Head of Tax Operations

Orsted Asia Pacific; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Orsted Asia Pacific in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a senior Tax Operations leader to transform Global Tax Operations by embedding governance, enhancing compliance, and simplifying complexity across APAC. You will lead process optimization and automation, oversee indirect tax reporting, and ensure timely submissions with local tax teams while building a compliant, scalable operating model.

Fluency in Mandarin to support APAC, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic leadership to drive

Qualifications

• Technical accounting, tax or audit background.
• Experience with local financial statements and audits.
• Strong capability in operational excellence & process optimisation.
• Ability to partner with cross-functional and regional stakeholders.
• Experience leading global teams and transformations, including centralised operating models.
• Indirect tax expertise across multiple jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee Tax Operations team across jurisdictions.
• Design and implement governance frameworks, strengthening controls and risk management.
• Drive process optimisation and automation to scale tax operations.
• Ensure accurate reporting submissions with local tax teams across regions.
• Lead a global team transforming to a centralised operating hub.
• Mandarin fluency to handle APAC region.

Skills

Indirect Tax

Governance

Process Optimisation

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Accounting or Tax qualification

Tools

S/4HANA

ERP systems

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 indirext 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
• are fluent in speak, read & write in Mandarin to handling APAC region.

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.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us

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

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position