Tax Analyst jobs at Applied Materials in Singapore, Singapore

Capacity & Capital Investment influence, forecasting & controls

• Support for all new projects in AMSEA, partner with BU finance in development of financial forecast
• Review and assess actualization of forecast with BU
• Partner with BU on the detailed financial data preparation for grant application, ability to articulate the detailed investment plans

AMSEA Government Incentive Management System

• Perform quarterly review on status of project milestone commitment and assess/report on foreseeable risks on commitments
• Develop appropriate claim forecast, taking into consideration of BU operation plan and Commit
• Assess claim status against application and mitigation plans to maximize claim amount
• Prepare and consolidate claim items and computation of claim accrual
• Lead and prepare for external audits for claim to Singapore Government Authorities
• Lead and support ad hoc Singapore Government Authorities site visit requests, including data preparation and document sighting
• Lead and prepare for Singapore Government Authorities audit requests, including data preparation and document sighting
• Lead annual reporting form submission to Singapore Government Authorities
• Lead incentive progress conditions preparation and review for submission
• Prepare quarterly update to HQ

Skills & Competencies

• Experience in evaluating partnerships and deals with government agencies and ecosystem
• Proven competencies in communication, financial analysis and working across functions with different levels of management to drive results
• Eager to learn and understand the incentives to apply and establish standardized financial processes
• Influencing – ability to impact decision within own organization, cross functionally and within different level of management by leveraging experience and competencies in financial analysis
• Self-starter: able to maintain financial cycle deliverables, identify change and drive items to closure with limited management oversight
• Curiosity to understand the drivers of top and bottom-line growth
• High learning agility – quickly understand the value drivers in numerous science and technology fields
• Integrated Enterprise Mindset – altruistic, strong sense of ownership and ability to work across different functions and BU
• Strong analytical skills and effective problem solver – ability to navigate ambiguity and a highly matrix organization
• Strategic communicator – excellent communication skills, ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and experience in developing presentations at the executive staff level

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (finance/Accounting) or Masters degree (MBA); CPA is a plus with 3 - 5+ years of relevant experience
• Very strong Excel skills, including modeling
• Strong systems capabilities, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal skills to engage with partners to understand key issues, develop recommendations and implement actions to improve the business result
• Basic accounting knowledge
• Data analysis tools such as Tableau or Power BI is a plus

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead contributor to key financial forecast cycles, including ownership of task accuracy and data integrity
2. Drives high level projects consisting of complex relationship interactions and direct exposure to senior mgmt.
3. Reviews, monitors and authorizes transactions for subgroups within finance
4. Prepares detailed models for executive consumption and develops presentation of results
5. Process integration lead and/or work stream owner in support of local/regional finance initiatives

Functional Knowledge

• Demonstrates depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized discipline or field

Business Expertise

• Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services

Leadership

• May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity

Problem Solving

• Leads others to solve complex problems; uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions

Impact

• Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by functional policies

Interpersonal Skills

• Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view

What We Offer

Essential Responsibilities

- Assist in corporate income tax compliance and transfer pricing documentation for a Singapore entity. Responsibilities include extracting reports from SAP, performing data compilation and reconciliation, and collaborating with Finance team, external outsourced vendor and tax advisors.

- Support US and local tax reporting requirements, including quarterly tax provision, tax provision package and deferred tax computation.

- Assist in managing tax audits and responding to queries from local tax authorities.

- Provide administrative support for supplier engagements processes, including PO management.

- Minimum 2 years of working experience in Accounting / Tax.

- Possess Singapore tax compliance experience in tax incentivized company is a plus.

- SAP knowledge a plus.

Education:Bachelor Degree in Accountancy, Taxation, ACCA, or equivalent.

Required Skills:

- Possess technical accounting ability, including performing of reconciliation essential.

- Possess intermediate Excel skills.

- Self-motivated and positive, organized, hands-on, meticulous and able to work independently.

- Able to effectively manage time and a large workload, and to meet tight deadlines.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Good verbal and written communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

This is a dynamic role that will enable the candidate to lead the BUs financial investment portfolio analysis and resource management in partnership with the business. The position requires an individual who is eager to work with both BU executives and cross functionally partner with Product Marketing, Program management, Product Engineering, and Operations to provide valued Finance Insight on the following:
• Present to Executive Leadership Team (ELT) of the BU and Segment the annual Portfolio resource plan (HC , Operating Spend (Opex), Capital Expense (Capex)) and articulate alignment to program priority or execution risk/acceleration.
• Support project funding prioritization decision making as it relates to defining scope, timeline, valuation, gaining approval, and execution, including scenario analyses.
• Key stakeholder of Product portfolio’s review of milestone status for continued funding. Must drive corrective actions to improve programs commit executions.
• Interface with senior management to prioritize Opex, improve processes, and allocate resources across programs, supporting key portfolio reviews (EPR, IRB).
• Partner cross-functionally to drive and maintain the quarterly update of each program business case NPV models (Forecasting: Revenue, COS, Opex, Cashflow). Independently present business case financials to Senior management
• Interface with Portfolio owner to prioritizing projects, measure productivity, and optimize resources. Including capital spending plan and tracking.
• Partner within Finance and BU to drive and enhance efficiency of data tools eg. Anaplan, SAP BPC, Tableau, and Project Resource Management (PRM), to streamline R&D spend reporting and analysis.
• Partner with ACE near shore finance organization to ensure portfolio requirements are captured appropriately for finance budgets and plans.
• Ensure data accuracy and partner with management team to develop and tell the story of the business unit using that information(forecasting/budgeting,financial close, balance sheet integrity).
• Interface with Operations and ACE to manage quarterly Opex and Capex to target while prioritizing project priorities.
• Develop and own total Opex, Portfolio and Capex budget planning process by engaging with business partners and senior management during financial cycles (quarterly close, QBR, AOP, SR), ensuring task accuracy and data integrity.

• Executive level communications but also aptitude to drive detailed process and data analytics to support engineering program management.
• Very strong Excel skills, including modeling
• Strong systems capabilities, preferably with Anaplan, SAP BPC, tableau and PRM
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Interpersonal skills to engage with partners to understand key issues, develop recommendations and implement actions to improve the business results
• Experience in P&L reporting and analysis
• Basic accounting knowledge
• Other valued characteristics – Assertiveness, initiative, communication, curiosity about the business, team oriented, collaborative
• Experience in semiconductor equipment or other manufacturing enterprises