Tax Head Egypt/AME

Job Description Summary

Lead and govern all tax activities across Egypt and the AME region, ensuring effective tax strategy, compliance, risk management, transfer pricing governance, and business partnering across multiple jurisdictions. Act as the primary regional tax advisor to local, regional, and global leadership teams, safeguarding the organization against tax and regulatory risks while supporting profitable business growth.

Job Description

Major accountabilities: 

Regional Tax Leadership (AME)

• Lead the tax agenda across all countries within the AME region, ensuring compliance with local tax laws, regulations, and Sandoz policies.
• Act as the primary point of contact for all regional tax matters, providing guidance and strategic support to country management teams and finance leaders.
• Drive consistent tax governance, controls, and risk management frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.
• Monitor legislative developments across the region and assess their impact on business operations and financial performance.
• Represent the region in global tax initiatives, ensuring alignment with corporate tax strategy.

Tax Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure full compliance with local and international tax regulations across the assigned cluster.
• Monitor legislative changes and assess impacts on the business.
• Lead tax audits and proactively identify, assess, and mitigate tax risks.
• Review statutory financial statements from a tax perspective and ensure readiness for tax authority reviews and audits.

Strategic Tax Advisory & Business Partnering

• Provide tax leadership and strategic advice on key business initiatives, commercial arrangements, restructurings, supply chain changes, and cross-border transactions.
• Partner with country leadership teams, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain and Commercial functions to ensure tax efficient business decisions.
• Support business growth objectives through proactive tax planning and identification of optimization opportunities.

Transfer Pricing Governance

• Lead transfer pricing compliance and governance across the AME region.
• Coordinate with Global Tax teams to ensure adherence to corporate transfer pricing policies and OECD guidelines.
• Review profitability levels, intercompany transactions and transfer pricing documentation across the region.
• Support audit defense strategies and management of transfer pricing risks.

Tax Planning, Forecasting & Reporting

• Oversee preparation of tax forecasts, effective tax rate analysis and cash tax projections.
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting to Global Tax and Finance leadership.
• Support budgeting and long-range planning processes through effective tax management and forecasting.

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with tax authorities, auditors, advisors and regulatory bodies.
• Act as a trusted advisor to regional and global leadership on all tax-related matters.
• Manage external tax consultants to ensure effective support and cost optimization.

Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness

• Lead cross-functional and regional projects related to tax and financial governance.
• Drive a culture of compliance, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Coach and develop talent while promoting knowledge sharing and best practices across the region.

What you will bring to the role:
Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Business Administration.
• Professional qualification preferred (CPA, ACCA, CMA, ADIT, CTA or equivalent).

• 10+ years of progressive experience in corporate taxation, preferably within multinational organizations with 5+ years in managerial role.
• Strong knowledge of international taxation, transfer pricing, tax audits, and tax planning.
• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering capabilities.
• Proven leadership experience in regional or multi-country environments.
• Excellent analytical, negotiation, communication, and presentation skills.
• Strong project management and change management capabilities.

 Why Sandoz?

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more, so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of access to good healthcare.

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported! 

Join us, help us make healthcare fairer and faster.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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