Executive Director, Global Head of Tax

The Executive Director – Head of Tax leads CSL’s global tax function, overseeing tax strategy, governance, risk, compliance, and reporting across more than 100 legal entities in around 40 countries.

Reporting to the VP, Controlling, Reporting & Tax, this role provides leadership across all tax areas, including corporate, indirect, transfer pricing, and tax accounting. As CSL’s senior tax advisor, the role supports the CFO, Executive Leadership Team, and Board on key tax matters, ensuring compliance, managing risk, and optimising the company’s global tax position.

Your Roles & Responsibilities

• Define and Lead CSL’s global tax strategy, aligning to business objectives and risk appetite

• Lead and develop a high-performing global tax team, building capability and succession

• Oversee tax governance, compliance, and risk management across all jurisdictions

• Ensure accurate and timely tax reporting, disclosures, and audit management

• Provide oversight of transfer pricing and intercompany arrangements

• Advise on major transactions, restructures, and strategic initiatives

• Build strong relationships with tax authorities, auditors, and senior stakeholders, including the Board

• Drive continuous improvement in tax processes, systems, and team capability

Your Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

• CA/CPA qualified or equivalent; additional tax qualifications advantageous

• 18+ years’ experience in senior tax roles within large multinational organisations or top-tier professional accounting firms

• Process excellence/improvement

• Strong expertise in international tax, governance, tax accounting, and transfer pricing

• Proven experience managing audits, disputes, and regulator relationships

• Experience engaging with executive leadership

• Strong healthcare/pharmaceutical industry experience preferred but not essential.

Key Capabilities

• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills

• Excellent communication, influencing, and presentation abilities

• Sound judgment with the ability to set direction and drive outcomes

• Highly analytical with strong problem-solving capability

• Results-driven with the ability to prioritise and make timely decisions

Hybrid working, min 3 days in the office

HQ base role, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor  visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

Our Benefits

For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.

You Belong at CSL

At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.

 To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging

Equal Opportunity Employer

CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.