Tax Manager APAC
Aristocrat is seeking a highly capable Tax Manager APAC to join the Group Tax team. This role offers a broad regional scope within a sophisticated multinational environment, requiring the successful candidate to partner with senior stakeholders across Finance, Legal, Treasury, Commercial, and Tax departments. The position involves helping to shape the future of a high-performing tax function while driving automation and leveraging emerging technologies to create lasting business impact.
The Tax Manager APAC will operate at a senior level within a Top 20 ASX listed company. The role provides an opportunity to learn from established processes while making an enduring and positive impact through the thoughtful adoption of new technologies and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Prepare and review corporate tax returns, associated schedules and disclosures across Australia, New Zealand, and the Asia Pacific region.
- Lead the end-to-end tax effect accounting process for the APAC region, ensuring compliance with applicable standards, legislation, and Group policies.
- Responsible for the annual Australian controlled foreign company (CFC) attribution estimates and calculations, with support from external advisers.
- Lead and review tax forecasting for the APAC region, and support Group level tax forecasting.
- Partner closely with the Group Transfer Pricing team.
- Lead and support tax audits, reviews, and enquiries, acting as the primary point of contact for Australia and New Zealand.
- Coordinate responses with regional finance teams and external advisers for other jurisdictions.
- Support the implementation of governance standards, internal controls, and other tax risk management framework improvements.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with external advisers, auditors, tax authorities, and internal business partners.
- Involvement with business initiatives, acquisitions, restructures, intercompany funding and other strategic projects requiring tax input across APAC.
- Support indirect tax compliance obligations including GST, FBT, and PAYG Withholding obligations within the region, where required.
- At least 8 years experience in corporate tax compliance and reporting gained within a Big 4 or a multinational corporate environment (required).
- Relevant tertiary qualification with CPA or CA accreditation (required).
- Strong technical knowledge of Australian corporate taxation and tax accounting, with exposure to international tax matters (required).
- Experience in Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE tax products, or similar technology (nice-to-have).
- Previous delivery of operational improvements through automation, data analytics, large language models, or other new technologies/tools (nice-to-have).
- Proven ability to manage conflicting priorities whilst consistently delivering high-quality outcomes (required).
- Demonstrated experience partnering with senior collaborators across finance, legal, and commercial teams (required).
- Candidates must be authorised to work in the job posting location on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship (required).
- Robust benefits package.
- Global career opportunities.
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.