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Head of Tax Operations

Join Ørsted in Kuala Lumpur as Head of Tax Operations, leading a global team to optimize indirect tax processes, ensure compliance, and enhance governance. This role offers the chance to drive transformation and collaborate across regions with a focus on efficiency and control.

Flexible Full time UTC+08:00 Updated 1 day ago

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Imagine a future where a global indirect tax operations team driven by robust governance, efficient operations and flawless intercompany integrity

Join us in this role where you'll transform Global Tax Operations team - embedding best-in-class governance, enhancing compliance, and simplifying complexity. You'll lead process optimization and oversee support the submission of indirect tax reporting, ensuring consistency, control, and efficiency across regions.

You'll be part of Tax Operations team where you, together with your colleagues, will collaborate with a global network of tax, finance, and business to drive consistent, high-quality outcomes. Together, you'll strengthen governance frameworks, optimise processes, and ensure intercompany transactions are done on-time with proper documentation following local requirements by building a compliant, efficient, and future-ready operating model.

As a team, we collaborate globally to simplify complexity, strengthen compliance, and deliver efficient, high-quality outcomes.

You'll play an important role in

  • lead and oversee Tax Operations team, ensuring adherence to diverse regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions
  • design and implement robust process governance frameworks, strengthening controls, risk management, and consistency in operations
  • drive process optimisation and automation, improving efficiency and scalability of tax operations
  • ensure accurate reporting submission with strong collaboration with local tax teams across regions
  • lead a global team, driving the transformation of a centralised operational hub.

To succeed in the role, you

  • have a technical accounting, tax or audit background with practical experience of working local financial statements and in/with audit and managing the end-to-end audit cycle
  • have strong capability in operational excellence & process optimisation to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and build scalable, high-performing tax operations
  • possess proven ability to partner with cross-functional and regional stakeholders, influencing decisions and aligning global objectives
  • are strong in strategic leadership and transformation to lead global teams and drive large-scale transformation initiatives, including centralised operating models and system implementations (e.g. S/4HANA)
  • have indirect tax expertise and deep knowledge of global indirect tax regulations, compliance, and governance across multiple jurisdictions
  • are fluent in speak, read & write in Mandarin to handling APAC region.

Maybe you've read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don't quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us

Send your application to us as soon as possible. We'll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we've found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via [email protected].

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position

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About this role

Posted
22 Oct 2026
Updated
22 Oct 2026
Job type
Full time
Workplace
Flexible
Working hours
UTC+08:00
Experience
Senior
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About Ørsted

Company Overview

Name

Ørsted

Headquarters

Fredericia, Denmark

Founded

1972

Size

Approximately 8,700 employees globally (source: linkedin.com). Revenues of DKK 82.0 billion (approximately €11 billion) in 2023 (source: orsted.com).

What They Do

Ørsted is a global leader in renewable energy, focusing on offshore wind as its primary business model. The company develops, constructs, and operates large offshore wind farms using both fixed and floating turbines, and offers services in project development, engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance, as well as power purchase agreements (source: orsted.com). Additionally, Ørsted works with onshore wind, solar energy, energy storage, renewable hydrogen, green fuels, and bioenergy, making them a versatile player in the renewable energy market (source: stateofgreen.com). Target markets include Europe, particularly the UK, Germany, and Denmark, as well as the USA, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, where they serve large customers such as national grid operators and utilities (source: orsted.com). Ørsted holds a leading competitive position as the world's largest developer of offshore wind with over 15 GW of installed capacity globally and a pipeline of over 37 GW under development (source: orsted.com).

Projects & Achievements

Among Ørsted's notable projects is the Hornsea 2 offshore wind farm in the UK, which, with a capacity of 1.4 GW, was fully commissioned in 2022 and is the world's largest operational offshore wind farm (source: orsted.com). The Race Bank offshore wind farm, also in the UK, was completed in 2018 with a capacity of 573 MW (source: orsted.com). In the USA, Revolution Wind (704 MW) reached financial close in 2024 with operations planned for 2026, while South Fork Wind (132 MW), the first offshore wind farm in the state, began delivering power to New York in 2024 (source: orsted.com). Current major projects include Hornsea 3 (2.9 GW, UK, under construction with first power expected in 2025) and Greater Changhua 4 (112 MW, Taiwan, commissioning in 2025) (source: orsted.com).

Recent Developments

In the past two years, Ørsted has won a contract for the 2.4 GW Atlantic Shores Project 4 offshore wind lease off the coast of New Jersey, USA, in October 2024 (source: orsted.com). They reached financial close on the 1.1 GW Greater Changhua 4 & 5 offshore wind farms in Taiwan in July 2024, valued at over DKK 10 billion (source: orsted.com). In 2023, Ørsted acquired a 20% stake in the 900 MW Nissen offshore wind project in Germany for €227 million (source: orsted.com). Ørsted also secured €1.2 billion in green financing in 2024 and reported an EBITDA of DKK 18.0 billion in 2023 despite project delays (source: orsted.com).

Working There

Ørsted offers roles in engineering (wind turbine technicians, project engineers), project development (site acquisition, permitting specialists), operations and maintenance (offshore service technicians), supply chain, finance, IT, legal, and sustainability analysis, with high demand in offshore wind construction and hydrogen R&D (source: orsted.com). Active recruitment is taking place at offices in Fredericia and Copenhagen (Denmark) for engineering and HQ functions, London (UK) for project development, as well as in the USA, Taiwan, and Germany for offshore wind and hydrogen initiatives (source: linkedin.com). The company culture emphasizes innovation and transformation, as evidenced by their successful shift from fossil fuels, with employee reviews on Glassdoor averaging 4.0/5 for work-life balance and career opportunities (source: glassdoor.com). Documented benefits include competitive salaries, a 37-hour workweek in Denmark, six weeks of paid vacation, pension contributions up to 12%, hybrid work arrangements, and green benefits such as electric vehicle schemes and sustainability training (source: orsted.com).

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