Region Tax Manager Africa Levante

The Region Tax Manager – Africa Levante will be responsible for overseeing and managing direct and indirect tax matters across the Africa Levante region, ensuring full compliance with applicable tax laws, internal policies, and Group standards. The role will act as the key tax point of reference for the region, supporting business operations, finance teams, and senior management on tax matters while proactively identifying risks, opportunities, and areas for process improvement. 

Thanks to your tax expertise, you will manage and oversee corporate income tax, withholding tax, VAT/GST, customs-related tax matters, and other relevant direct and indirect tax obligations across the Africa Levante region. You will ensure timely and accurate tax compliance, including tax returns, payments, filings and reporting obligations, while coordinating with local advisors and finance teams. You will also provide tax support to business operations, commercial initiatives, supply chain projects, intercompany transactions and other regional business developments, while monitoring legislative and regulatory changes and assessing their potential impact. 

You will support tax audits, enquiries, disputes and interactions with local tax authorities, ensuring an appropriate and consistent defense strategy. You will manage transfer pricing matters, including local country documentation, intercompany charges and benchmarking, in line with Group policies, and contribute to tax risk management, internal controls and governance processes. Thanks to your ability to collaborate across different stakeholders, you will coordinate with Group and Area Tax, regional finance leadership, external advisors and local teams to ensure consistent implementation of tax positions and timely escalation of material issues. 

You will also manage customs audits and litigations, including authorizations, certifications and guarantee requests, and identify applicable customs codes based on the codes provided by the Group. 

The role will require frequent travel across the Africa Levante region to support local teams, attend meetings with business stakeholders and advisors, manage tax audits and authority interactions, and ensure close oversight of key tax matters in the relevant markets.

Thanks to your 8–10 years of relevant tax experience, you will bring strong exposure to both direct and indirect taxation, supported by a solid technical background in corporate income tax, VAT/GST, withholding tax, tax audits, transfer pricing and tax risk management. Your previous experience in a multinational environment, professional services firm or regional tax role covering multiple jurisdictions will support you in managing complex tax matters across emerging markets and jurisdictions with evolving tax practices. 

Thanks to your project management, coordination, strong influencing and relationship-building  skills, you will work effectively with multiple stakeholders, external advisors and local teams. Your communication skills will allow you to explain complex tax matters clearly to non-tax stakeholders and senior management. 

You will be fluent in English, while additional languages relevant to the region, particularly Arabic, French will be considered an advantage.

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