Sr. Director Tax Compliance

Responsibilities

• Lead the US Tax Compliance Process for Treasury


• Coordinate with corporate tax and treasury tax colleagues to understand the long, medium and short-term funding structures and identify US tax issues
• Strive to continuously improve US tax compliance efficiency and accuracy
• Identify opportunities to bolster the level of transparency in the process to ensure appropriate preparation and review are timely performed
• Ensure appropriate resources are in place to timely prepare and review the returns
• Identify opportunities and leverage internal technology resources to improve efficiency and accuracy of the processes
• Ensure appropriate documentation is maintained and stored consistent with policies
• Coordinate with the Treasury Global Tax Controller to ensure appropriate US GAAP treatment and opportunities and risks are properly accounted for in financial, planning and analysis (ie–budgeting)
• Proactively participate in tax planning to ensure all structural, legislative, or other changes during the year are appropriately recognized on the US consolidated tax return

Qualifications 

•  CPA
• 10+ Years of Public Accounting experience or equivalent
• Strong US tax technical skills with a focus on international tax or financial products
• Ability to leverage technology to improve timeliness and efficiency of reporting processes
• Independent self-starter that can coordinate and project manage across tax functions and reporting lines
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• General knowledge of FAS 109/Tax Accounting

Desired

• Masters in Tax, or JD
• Confidence / Assertiveness:  strong influencing  skills  across  business  functions;  confidence  to  approach  business  leaders with  difficult  messages  and  defend  position; for  example,  work  closely  with  business leaders  to  achieve  business  objectives  while  driving  controllership/Values
• Experience working in global business environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows
• Experience  working  in  a  matrix environment
• Adaptable/flexible:  open  to change in response  to  new  information,  different  or  unexpected  circumstances,  and/or ability to work  in  ambiguous  situations
• Integrity:  Accepting  and  adhering  to  high moral,  ethical,  and  personal  values  in decisions,  communications,  actions,  and  when  dealing with  others