Tax Director - Mergers & Acquisitions (Private Equity)
EisnerAmper
Tax Director, Americas
dentsu Austria
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • New York
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💰 $163,000 - $263,350 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- The US tax director role is an essential part of the US finance leadership team – a senior, multi-faceted role reporting to the Americas CFO, managing the US business tax position of the group and supporting the business in various tax areas.
- The role will also have a close working relationship with the group tax function and group Head of Tax.
- Responsibilities include tax compliance, risk management and tax optimisation in line with Group Tax Policies for the US.
- Identify risks, recommend practical solutions, and make decisions; work autonomously, but also recognising where internal and external input may be needed.
- Manage and develop tax team (which includes an off-shore tax team) on: Preparing the federal and state income tax workpapers and returns; final sign off before submission.
- Leveraging technology and other resources to capture process efficiencies and technical accuracies.
- Support the US businesses in dealing with tax notices, IRS communications, e.g. tax residence certificates etc.
- Own the US tax reporting process for the US, for all group reporting processes, including year-end (soft close) and all other tax reporting obligations.
- Represent the tax function in cross-functional domestic and international business transactions with the overall goal of identifying and mitigating tax risk and potential reductions in the US effective tax rate.
- Determine areas of tax exposure and manage tax risk, ensuring that provisions for uncertain tax positions are appropriate.
- Review and perform analysis to determine the tax effects of proposed business transactions (M&A) for the purposes of developing the most favourable tax position.
- Communicate findings and recommendations to appropriate departments and implement changes as required.
- Oversee the tax component of financial due diligence for M&A, agreements and cross-border transactions.
- Monitor domestic and foreign tax law changes, including proposed legislation, court cases, regulations, rulings, and other regulatory tax pronouncements that impact business operations and effectively communicate those impacts to the appropriate personnel within the company.
- Identify opportunities where tax strategy can enhance the Company’s long-term growth and profitability.
- Support and develop competencies/tax education of subordinate tax group members.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in accounting/tax or related field
- Extensive corporate income tax experience in industry and/or public accounting
- CPA and/or Big 4 experience is preferred but not needed
- Experience with tax software generally
- Extensive relevant record of accomplishment working within large, complex global organisations, with proven corporate tax experience with an ability to apply their technical knowledge in a practical way
- Strong accounting and analytical, problem-solving skills and quantitative skills and a record of accomplishment for planning, doing and auditing work; the ability to see beyond the numbers to drive sound decision-making, systematically break down problems or processes into their parts and develop several alternative solutions
- Strong IT skills (excel and accounting packages)
- Strong project & change management skills and ability to manage multiple projects and priorities at once
- Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, while being able to discuss detailed technical aspects clearly
