Senior In-house Tax - Global Trading Group

Our client is a large, privately held, Singapore-headquartered resource-based manufacturing and trading group looking to hire a senior in-house tax professional to lead the tax function for one of its business groups.

This is a hands-on senior tax mandate sitting close to the business, covering international tax, transfer pricing, and cross-border structuring across a complex global manufacturing and trading footprint. The role would suit a technical tax operator who wants genuine structuring work, direct impact on the group's effective tax rate, and real autonomy, rather than a layered leadership seat.

Responsibilities for the senior tax mandate:

• Own the full spectrum of tax matters for one of the group's business groups, operating as a hands-on individual contributor.
• Lead international tax planning, tax optimisation and structuring across HQ and trading-hub models.
• Drive effective tax rate (ETR) improvement through tax structuring initiatives across a multi-jurisdiction footprint.
• Manage transfer pricing end to end, including documentation, policy implementation, and intercompany arrangements.
• Handle tax controversy, including transfer pricing disputes and dealings with tax authorities.
• Advise the business on cross-border transactions, trading flows, and new business initiatives from a tax perspective.
• Ensure compliance across direct and indirect tax obligations in the jurisdictions where the business group operates.
• Partner with finance, treasury, legal and commercial teams to support broader group tax objectives.
• Strengthen tax processes, controls and governance as the business group continues to scale.

Requirements for the senior tax mandate:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, law, economics or a related field; professional tax or accounting qualification preferred.
• Strong international tax and transfer pricing expertise, ideally gained within trading, manufacturing, commodities or complex cross-border multinational environments.
• A demonstrable track record of driving ETR through tax structuring, with sizable and measurable outcomes.
• Hands-on experience handling tax controversy, particularly in transfer pricing.
• Comfortable operating as an individual contributor and managing detailed tax matters directly.
• Strong technical foundation across both direct and indirect taxation, preferably Big 4 trained.
• Exposure to HQ, trading-hub or regional structuring models would be strongly preferred.
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to translate tax technical matters into business impact.
• Detail-oriented, pragmatic, and motivated by technical ownership and structuring impact rather than title alone.

Selby Jennings is a Trading Style of Phaidon International (License number 16S8194)