Tax Capability Lead

JT International (Philippines), Inc.; Taguig; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

JT International (Philippines), Inc. seeks a Tax Capability Lead to drive local tax learning, build governance around changes, and bolster regulatory compliance across Philippine entities from Market to Factory and GBS.

The role focuses on capability-building, learning enablement, and practical tax knowledge transfer, ensuring readiness and effective stakeholder engagement across the tax function and business teams.

Qualifications

• University degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent.
• CPA qualification preferred.
• Background in Business Communications, Knowledge Management, HR Learning & Culture or equivalent is preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of tax experience with enablement, program coordination, governance or controls support.

Responsibilities

• Lead rollout of local tax learning initiatives and enablement programs.
• Coordinate governance, audit learnings, and compliance training materials.
• Manage training calendar, communications, and materials repository.
• Oversee Tax Change Register and readiness actions for impacted teams.
• Track tax savings, budget, and consultant spend; report to leadership.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Facilitation skills

Program/project management

Analytical/reporting skills

Knowledge management mindset

Fluent English and Filipino

Education

University degree in Finance/Accounting/Economics

CPA qualification preferred

Job description

Reporting To: Tax Manager

Duty Post: Taguig Head Office

Role Type: Individual Contributor

Internal Role Title: Tax Capability Specialist

Tax Capability Lead

This exciting role is established in response to the evolving demands of a dynamic and increasingly complex Philippine tax compliance environment. The role leads capability-building, learning enablement, and practical tax knowledge transfer across the JTI PH Global Tax team and key stakeholders, covering all Philippine entities from Market to Factory and Global Business Services (GBS). It is designed to strengthen tax compliance readiness by upskilling both tax and non-tax employees, embedding practical understanding of tax rules, audit learnings, regulatory developments, and governance expectations into day-to-day business processes.
This position supports the Philippine Tax leadership team by driving local learning rollouts, leading tax change readiness initiatives, enhancing tax knowledge management, providing visibility over tax budget and consultant spend, and tracking tax savings and key initiatives that support stronger compliance, improved controls, and more effective stakeholder engagement.

As the Tax Capability Lead, you will:

Tax Training Enablement and Local Learning Rollout

• Lead the rollout of local tax learning initiatives, leveraging the Global Tax Academy approach and available learning materials.

• Drive collaboration with governance and audit stakeholders to translate tax rules, audit learnings, and compliance standards into practical training sessions, job aids, and toolkits.

• Lead the training calendar, stakeholder communications, attendance tracking, learning materials repository, and access enablement where needed.

Local Tax Team Capability Building

• Drive capability-building for the Philippine Global Tax team by identifying training needs, shaping learning paths, and developing practical capability solutions with local and global People & Culture or L&D teams.

• Lead the consolidation of Training Needs Analysis inputs and convert priorities into actionable development plans such as courses, shadowing, coaching circles, curated learning, or other development activities.

Tax Change Monitoring and Execution Readiness

• Partner with tax governance teams to proactively monitor changes in tax legislation, jurisprudence, and related compliance requirements.

• Drive business impact assessments, stakeholder communications, training updates, process or control reminders, and readiness actions for impacted teams.

• Own and maintain a central Tax Change Register covering key changes, impacted processes, accountable owners, actions, and due dates.

Tax Budget, Consultant Spend and Vendor Coordination

• Provide structured oversight and visibility over tax budget and consultant spend to support informed decision-making by the Global Tax leadership.

• Drive consultant and vendor engagement readiness, including RFP inputs, scope templates, onboarding requirements, contract pack readiness, deliverables tracking, and utilization monitoring.

Tax Communications, Value Tracking and Record Retention Enablement

• Lead tracking and reporting of tax savings or cash impact from Philippine tax projects and initiatives.

• Drive regular tax communications to strengthen visibility and compliance awareness, including rule changes, reminders, training invites, wins, and upcoming deadlines.

• Lead improvements in record retention, audit readiness, folder structure, indexing, and evidence completeness.

• Lead tax engagement readiness for visitors, townhalls, team-building activities, mandatory training reminders, policy updates, and internal engagements.

Who we are looking for

• University degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent.

• CPA qualification is preferred.

• Background in Business Communications, Knowledge Management, HR Learning & Culture or equivalent is preferred.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in tax, with exposure to enablement, program coordination, governance or controls support, learning delivery, communications, PMO, or similar roles in a multinational environment.

• Fluent in oral and written English and Filipino.

Functional skills required

• Ability to convert technical tax inputs into clear training materials, job aids, and practical business guidance.

• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills across business functions and governance teams.

• Solid program or project management discipline, including calendar management, trackers, governance cadence, and reporting.

• Strong analytical and reporting skills, including basic finance tracking, benefits tracking, and dashboards.

• Knowledge management mindset, with strong documentation discipline, record retention structure, and content publishing capability.