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.

Role Summary

Caterpillar is looking for a Senior 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.

What You Will Do:

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, and
• 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 the 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.

What You Will Have:

• Effective Communications: 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.
• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Influencing Through Expertise: Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to use these to deepen own expertise to develop solutions that support the enterprise strategy.
• Tax Advisory: Advising business partners on complex 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.
• Tax Operations: Reviewing complex tax compliance utilizing technical rules and business facts.
• Research Analysis:  Able to conduct research on complex fact patterns and can interpret and evaluate research to support informed decision-making.

Top Candidates Will Also Have:

• Recognised accounting or tax qualification;
• 10-12 years of international tax experience in either practice or industry, including at least 5 years’ experience managing cross-border tax structuring projects or advisory;
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess the broader environment when structuring advice and solutions;
• Confident self-starter with the ability to work independently in a demanding, fast-paced environment whilst contributing to the overarching strategic direction of the department;
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with colleagues from different departments and cultures; and
• Fluency in English is essential; additional languages would be an advantage.

Additional Information:

A valid work permit or EU-25/EFTA citizenship is required for this position.​

This role requires up to 10% of business travel time.

The position can be based either in Milan or Minerbio

Why Caterpillar?

• Global reach, real impact – Your expertise will contribute to decisions across a truly multinational enterprise.
• Technical depth over hierarchy – A senior individual‑contributor role where experience, judgement, and insight are valued.
• Meaningful, complex work – Exposure to challenging tax issues in an evolving, world‑class organisation offering long‑term career opportunities.

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Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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