Overview
This individual contributor role supports the development, execution, and documentation of the organization’s global tax strategy.
Reporting to the Senior Manager of Global Tax Strategy, the Manager, Global Tax Strategy partners with the global tax department, corporate functions, and operating company teams. Responsibilities primarily cover global tax planning, mergers and acquisitions, cross-border structuring, transfer pricing, cash management, and legal entity initiatives.
Work arrangement may be remote, with a preference for candidates located in the Eastern or Central time zones, or hybrid with required presence at headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Responsibilities
- Strategy
- Co-develop and assist global tax efforts supporting global strategies, working directly with the Senior Director of Global Tax Strategy
- Initiate and facilitate rationalization efforts
- Strategic business partnering
- Serve as a trusted partner to operating companies
- Interact regularly with designated operating company individuals regarding tax compliance, tax benefits and risks, and the relationship between operational decisions and tax outcomes
- Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
- Support M&A due diligence
- Assist with pre- and post-transaction structuring and financing
- Transfer pricing
- Support transfer pricing initiatives, operating model design, value chain transformation initiatives, and controversy matters
- Work directly with the Director of Global Transfer Pricing
- Cash management
- Support global cash management initiatives, including intercompany cash flows, cash repatriation, intercompany loans, and other transactions identified in partnership with the treasury team
- International tax advisory
- Interface with external business partners and tax advisors to execute due diligence and transaction planning
- Assess potential impacts and advise senior tax management on implications and countermeasures
- Legal entity management
- Manage establishment or elimination of legal entities, including maintenance plans and associated supporting documentation
- Advisors and budget management
- Manage external advisory support, budgets, and timely accruals
- Process improvements
- Proactively suggest technology and automation improvements to eliminate waste and improve efficiency
- Governance framework
- Support compliance with and refinement of established tax policies and procedures as set forth in the organization’s tax manual and other interacting policies, including the business change management policy
Requirements (Essential Requirements)
- Bachelor’s degree in Tax, Finance, Accounting, or a related field
- CPA and/or JD
- At least 6 years of cross-border structuring experience involving U.S. and international tax rules and global tax planning concepts
- Experience operating in a complex global enterprise and/or advising complex global enterprises through a major accounting or law firm
- Working knowledge of U.S. tax principles and U.S. tax accounting (current and deferred tax) rules pursuant to ASC740
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally
Preferred Qualifications
- M&A tax experience, including due diligence and pre-acquisition or post-acquisition planning
- Transfer pricing, supply chain planning, or value chain transformation exposure
- Financing structuring or global cash management experience
- Master’s degree in Tax, an MBA, or another relevant advanced degree
- Experience with tax technology, automation, or transformation solutions such as Alteryx
Compensation & Benefits (US)
- Compensation range: $135,000 - $155,000 USD per year
- Eligible for Bonus Pay
- Comprehensive benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees
Location
- Waltham, Massachusetts (headquarters)
- Remote-friendly; preference for candidates located in the Eastern or Central time zones, or hybrid with required presence at headquarters
Travel
- Periodic domestic and international travel, anticipated to be on a quarterly basis