Tax Capability Lead

This exciting role is established in response to the evolving demands of a dynamic and increasingly complex Philippine tax compliance environment. The role leads capability-building, learning enablement, and practical tax knowledge transfer across the JTI PH Global Tax team and key stakeholders, covering all Philippine entities from Market to Factory and Global Business Services (GBS). It is designed to strengthen tax compliance readiness by upskilling both tax and non-tax employees, embedding practical understanding of tax rules, audit learnings, regulatory developments, and governance expectations into day-to-day business processes.

This position supports the Philippine Tax leadership team by driving local learning rollouts, leading tax change readiness initiatives, enhancing tax knowledge management, providing visibility over tax budget and consultant spend, and tracking tax savings and key initiatives that support stronger compliance, improved controls, and more effective stakeholder engagement.

As the Tax Capability Lead, you will:

Tax Training Enablement and Local Learning Rollout

• Lead the rollout of local tax learning initiatives, leveraging the Global Tax Academy approach and available learning materials.
• Drive collaboration with governance and audit stakeholders to translate tax rules, audit learnings, and compliance standards into practical training sessions, job aids, and toolkits.
• Lead the training calendar, stakeholder communications, attendance tracking, learning materials repository, and access enablement where needed.

Local Tax Team Capability Building

• Drive capability-building for the Philippine Global Tax team by identifying training needs, shaping learning paths, and developing practical capability solutions with local and global People & Culture or L&D teams.
• Lead the consolidation of Training Needs Analysis inputs and convert priorities into actionable development plans such as courses, shadowing, coaching circles, curated learning, or other development activities.

Tax Change Monitoring and Execution Readiness

• Partner with tax governance teams to proactively monitor changes in tax legislation, jurisprudence, and related compliance requirements.
• Drive business impact assessments, stakeholder communications, training updates, process or control reminders, and readiness actions for impacted teams.
• Own and maintain a central Tax Change Register covering key changes, impacted processes, accountable owners, actions, and due dates.

Tax Budget, Consultant Spend and Vendor Coordination

• Provide structured oversight and visibility over tax budget and consultant spend to support informed decision-making by the Global Tax leadership.
• Drive consultant and vendor engagement readiness, including RFP inputs, scope templates, onboarding requirements, contract pack readiness, deliverables tracking, and utilization monitoring.

Tax Communications, Value Tracking and Record Retention Enablement

• Lead tracking and reporting of tax savings or cash impact from Philippine tax projects and initiatives.
• Drive regular tax communications to strengthen visibility and compliance awareness, including rule changes, reminders, training invites, wins, and upcoming deadlines.
• Lead improvements in record retention, audit readiness, folder structure, indexing, and evidence completeness.
• Lead tax engagement readiness for visitors, townhalls, team-building activities, mandatory training reminders, policy updates, and internal engagements.