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Please note: This is not a Remote role and will require the incumbent to be based in Singapore and follow a hybrid work schedule. This is an Individual Contributor role.

As Director, Tax for ASEAN and South Pacific, the individual requires the ability to interpret, analyze and apply increasingly complex foreign tax provisions having a material impact on the Company’s ETR and EPS in a complex business environment. This position will need to work with the Operating Unit (“OU”) CFO and Leadership Team as well as OU Government Relations associates to analyze the impact in depth of commercial decisions as well as any potential legislative or regulatory changes in the region. Such analysis is used to assist them in determining the focus of their advocacy efforts. These potential legislative and regulatory changes may have a material impact on KO’s ETR and EPS. This position requires someone who is seen as a subject matter expert both inside and outside the Company, who can understand competing business priorities, and who can communicate very complex impacts and tax principles to non-subject matter experts.

What You’ll Do for Us:

Responsible for all tax matters (corporate income, VAT and other indirect taxes) for approximately 30 countries covering all countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) and countries in the South Pacific (together making up the ASP OU).  As part of such responsibility, this position will liaise with the Senior Tax Counsel, and other members of the tax team, covering such countries but will have responsibility for day-to-day tax matters in the region with a large amount of autonomy for related decisions.

Proactively coordinating with Field finance, operations, marketing and legal professionals for identifying and addressing local tax matters.  This role is, in essence, the “feet on the street” for the Senior Tax Counsel.  As such, building relationships and trust with local Field personnel is a key component of this role.

Responsible for local tax audits, both income and indirect tax as well as payroll related.  In such role, this position will work with / influence local finance / tax personnel and will also work with outside advisors in determining audit strategy and in dealing directly at times with local tax officials.

This position (along with local LEC’s) will be responsible for reviewing income tax returns and local financial statements in the countries in the geography.

With regards to indirect taxes, this role will coordinate with our central VAT team to ensure payments by local affiliates with an eye to reducing VAT exposure (or lengthy outstanding receivables) to the extent possible.

This position will work with the Senior Tax Counsel covering their region on local M&A initiatives and any local tax-related litigation.

A key contributor to addressing transfer pricing issues in the region.

Contributes to the compiling information for and submitting local country by country reports as well as assisting them in gathering and compiling requests from local tax authorities.

Assisting Senior Tax Counsel on new global product initiatives such as the roll out of new alcohol products.

Responsible for the development in tax matters of the local LEC’s who handle such tax matters in the countries for which they support. It also requires the ability to teach others outside of the Tax Department at many levels about complicated tax issues.

This position will be focused on short-, mid- and long-term strategies.  For instance, many of the issues that this position will face will be of the shorter-term day-to-day type, but they will also deal with longer term strategic matters such as the structuring of local legal entities, M&A initiatives, preparing for local tax audits and other matters.

Has responsibilities related to a large number of countries with different tax systems, dealing directly with issues that are material to the financial statements.

Qualifications & Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.

7+ years in the Consumer Products industry with responsibility for direct and indirect tax matters and managing foreign income and indirect tax controversy in the regions covered by the position.

Minimum qualification is a bachelor’s degree plus a professional accounting and/or tax qualification

Work Focus:

Build strong relationships with Field personnel across many functions to identify and address complex income and indirect tax issues arising in a business context across a wide geography of diverse countries. Manage tax audits in countries for which they are responsible.

Work on a variety of strategic projects across the geography with Senior Tax Counsel and other tax team members.

Communication Focus:

This role will need to be able to regularly communicate with KO associates across geographies and functions as well as with outside consultants who are assisting with local tax issues, audits, transfer pricing issues and local tax documentation requirements.  

This role will also need to influence, teach, and review associates across KO geographies and functions on a regular basis on a variety of income and indirect tax matters.

There will be many occasions where this role will need to communicate to all levels of KO, at times communicating information that is not consistent with the desires of the business (e.g., when what the business wants to do creates tax issues).  Such communication will require a great deal of tact while also the resolve to stand by their positions and support them with their analyses.

What can help you to be successful in the role?

Growth Behavior:

Growth Mindset: Demonstrates Curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.

Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.

Commercially Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work.

Performance Driven & Accountable: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.

Fast/Agile: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.

Empowered: Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance.

Leadership Behavior

Act Like an Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders.

Collaborate with the System, Customers and Key Stakeholders

Develops Self and Others: Develop self and support others' development to achieve their full potential.

Drive Innovation: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business.

What We Can Do For You 

Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process.

Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. We want to make our culture inevitable.

International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.

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Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.