Director, Worldwide Tax

Accountabilities • Lead the worldwide tax function, covering U.S. federal, state and local, international, transfer pricing, and indirect tax matters.

• Develop and execute global tax strategies addressing cash taxes, effective tax rate, tax risk, compliance, and business objectives. • Serve as a senior tax advisor to the CFO and finance leadership on strategic decisions, transactions, and material tax matters. • Monitor global tax developments and assess their implications for businesses, legal entities, cash flows, and financial statements. • Partner closely with Accounting, Treasury, Legal, Corporate Development, and international finance teams. • Lead, develop, and mentor the internal tax team while managing relationships with external tax advisors worldwide. • Direct international tax planning and compliance, including legal entity structuring, restructuring, entity rationalization, and cross-border tax matters. • Oversee U.S. international tax requirements, including foreign tax credits, E&P, GILTI, FDII, and related provisions. • Manage worldwide transfer pricing strategy, documentation, intercompany arrangements, and compliance. • Lead tax activities associated with acquisitions and strategic transactions, including tax due diligence, transaction structuring, modeling, risk assessment, and integration. • Oversee global income tax provision and tax accounting under U.S. GAAP, along with federal, state, local, and international income tax compliance. • Manage cash-tax forecasting and global indirect tax matters, including sales and use tax and VAT/GST. • Lead U.S. federal and state tax audits and oversee international tax audits, inquiries, and related risk-management activities. • Research complex tax issues, document conclusions, and communicate clear recommendations and business implications to senior management. • Maintain effective tax policies, documentation, processes, and internal controls. • Build a scalable, technology-enabled tax function by identifying opportunities to apply AI, automation, analytics, and improved data processes to tax research, compliance, forecasting, reconciliations, reporting, and planning. • Continuously evaluate existing processes and identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve the efficiency and quality of tax operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or a related field. • CPA strongly preferred; an MST or other relevant advanced degree is an advantage. • 8+ years of progressive tax experience, including significant U.S. corporate and international tax experience. • Strong technical knowledge of U.S. federal and international taxation, including GILTI, FDII, foreign tax credits, E&P, and related reporting requirements. • Experience with multinational organizations, global transfer pricing, intercompany arrangements, and cross-border transactions. • Strong understanding of ASC 740 and the tax implications for U.S. GAAP financial statements. • Experience with state and local income taxes and indirect taxation. • M&A tax due diligence, transaction structuring, and post-acquisition integration experience is strongly preferred. • Public accounting experience, particularly with a Big Four or national accounting firm, is preferred. • Experience within software, SaaS, technology, or another multinational corporate environment is advantageous. • Advanced Excel and financial analysis capabilities. • Familiarity with CCH Axcess / ProSystem fx Tax, Sage Intacct, or comparable tax and ERP platforms is a plus. • Experience applying AI, automation, analytics, or emerging technology within tax or finance is highly valued. • Strong strategic thinking combined with the willingness to work hands-on with complex technical matters. • Demonstrated ownership, accountability, initiative, intellectual curiosity, analytical ability, and independent judgment. • Ability to translate complex tax matters into clear business implications and recommendations for senior executives. • Proven people leadership skills, including developing talent and building effective relationships across functions and geographies. • Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial, and acquisition-oriented environment. • Strong communication, organization, interpersonal, research, and problem-solving skills. • High standards of integrity, confidentiality, accuracy, and attention to detail.