Region Tax Manager Africa Levante

About the Role:

The Region Tax Manager – Africa Levante is responsible for overseeing and managing direct and indirect tax matters across the Africa Levante region, ensuring compliance with applicable tax regulations, Group Tax policies and internal standards.Acting as the key tax point of reference for the region, the role provides strategic and operational tax support to business and Finance stakeholders, while proactively identifying and managing tax risks, opportunities and areas for process improvement.The role operates in close coordination with the Area Tax Manager APAC-MEA, Region Finance leadership, Local Finance teams and Group Tax, ensuring consistent application of Group tax principles and effective management of tax matters across the regional perimeter.

Main Responsibilities:

• Oversee direct and indirect tax matters across the Africa Levante region, including corporate income tax, withholding tax, VAT/GST, customs-related tax matters and other relevant local tax obligations.
• Ensure timely and accurate tax compliance across the region, including tax returns, payments, filings and reporting obligations, coordinating effectively with Local Finance teams and external tax advisors.
• Provide tax advice and support to business operations and strategic initiatives, including commercial activities, supply chain projects, intercompany transactions and other regional business developments, identifying potential tax implications and recommending pragmatic solutions.
• Monitor tax legislative and regulatory developments across the region, assessing their potential impact on the business and ensuring timely implementation of required actions.
• Coordinate and support tax audits, enquiries and disputes, managing interactions with local tax authorities and external advisors and ensuring a consistent and appropriate defense strategy.
• Manage transfer pricing matters across the regional perimeter, including local country documentation, intercompany charges, benchmarking activities and alignment with Group Transfer Pricing policies.
• Contribute to tax risk management, internal controls and governance processes, ensuring consistent implementation of Group Tax policies, procedures and standards across the region.
• Act as the key regional interface between Group and Area Tax, Region Finance leadership, Local Finance teams and external advisors, ensuring alignment on tax positions, effective cross-border coordination and timely escalation of material tax matters.
• Oversee customs audits and litigation, including the management of relevant authorizations, certifications and guarantee requests, coordinating with internal stakeholders, external advisors and competent authorities as required.
• Support the appropriate customs classification of goods, identifying applicable customs codes based on Group-defined classifications and ensuring consistency with relevant local customs requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve tax processes, controls and ways of working across the region, promoting greater standardization, efficiency and consistency across jurisdictions.

About You:

• Degree in Tax, Law, Finance, Economics or a related discipline. Relevant tax or accounting professional qualifications are considered an advantage.
• 8-12 years of relevant professional experience in taxation, with strong exposure to both direct and indirect tax matters. 
• Strong technical expertise across corporate income tax, VAT/GST, withholding tax, transfer pricing, tax audits, customs and tax risk management. Moreover, solid experience operating within multi-country and multi-jurisdictional tax environments, ideally gained in a multinational organization, professional services firm and/or regional tax role.
• Proven ability to manage complex tax matters across emerging markets, including jurisdictions characterized by evolving tax legislation and practices.
• Experience managing tax audits, disputes and interactions with tax authorities, with the ability to assess tax exposures and define appropriate courses of action.
• Strong project management and coordination capabilities, with experience managing multiple jurisdictions, stakeholders, external advisors and Local Finance teams simultaneously.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess tax risks and business implications in a pragmatic and commercially oriented manner.
• Ability to communicate complex tax matters clearly and effectively to non-tax stakeholders and senior management, translating technical requirements into practical business implications.
• Strong influencing and relationship-building skills, with the ability to establish trusted relationships across Finance, Tax, Legal and business functions in a complex and multicultural environment.
• High level of ownership, accountability and attention to detail, combined with a proactive mindset and the ability to anticipate issues and propose practical solutions.
• Ability and willingness to travel frequently across the Africa Levante region to support Local teams, business stakeholders and advisors and to oversee significant tax audits, authority interactions and other key tax matters.
• Fluent English and French. Knowledge of Arabic or other languages relevant to the region is considered an advantage.

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About Ferrero:

Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world’s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com.

DE&I at Ferrero:

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.
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