines to deliver integrated and value-added solutions to clients.
- Keep up to date with changes in tax legislation, regulations, and industry developments, assessing their potential impact on clients and engagements.
- Contribute to business development by strengthening existing client relationships, identifying cross-selling and new business opportunities, and expanding the firm’s tax services portfolio.
- Contribute ideas and initiatives to enhance tax service delivery, leverage technology, improve operational efficiency, and build a more scalable and sustainable tax practice.
- Develop commercial acumen and leadership capabilities, with a clear pathway toward greater management responsibility and potential progression into a key leadership position, including a future Tax Partner role within the Group.
We are looking for individual who is:
- Professionally qualified or holds a degree in Accounting/Finance/Taxation.
- Has 5+ years of tax experience, including management/team leadership experience.
- Candidates currently working as an Assistant Tax Manager or Tax Supervisor, with extensive experience in the semiconductor and manufacturing industries, are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Strong technically, but equally strong in business acumen and commercial thinking.
- Confident in communicating with clients and building long-term relationships.
- Curious, proactive, entrepreneurial and hungry to grow.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: RM10,000.00 - RM13,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person