Senior Tax Specialist

About the role

Join our incredible team at Royal Caribbean Group, the vacation-industry leader with global brands including Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises, and Silversea Cruises. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, excellent career development opportunities, and unique ways to explore the world.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely and accurate tax filing for all legal entities (VAT/CIT/IIT/SD) on monthly, quarterly, and annual bases, including key-account reports per tax authority requests.
• Assist with CIT Allocation ratio application (quarterly/annual).
• Prepare tax journal entries (e.g., DTA, CIT) and tax bridge analysis during month-end closing.
• Responsible for monthly tax forecast and annual tax plan.
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliation for tax-related accounts, ensuring reconciliation from accounting to tax filing and reporting any existing or potential issues.
• Assist in withholding taxes and foreign exchange control compliance; manage forex payments.
• Oversee Fapiao management.
• Address tax authorities' queries, assessments, and audits.
• Provide practical advice to internal business partners on financial and tax operational issues.
• Support internal and external auditing teams and advisors as needed.
• Prepare data collection and calculation for annual Transfer Pricing (TP) cycles (setup, adjustment review) and collaborate with tax agents to complete TP documentation.
• Assist in transfer pricing method studies and reviews.
• Maintain proactive communication and relationships with local government authorities.
• Ensure paperwork and filing are up to date.
• Drive process simplification and standardization of tax processes.
• Support business operations by providing timely solutions for tax-related issues in new office openings or projects (e.g., tax invoices, ROW, and collection management).
• Perform other assigned tax duties.
• Review and manage full payroll calculation from payroll service providers.
• Provide payroll reporting, data consolidation, verification, and reconciliation for internal and external parties, ensuring data quality and timely submission.
• Collaborate with HR operations and payroll providers to implement payroll policies and resolve employee payroll inquiries within required timelines.
• Support internal and external payroll audits, ensuring all necessary documents and approvals comply with internal controls.
• Monitor payroll service vendors to ensure compliance with local social benefit policies, labor laws, and HK MPF enrollment/adjustment policies.
• Handle ESOP tax calculations, including collecting release confirmations, preparing calculation forms, and liaising with payroll providers for filing.
• Prepare quarterly reports to SAFE regarding ESOP implementation status (e.g., shares granted, sold, and account balances).
• Provide annual ESOP applications to SAFE if required.
• Assist in ESOP registration with tax bureaus, including record filing for grant and vest.
• Support ESOP external audits and other operational processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or tax.
• 5–10 years of qualified tax experience with tax firms or multinational corporations; experience in Service/Travel is a plus.
• Tax or accounting qualification (e.g., CPA, CTA, ACCA).
• Strong tax, financial, and transfer pricing knowledge, with experience in tax accounting.
• Fluent in oral and written English and Mandarin.
• Strong coordination and communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment with a strong sense of efficiency, economics, and teamwork.
• Comfortable working under pressure.