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Reporting To: Tax Manager Duty Post: Taguig Head Office

Tax Capability Specialist

The Tax Capability Specialist is responsible for supporting a consistent tax compliance culture across JTI entities in the Philippines through capability-building, training coordination, communications, and execution readiness initiatives. The role helps translate tax rules, audit learnings, and key regulatory updates into practical guidance, learning materials, and tools that business stakeholders can understand and apply.

This position supports the Philippine Tax leadership team by coordinating local learning rollouts, monitoring tax-related changes, consolidating visibility on tax budget and consultant spend, and tracking tax savings and key initiatives.

What you will do

Tax Training Enablement and Local Learning Rollout

• Coordinate the rollout of local tax learning initiatives, leveraging the Global Tax Academy approach and available learning materials.

• Work with governance and audit stakeholders to translate tax rules, audit learnings, and compliance standards into practical training sessions, job aids, and toolkits.

• Manage the training calendar, communications, attendance tracking, learning materials repository, and access coordination when needed.

Local Tax Team Capability Building

• Support capability-building for the Philippine Tax team by coordinating training needs inputs, learning paths, and development solutions with local and global People & Culture or L&D teams.

• Consolidate Training Needs Analysis inputs and translate priorities into actionable development plans such as courses, shadowing, coaching circles, curated learning, or other development activities.

Tax Change Monitoring and Execution Readiness

• Partner with tax governance teams to monitor changes in tax legislation, jurisprudence, and related requirements.

• Coordinate business impact notes, communications, training updates, process or control reminders, and readiness actions for impacted stakeholders.

• Maintain a central Tax Change Register covering key changes, impacted processes, owners, actions, and due dates.

Tax Budget, Consultant Spend and Vendor Coordination

• Support consolidation of tax budget and consultant spend visibility.

• Coordinate consultant or vendor administration, including support for RFP documents, scope templates, onboarding requirements, contract pack coordination, deliverables tracking, and utilization monitoring.

Tax Communications, Value Tracking and Record Retention Enablement

• Track and report tax savings or cash impact from Philippine tax projects and initiatives.

• Publish regular tax communications to improve visibility and compliance awareness, including rule changes, reminders, training invites, wins, and upcoming deadlines.

• Support improvements in record retention, audit readiness, folder structure, indexing, and evidence completeness.

• Provide coordination support for tax visitors, townhalls, team-building activities, mandatory training reminders, policy updates, and internal engagements.

Tax Knowledge and Stakeholder Management Support

• Curate a SharePoint-based PH Tax Knowledge Hub for SOPs, templates, training recordings, FAQs, key rulings, position libraries, and practical guides.

• Consolidate training-to-compliance metrics such as training completion, repeat error trends, audit response rework rates, and record retention health checks.

• Facilitate after-action reviews following major audits, enforcements, or key rule changes, and convert learnings into training refreshers, job aids, and governance reminders.

• Maintain stakeholder maps and communication cadence to support timely and consistent tax communications.

Who we are looking for

• University degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or equivalent.

• CPA qualification is required or preferred.

• Background in Business Communications, Knowledge Management, HR Learning & Development, or equivalent is preferred.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in tax, with exposure to enablement, program coordination, governance or controls support, learning delivery, communications, PMO, or similar roles in a multinational environment.

• Fluent in oral and written English and Filipino.

Functional skills required

• Ability to convert technical tax inputs into clear training materials, job aids, and practical business guidance.

• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills across business functions and governance teams.

• Solid program or project management discipline, including calendar management, trackers, governance cadence, and reporting.

• Strong analytical and reporting skills, including basic finance tracking, benefits tracking, and dashboards.

• Knowledge management mindset, with strong documentation discipline, record retention structure, and content publishing capability.

Are you ready to join us? Build your success story at JTI. Apply now! Next Steps:

After applying, if selected, please anticipate the following within 1-3 weeks of the job posting closure: Phone screening with Talent Advisor > Assessment tests > Interviews > Offer. Each step is eliminatory and may vary by role type.

At JTI, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive work environment. As an equal-opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you need any specific support, alternative formats, or have other access requirements, please let us know.