Tax Manager

**Robert Half** **Talent Solutions** is currently looking for a **Tax Manager **for a permanent position based in Brussels.

**Robert Half** **Talent Solutions** is currently looking for a **Tax Manager **for a permanent position based in Brussels.

Our client is a fast growing company active in the **health sector**.

As** Tax Manager **you will be **responsible** for:

- ** Foreign presence risk mitigation**:

- Assess tax implication of new foreign opportunities pursued by our affiliates and mitigate the risk of unforeseen withholding tax on sales, permanent establishment (PE), etc;
- Capable of decrypting double tax treaties for ad hoc countries to integrate the tax aspects in preliminary business cases constructed by the Biz Dev team (and validate with advisors later);
- Assess the necessity/implication to create new foreign entities or PE acting as HUBs in foreign regions;
- Keep an updated country by country documentation of business cases as they formalize to reuse in the future;
- ** Tax base optimization**:

- Take into consideration Belgian and international tax incentives in order to reduce the effective tax rate (ETR);
- Consider tax implication on ETR of new business models on existing or new geographic areas;
- Identify tax gaps and suggest improvements to the management and business development teams;
- ** Operational transfer pricing**:

- Implement and maintain transfer pricing policies (Support services recharge, intercompany loan, intercompany rentals,) ensuring arm's length principles;
- Manage transfer pricing compliance reporting when time comes;
- ** Tax ruling management**
- Asses the need (business case - cost vs benefits) for a tax ruling to secure critical and strategic tax management decision/methodologies and defend to management;
- Manage new tax rulings end-to-end;
- ** Compliance obligations**:

- Keep an eye on regulation changes and be informed;
- Secure Corporate tax filing, VAT filings and other annual compliance filings with the support of the accounting team;
- ** FP&A and M&A activities**:

- Coordinate/lead tax due diligence procedures, optimize acquisition and divestment structures and avoid/limit tax risks. Provide tax guidance with respect to internal reorganizations when occurring;
- Responsible for the correct input of the tax positions in the accounts, in the budget, the forecasts and the 5Y-10Y plan, their documentation and the reporting within the group;
- ** Liaise with local external tax advisors for support in all the above**:

- Assess accurate budget needs in terms of external support;
- Able clearly define missions' scope, objectives, and deliverables with external advisors to control deliverables and statement of work (and avoid non added value overspends);
- Construct clear business case for ExCom for longer and more expensive missions (e.g. tax rulings).

The required **profile** for the **Tax Manager **position:

- Genuine interest in international taxation and tax implication on business development;
- Intention of being the tax architect of a growing group (from low complexity to high complexity);
- University degree in Business engineering/economics with specialization in tax (alternatively a law degree with MBA-type specialization and strong finance and tax background);
- 3-5 years of international tax experience in a global advisory company;
- 3-5 years of experience as a tax lead/manager in an international group;
- Autonomous with tax project management/lead and ability to prioritize operations;
- Business mindset - i.e. capability to link with various strategic functions in the group;
- Strong knowledge in corporate finance and accounting;
- Capability to build and maintain data models (or to learn to do so);
- Fluent in English;
- Experience with SAP is a plus.