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About the Role

BeOne Medicines is seeking a Senior Tax Manager for Japan and the Asia Pacific region to provide tax leadership and operational support. This role will manage Japan tax compliance, accounting, tax authority matters, and transfer pricing, while also supporting other APAC markets and regional projects.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Japan tax compliance calendar, tax risk register, key controls, and internal review process.
• Lead the preparation, coordination with external tax advisors, and review of Japanese corporate income tax, consumption tax, withholding tax, local tax, and other recurring filings, payments, registrations, and notifications.
• Critically review tax returns, calculations, workpapers, and advice prepared by external consultants.
• Ensure tax filings and positions are supported by reliable source data, reconciled to SAP and the general ledger, and evidenced through clear, audit-ready documentation.
• Provide practical guidance on vendor, healthcare professional, employee, and cross-border withholding tax matters.
• Manage Japan quarterly and annual tax accounting, including current and deferred tax, tax provisions, effective tax rate analysis, return-to-provision, and uncertain tax positions.
• Review tax accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, tax payments, forecasts, and cash tax requirements.
• Support statutory financial statements, group reporting, audit requests, and tax disclosures under local requirements and US GAAP.
• Act as the primary tax contact for Japan tax authority enquiries, reviews, and audits.
• Coordinate internal stakeholders and external advisers for tax audits.
• Manage Japan transfer pricing execution for distribution, R&D service, funding, and other related-party arrangements.
• Coordinate and review benchmarking studies, local files, related-party disclosures, CbCR-related requirements, intercompany agreements, and supporting documentation.
• Advise on cross-border payments and transactions.
• Support Pillar Two, supply chain, customs, financing, restructuring, and other global or regional tax initiatives affecting Japan.
• Provide timely, commercially practical tax advice on contracts, product launches, pricing, importation and distribution models, clinical trial and healthcare professional arrangements, employment matters, and business change.
• Partner proactively with various departments to identify risks and implement solutions.
• Clearly communicate tax positions, options, risks, and recommended actions to stakeholders.
• Support selected APAC markets on direct and indirect tax, withholding tax, tax accounting, transfer pricing, R&D incentives, tax audits, entity establishment, and other priority matters.
• Contribute to regional tax governance, control improvement, process standardisation, documentation, digitalisation, and tax technology initiatives.
• Provide cover and surge support for regional compliance cycles and projects.
• Manage relationships with external tax advisers, including scopes of work, fee proposals, budgets, timelines, deliverable quality, and performance.
• Maintain internal ownership of tax positions and deliverables.
• Build trusted, constructive relationships with local management and regional and global tax stakeholders.
• Provide day-to-day technical guidance, review, and mentoring to the Tax Specialist and other team member(s).
• Develop practical procedures, review checklists, templates, and knowledge materials to strengthen quality, continuity, and team capability.
• Promote a collaborative, accountable, and continuous-improvement culture.

Requirements

• Native Japanese speaker with fluent written and spoken English.
• Ability to communicate complex tax matters clearly to local and global stakeholders.
• Formal training and strong technical grounding in Japanese corporate income tax, Japanese consumption tax, withholding tax, local taxes, tax administration, and tax audits.
• Strong experience in tax accounting, including current and deferred tax, tax provisions, return-to-provision analysis, tax account reconciliations, and statutory and group reporting.
• Working knowledge of international tax, tax treaties, transfer pricing, cross-border transactions, and tax risk management.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Comfortable working with SAP and large data sets.
• Proficiency using tools such as Power Query, Power Automate, Alteryx, or similar tax and data technologies.
• Strong written documentation, organisation, stakeholder management, and project management skills.
• Able to work effectively in a hybrid environment from Japan or Australia and collaborate across Japan and APAC time zones.
• Appropriate work rights for the employing location are required.

Skills

• Tax leadership
• Tax compliance
• Tax accounting
• Tax authority matters
• Transfer pricing
• International tax
• SAP
• Power Query
• Power Automate
• Alteryx
• Written documentation
• Organisation
• Stakeholder management
• Project management

Location

• Japan
• Australia

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior
• 10+ years' relevant tax experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Taxation, Law, or a related discipline
• Japanese tax qualification (Zeirishi) and/or CA, CPA, CTA, or equivalent professional qualification preferred
• Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, or another highly regulated industry preferred

Salary/Compensations

• Market competitive compensation package including performance-based annual bonus scheme

Benefits

• Company shares (generous welcome grant!)
• In-house and external learning and development opportunities
• Fantastic benefits program

About the Company

• BeOne is a global oncology company that is discovering and developing innovative treatments that are more affordable and accessible to cancer patients worldwide.
• With a broad portfolio, we are expediting development of our diverse pipeline of novel therapeutics through our internal capabilities and collaborations.
• We are committed to radically improving access to medicines for far more patients who need them.
• Our growing global team of more than 10,000 colleagues spans five continents, with administrative offices in Basel, Beijing, and Cambridge, U.S.
• BeOne continues to grow at a rapid pace with challenging and exciting opportunities for experienced professionals.
• When considering candidates, we look for scientific and business professionals who are highly motivated, collaborative, and most importantly, share our passionate interest in fighting cancer.

Equal Opportunity

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