Group Tax Manager

Group Tax Manager at Digicel Group (JAMAICAN BASED ROLE)                                                       

Competitive salary + bonus (tax free) + housing / sponsorship and flight allowances.                          

Kingston, Jamaica (Relocation Support)

About Digicel - Digicel is a $2.8 bn telecoms group which provides mobile communications, business solutions, media and entertainment services to businesses and consumers in 31 markets across the Caribbean, Central America and Pacific regions. The company was founded in 2001 by Irish business man Denis O’Brien and is headquartered in Kingston Jamaica.

Since its inception, Digicel has invested over US $5 billion in the business worldwide, contributing to the growth of a great company with a legacy of democratising communications that make an impactful contribution to countries and people across the globe. In February 2017, Digicel announced its Digicel 2030 Transformation Programme and are now on a mission to build a company for the future. As telecoms providers across the globe move to benefit from technology advances and manage changing customer needs and attacks from new and unregulated emerging competitors, Digicel are daring to be different as they work to provide their customers with a completely new communications and entertainment experience.

The role and requirements - Reporting to the Head of Tax, Caribbean and Central America, the Group Tax manager will be the expert within the Digicel Group regarding all tax matters for the group, with responsibility for reviewing tax legislation in the Group’s markets and liaising with the Group’s tax advisers on managing same, manage tax audits internally and in conjunction with external advisors, increasing tax awareness/ compliance across the business and work on various special projects and presentations, including tax technical research.

Applicants will have a proven track record of 4-5 years PQE working in a corporate tax department in industry and be a qualified ACA/ ACCA accountant from a highly recognized accountancy firm (Big 4 – 10).  A good understanding of VAT is desirable and advanced excel skills is required.

The successful candidate will have prior proven experience of working in large global organizations and international entrepreneurial environments.

Applicants must be willing to relocate to Jamaica with a minimum 3-year commitment. Please apply below.