At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
Medtronic’s Tax Department consists of over 100 tax professionals and support personnel located in different locations in the United States (U.S) and six different locations outside the U.S. The Tax Department is broken down into seven major groups: Reporting & Tax Accounting, Compliance, M&A and Tax Planning, Audits & Controversy, Transfer Pricing and International Taxes. This position reports into the International Tax Senior Manager located in Singapore. Our APAC Tax Team members take pride in their ability to think dynamically and help solve unique tax challenges for our business partners. If you are interested in becoming a part of this strong and diverse team, consider applying for this great career opportunity.
In this role, the Tax Accountant, Asia Pacific (APAC), will have responsibility over designated countries’ income tax compliance (managing an outsourced provider), audits, and tax planning. In addition, this person will have responsibility over selected APAC tax region projects as well as assist the Merger & Acquisition (M&A) Tax group with APAC M&A (and joint venture) deals, APAC acquisition integrations and divestitures. This position will require delivering technical analysis on various APAC regional and global projects, researching complex tax related issues and work in collaboration with other persons in the Tax Department, Controllers, Finance, Treasury, Legal and business stakeholders. You will report to and in addition to the above responsibilities, provide support to the Senior Tax Manager, APAC, on various APAC related income tax matters.
Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Providing support to the wider Corporate Tax team on all internal quarterly tax reporting matters (e.g. FIN 48 positions, income tax rates, withholding tax rates, tax holiday checklist, tax audit log, thin capitalization review, evaluation of valuation allowances, etc.); including analyses for the APAC region;
- Support in the reviewing of all corporate income tax returns and payment requests for entities prepared either by local Controllers or external service providers;
- Providing support to the APAC Team on all income tax queries, income tax audits and relationships with local tax authorities;
- Monitoring changes in local tax legislation, rulings, regulations and litigation;
- Support the APAC team on requests by APAC business partners on technical tax considerations and applicability to MDT; and
- Providing implementation support for any regional or global projects
Other Responsibilities:
- Support to the Corporate Tax Team on all internal quarterly tax reporting
- Support to APAC Controllers on tax provisions and deferred income taxes;
- Support regional and global tax, finance, business and other non-tax led projects; and
- Proactively identify income tax issues and support developing tax strategies.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
Must Have:
- Bachelor’s in Accountancy
- Minimum 2 years of international corporate income tax experience
Your Profile:
- International tax experience
- Strong oral and written English language skills
- Working knowledge of accounting skills
- Proactive and eager to learn
- Energetic with an enthusiastic, detailed oriented and hands-on approach
- Team player – ability to work well in a dynamic environment
- Strong analytical and communication skills
What We Offer
We recognize the personal worth of employees by providing an employment framework that allows personal satisfaction in work accomplished, security, advancement opportunity, and means to share in the company's success. We believe in rewarding our staff with a complete package of benefits designed to support them at every career and life stage. As a result, our employees have access to the following benefits, to name a few:
- Our global well-being program supports your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.
- Medtronic Employee Assistance Program offers confidential support and resources to build and enhance employee and organizational resilience, productivity, teamwork and psychologically healthy workplaces.
- Various insurance benefits include Inpatient and Outpatient Medical Insurance, Life, Disability and Accident Insurance.
- We have generous employee referral programs, employees stock purchase plan, leave benefits, and more
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
About Medtronic
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
