Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Tax Provision and Compliance processes that address statutory and governance requirements throughout the Group;
• Overall proactive management of the 3^rd party advisors and ensuring full compliance with corporate international tax policies and procedures;
• Responsible for tax planning strategies to mitigate risk and minimize worldwide tax liabilities;
• Design, implement and maintain the corporate income tax provisions, including effective tax rate calculations and projections for the quarter and the year-end, tax journal entries, complete tax footnote disclosure for GAAP and statutory reporting;
• Review and ensure accuracy of foreign entity tax provision, deferred tax activities, OCI, valuation allowance and NOL;
• Improve tax efficiencies of cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and post-acquisition integrations etc.;
• Coordinate the work of local advisors in identification and mitigation of potential tax exposure, including compliance and the subsequent review of this work by advisors and auditors;
• Gather documentation and provide timely analysis to support tax positions under federal or state audit;
• Oversee international, Federal, State, Canadian, sales and use, VAT, including EC sales lists, R&D Tax Credits, and withholding tax returns;
• Develops and manages relationships and deliverables with key external stakeholders e.g. tax advisors, government authorities etc.;
• Works closely with and influences key internal stakeholders, to drive achievement of key performance targets (e.g. minimize tax exposure);
• Reports tax status to key stakeholders including the Corporate Controller and CFO;
• Recommends policies, procedures and controls with respect to international income tax compliance to ensure global tax installments are paid as required, tax returns are accurate and complete, and tax positions are supported, minimizing the risk of additional taxes, interest, and penalties;
• Provides leadership by working collaboratively with external vendors and internal staff as appropriate to develop and implement operational resource plans, establish strategies and action plans to achieve the goals, and actively participates in the implementation of actions necessary to correct internal and external issues;
• Prepare computations supporting the tax accounts, including deferred tax balances and payable reconciliations;
• Ensures compliance with corporate international tax policies and procedures;
• Ensures processes are effective and operate in a low risk, sustainable manner;
• Ensures that the tax provision is accurate, complete, and in accordance with corporate international tax policies and procedures (e.g. U.S. GAAP), and recommends corrective actions as necessary;
• Reviews tax installment schedules, ensuring required payments are made to minimize any related interest charges;
• Assists in developing, documenting, establishing, implementing, administering, and maintaining the worldwide arm-length inter-company transfer pricing policies, procedures, practices, and supporting documentation, working with finance and external tax advisors;
• Assists with the preparation of timely, accurate responses to tax authorities with respect to queries and proposed tax adjustments; and
• Remains up to date on current tax practices.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or its international equivalent in Accounting or Taxation
• CPA REQUIRED
• Minimum of 8 years of progressive international tax experience in a large corporate environment and/or U.S. public accounting or large law firm;
• Designing and implementing corporate income tax provisions and regulatory reporting requirements;
• International tax exposure essential
• Able to analyze and review statutes, regulations, and case law and then extract data and make appropriate recommendations;
• Hands-on experience with tax accounting systems and/or excel modeling experience;
• Is customer service focused in approach to work both internally and externally;
• Excellent time-management skills, able to prioritize work to meet deadlines and objectives;
• Ability to act as a business partner and proactively address tax issues or tax implications of business decisions; and
• Tax management within a business of a project nature as well as exposure to the management of change would be an advantage.