Job Description

Role Purpose:

Provide high-quality regional tax operations and compliance support across AMEA & JANZ, spanning indirect tax, withholding tax and corporate tax compliance. The role enables accurate, timely and controlled tax reporting; supports local entities and regional tax leadership in meeting statutory obligations; and strengthens tax governance, data quality, process standardization and audit readiness.

The role works within Group Tax policies, Global Syngenta Standards (GSM), applicable local legislation and approved tax-control frameworks. It does not replace local legal accountability or external adviser responsibilities, but coordinates, prepares, reviews and escalates matters to enable compliant local execution.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Indirect Tax Compliance and Operations

- Manage and support VAT/GST, sales tax, customs-related and other indirect tax compliance activities for assigned entities, including return preparation, review support, filings, payments, reconciliations and statutory reporting.
- Support accurate indirect tax accounting, input-tax-credit / refund monitoring, tax-code validation and reconciliation of tax returns to general ledger, sub-ledger and source data.
- Identify recurring compliance issues, data gaps and process-control failures; coordinate remediation with Finance Operations, business teams, IT and local tax contacts.
- Support indirect tax registrations, de-registrations, periodic reporting and local authority correspondence, under the direction of the responsible tax manager.

2. Withholding Tax and Corporate Tax Compliance Support

- Support country teams and regional tax leadership with corporate income tax compliance calendars, tax-return data collection, computations and filing coordination for assigned entities.
- Prepare or review recurring tax compliance workpapers, including taxable-income bridges, tax adjustments, withholding tax support,



tax-payment schedules and supporting reconciliations, in accordance with local requirements and defined review protocols.
- Support quarterly and annual tax accounting activities, including current tax, deferred tax data inputs, effective tax rate analysis, tax provision support and balance-sheet reconciliations in partnership with Finance, Accounting and external advisers.
- Coordinate the timely collection, validation and retention of documentation required for local corporate tax returns, statutory accounts and tax disclosures.
- Monitor filing, payment and reporting deadlines; maintain a regional compliance tracker; and promptly escalate late, incomplete or high-risk items.

3. Governance, Controls and Risk Management

- Operate and continuously improve a consistent regional tax compliance calendar, evidence repository, review checklist and issue/escalation log across AMEA & JANZ.
- Implement Group Tax policies, regional tax frameworks, standard operating procedures (SOPs), process maps, risk-control matrices and desk-level instructions.
- Perform data-quality and completeness checks, maintain auditable support for key tax positions and ensure documentation is retained in accordance with internal and local requirements.
- Escalate material tax exposures, uncertain positions, significant filing delays, control deficiencies and changes in local legislation to regional tax leadership without delay.

4. Audit, Assessment and Advisory Support

- Coordinate information gathering and prepare supporting schedules for tax audits, assessments,



investigations and statutory/external audits across direct and indirect taxes.
- Maintain audit trackers, manage document requests and support timely, consistent responses in collaboration with local finance teams, Group Tax, legal teams and external advisers.
- Support implementation of agreed remediation actions arising from audits, assessments, internal controls testing or process reviews.

5. Process Excellence, Digital Enablement and Stakeholder Engagement

- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and automate tax compliance processes, including use of SAP data, Excel, Power Query, workflow tools and approved AI/digital solutions.
- Support system and process change initiatives by documenting tax requirements, testing impacts, validating master data and communicating revised tax procedures.
- Prepare regional dashboards, compliance status reports, risk summaries and management presentations for Group Tax and Finance leadership.
- Deliver practical training and regulatory-update sessions to finance and business stakeholders, promoting a consistent culture of tax compliance and timely escalation.

Critical Success Factors and Key Challenges

- Delivering complete, accurate and timely tax compliance across diverse jurisdictions, tax systems, languages and statutory calendars.
- Balancing regional standardisation with country-specific legal requirements, business models and operating realities.
- Translating high-volume finance and operational data into reliable tax reporting and defensible audit evidence.
- Building constructive working relationships with finance, business, IT, shared services, local management, external advisers and tax authorities.
- Prioritising competing tax, statutory-close and business deadlines while maintaining transparent issue ownership and escalation.
- Driving sustainable process improvements without weakening controls or local accountability.

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