Tax Accountant

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the LifeMedtronic is a fast paced, dynamic, medical device company with sales, manufacturing, research and development and operations in over 150 countries and operational headquarters located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Asia Pacific (“APAC”) Tax Department located in Singapore. We are seeking an Tax Accountant with technical, compliance and audit experience and who thrives in a challenging and fast-paced workplace the desire to actively contribute to and learn from our talented and diverse group of tax professionals within the region and within the Tax Department. This role is designed to provide essential support to the APAC Corporate Tax team with exposure to APAC operations while allowing the individual to grow technical capabilities over time.
In this role, the Tax Accountant, APAC, will provide support designated countries’ income tax compliance, audits, and tax planning. Coordinate with controllers, local finance teams, and external service providers to gather required statutory and tax information. In addition, this person will support on regional projects as well as assist the M&A Tax group with APAC M&A (and joint venture) deals, APAC acquisition integrations and divestitures. This position will require delivering technical analysis on various APAC regional and global projects, researching tax related issues and work in collaboration with other persons in the Tax Department, Controllers, Finance, Treasury, Legal and business stakeholders. You will report to to the Senior Tax Manager, APAC.
Medtronic’s Tax Department consists of over 100 tax professionals and support personnel located in different locations in the U.S. and several different locations outside the U.S. This position reports into the International Tax Manager located in Singapore. Our APAC Tax Team members take pride in their ability to think dynamically and help solve unique tax challenges for our business partners. If you are interested in becoming a part of this strong and diverse team, consider applying for this great career opportunity.
As a Tax Accountant, you will support corporate income tax planning in multiple APAC jurisdictions (12 countries and increasing), work on many different types of projects and have regular interaction with business, supply chain, finance, legal and treasury as you help them understand the corporate income tax issues, monitor compliance related matters and support tax audits.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Providing support to the wider Corporate Tax team on all internal quarterly tax reporting matters (e.g. FIN 48 positions, income tax rates, withholding tax rates, tax holiday checklist, tax audit log, thin capitalization review, evaluation of valuation allowances, etc.); including analyses for the APAC region.

• Support in the reviewing corporate income tax returns and payment requests for entities prepared either by local Controllers or external service providers.

• •Providing support to the APAC Team on income tax queries, income tax audits and relationships with local tax authorities.

• Monitoring changes in local tax legislation, rulings, regulations and litigation;

• Support the APAC team on requests by APAC business partners on technical tax considerations and applicability to MDT; and

• Providing implementation support for any regional or global project

• Advise APAC Controllers on tax provisions and deferred income taxes; Proactively identify income tax issues and support developing tax strategies.

Required Knowledge and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Accountancy, Accounting & Finance, Taxation, or equivalent

• Minimum 3 years of international corporate income tax experience in a law firm, large corporate in-house tax department or public accounting.

• Strong accounting and taxation fundamentals

• Proficiency in written and spoken English language skills

• Proactive and eager to learn

• Energetic with an enthusiastic, detailed oriented and hands-on approach

• Team player – ability to work well in a dynamic environment

• Strong analytical and communication skills

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a regional team

• Good Excel skills; interest in tax technology or automation is a plus

Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here