Head of Tax Operations

Orsted (Germany); Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 320,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Ørsted seeks a senior Tax Operations leader in Kuala Lumpur to drive governance, optimize processes, and ensure compliant, timely indirect tax reporting across regions. You will partner with global tax, finance, and business teams to build scalable, future-ready operations.

Success requires a solid accounting/tax/audit background, strong leadership, and Mandarin fluency to coordinate with APAC teams. This role offers a centralised hub transformation within a multinational setting.

Qualifications

• Technical accounting, tax or audit background with practical experience in local financial statements and audits.
• Experience in end-to-end audit cycles and governance development.
• Ability to drive process optimization and scalable tax operations.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with regional stakeholders.
• Mandarin language proficiency for APAC region.

Responsibilities

• Lead Tax Operations team across jurisdictions to ensure regulatory compliance and governance.
• Design and implement robust governance frameworks for tax processes and controls.
• Drive process optimization and automation to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Coordinate with local tax teams for accurate, on-time indirect tax reporting.
• Transform operations into a centralized hub with global consistency.

Skills

Technical accounting

Tax knowledge

Audit background

Operational excellence

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Indirect tax expertise

Mandarin proficiency

Education

Accounting/Tax/Audit degree

Tools

S/4HANA

Job description

Join us in this role where you’ll transform Global Tax Operations team - embedding best-in-class governance, enhancing compliance, and simplifying complexity. You’ll lead process optimization and oversee support the submission of indirect tax reporting, ensuring consistency, control, and efficiency across regions.

Welcome to Global Financial Services You’ll be part of Tax Operations team where you, together with your colleagues, will collaborate with a global network of tax, finance, and business to drive consistent, high-quality outcomes. Together, you’ll strengthen governance frameworks, optimise processes, and ensure intercompany transactions are done on-time with proper documentation following local requirements by building a compliant, efficient, and future-ready operating model.

As a team, we collaborate globally to simplify complexity, strengthen compliance, and deliver efficient, high-quality outcomes.

You’ll play an important role in:

• lead and oversee Tax Operations team, ensuring adherence to diverse regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions
• design and implement robust process governance frameworks, strengthening controls, risk management, and consistency in operations
• drive process optimisation and automation, improving efficiency and scalability of tax operations
• ensure accurate reporting submission with strong collaboration with local tax teams across regions
• lead a global team, driving the transformation of a centralised operational hub.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have a technical accounting, tax or audit background with practical experience of working local financial statements and in/with audit and managing the end-to-end audit cycle
• have strong capability in operational excellence & process optimisation to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and build scalable, high-performing tax operations
• possess proven ability to partner with cross-functional and regional stakeholders, influencing decisions and aligning global objectives
• are strong in strategic leadership and transformation to lead global teams and drive large-scale transformation initiatives, including centralised operating models and system implementations (e.g. S/4HANA)
• have indirect tax expertise and deep knowledge of global indirect tax regulations, compliance, and governance across multiple jurisdictions
• are fluent in speak, read & write in Mandarin to handling APAC region.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [e-mail].