Senior International Tax Manager

Career Area:
Finance

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live.

Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Senior International Tax Manager

Starting from £84,000 (depending on experience)

Peterborough or Solihull

• 25 days annual leave
• Up to 20% Bonus
• Monthly Car Cash Allowance - £675
• Contributory pension scheme - Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution up to 10%
• Contributory share scheme - Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution.
• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase.

Caterpillar is looking for a Senior International Tax Manager to join a world-class Global Tax department, providing technical analysis across complex, material tax matters in a dynamic, multinational environment. This is a senior individual‑contributor role reporting to the EAME Tax Director, on an evolving business model that taps on your experience in the Big 4 or in industry.

In this role, you will apply your international tax advisory expertise to:

• support business expansion in a wide jurisdictional base
• translate technical rules into clear, commercially grounded advice for stakeholders
• M&A and restructuring
• tax audit strategy and support
• assess the impact of evolving legislation

Given Caterpillar’s global footprint and growth ambitions, professionals with broad international tax experience in the Big 4 and/or in-house roles who are comfortable operating in fast‑paced environments will find themselves ideally suited to this role. Experience in emerging markets will be useful in this role.

This is a role for an experienced technical expert who enjoys solving complex problems and building trusted partnerships within global tax and wider business. In return, Caterpillar offers the scale, variety and purpose of a world‑class organisation, combined with the opportunity for meaningful work at the forefront of international taxation.

Advising business partners on complex international tax scenarios with an enterprise viewpoint, leveraging experience across broad jurisdictions with a deep knowledge of international tax concepts in M&A, business expansion and tax audit management.

Reviewing complex tax compliance utilizing technical rules and business facts.

Understanding effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with colleagues from different departments and cultures.
• Fluency in English is essential; additional languages would be an advantage.

Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organisational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.

Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise to develop solutions that support the enterprise strategy.

Able to conduct research on complex fact patterns and can interpret and evaluate research to support informed decision‑making.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess the broader environment when structuring advice and solutions.

• Recognised accounting or tax qualification.
• Significant broad international tax experience in either practice or industry, including experience managing cross‑border tax structuring projects or advisory.
• Experience in emerging markets.
• Confident…