Tax Counsel (Contract)

The Finance team’s goal is to be a trusted and collaborative partner to all the businesses and functional teams that we work with, bringing business acumen, financial expertise and insights to aid decision-making and deliver value to our stakeholders. We strive to generate value through providing specialist advice and making recommendations to optimize decision making, delivering transparent processes and implementing governance and controls to mitigate risk.

The Tax Counsel team at ResMed is a team of high-calibre skilled lawyers who specialise in tax law. The Tax Counsel role is responsible for providing leadership, project management, advice and counsel. This role reports into the Senior Tax Counsel and partner closely with ResMed’s internal governance function.

This role has a maximum term of 12 months (as maternity leave cover). There may be opportunities for the role to be extended or converted depending on business needs at the end of the 12-month term.

Let’s talk about ResMed:

At ResMed, we are pioneering innovative medical devices and digital health solutions that empower people to live healthier and higher quality lives. We’re on a mission to solve unique and exciting challenges utilizing technology, connected solutions and harnessing the power of data to impact over a billion people.

Let’s talk about the role:

You are a tax lawyer that will lead tax authority engagements and have responsibility to develop ResMed’s Tax Governance framework. You operate with a problem-solving, solution-oriented mindset. You are collaborative and can partner at all levels of the organization to give advice, make decisions, and support product-led, customer-centric and brand-enhanced initiatives. You work autonomously.

Specifically, you will be doing the following:

• Lead and manage tax authority engagement: You will manage regional tax controversy workstreams, including from early-stage audit to litigation preparation. You will develop and manage engagement strategies to improve outcomes and mitigate tax risk. This includes leading Justified Trust programs (such as the Top 100), early engagement, private rulings, reviews and audits. To achieve this, you will assist with the management of internal and external resources to deliver outcomes on time and at a high quality.

• Drive ResMed’s global tax governance strategy: You will prepare, implement and operationalise global tax governance processes and strategy in collaboration with members of the broader Tax, Risk, Legal and Finance teams. You will find opportunities to continually improve ResMed’s existing framework to align with ResMed’s strategies.

• Lead technical legal advice: You will provide legal advice and opinions with respect to tax law, governance and intragroup transactions (such as for intragroup loans and dividends). You will stay current on international tax laws and recommend updates to strategy and process. You will work closely with government affairs with respect to tax law changes.

• Represent the global Tax Team in cross-functional projects: Seek, build and maintain relationships with strategic leaders across the ResMed business to understand key business initiatives and deliver on tax team strategy on cross-functional projects (such as tax audits, legal structuring, intercompany agreements, transfer pricing, etc.).

Additional responsibilities include:

• Provide tax and legal support on M&A projects

• Assist with the review, negotiation and management of tax clauses in third party contracts

• Manage and assist in developing strategy on tax research and opinions developed by both in-house and 3rd party service providers, including responsibility for prioritizing planning and implementation of advice on a variety of tax and commercial projects

• Provide tax law support to the Public Officer of the Australian Tax Consolidated group

Let’s talk about you:

• We are open to differing levels of experience applying for this role. You should have relevant pre-existing experience in a law firm, accounting firm, tax authority or in-house.

• A good mix of both tax and legal expertise throughout your career

• Experience in dealing with international, cross border issues and various types of legal and business structures

• Ideally, experience with the OECD guidelines regarding transfer pricing

• Excellent tax technical, research, analytical skills and decision-making capabilities

• Demonstrated high standards of professional and business ethics

• Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal with all levels of the organization, including the ability to communicate complex tax issues and options to senior executive financial and operating management teams

• Excellent analytical, organizational and project management skills

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and influence others

• Degree Qualified Lawyer holding current practicing certificate

Joining us is more than saying “yes” to making the world a healthier place. It’s discovering a career that’s challenging, supportive and inspiring. Where a culture driven by excellence helps you not only meet your goals, but also create new ones. We focus on creating a diverse and inclusive culture, encouraging individual expression in the workplace and thrive on the innovative ideas this generates. If this sounds like the workplace for you, apply now! We commit to respond to every applicant.