We are looking for an experienced Tax Operations Supervisor to lead and oversee corporate tax compliance, reporting, tax accounting, and tax authority engagement across the Africa region. This is a critical role that will ensure tax obligations are met accurately and on time while proactively managing tax risks, audits, and controversies in a complex and dynamic operating environment.

The successful candidate will partner with regional and global stakeholders to drive compliance excellence, strengthen audit readiness, and support strategic tax initiatives across multiple jurisdictions.

Key Responsibilities:

Tax Compliance, Reporting & Tax Authority Engagement

• Manage and deliver corporate tax compliance across the African region, including corporate income tax, withholding taxes, freight taxes, and transfer pricing returns, ensuring positions are technically robust and defensible under tax authority scrutiny.

• Ensure the accurate, complete, and timely preparation, review, and submission of all tax returns and statutory filings, with a focus on minimizing audit exposure and dispute risk.

• Deliver global and regional tax reporting requirements, including CbCR and Pillar Two, ensuring alignment with local audit and disclosure expectations.

• Support the team interacting with tax authorities across Africa region, leading audits, investigations, enquiries, assessments and information requests in high-audit environments.

• Support the end-to-end management of tax controversies, including strategy development, preparation of technical submissions, reconciliations, objections, and negotiation of audit outcomes, in collaboration with internal teams and external advisors where required.

• Drive a disciplined, proactive audit readiness framework, ensuring contemporaneous documentation, technical position papers, and supporting evidence are maintained and readily defensible.

• Manage tax accounting and provisioning requirements within the region, including current tax, deferred tax, and uncertain tax positions, with clear linkage to audit and dispute risk.