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Job Purpose and Impact

• The Senior Professional, Tax job independently prepares tax forms and performs complex tax research and analysis and tax compliance activities. With minimal supervision, this job leads tax compliance process development and execution, develops tax solutions and advice, and enables the resolution of legal disputes and audits.

Key Accountabilities

• TAX RETURNS & TAX FORM COMPLETION: Leads the preparation of complex tax returns, and prepares and reviews tax forms and related documents associated with tax compliance, including provisions, computations, estimates, and extensions.
• TAX COMPLIANCE & INQUIRY RESPONSES: Provides support to the organization's subsidiaries, joint ventures, business staff and tax department personnel by providing advice on complex tax transactions and issues.
• TAX COMPLIANCE ACTIVITY OVERSIGHT: Leads the execution of substantial processes related to statutory and or generally accepted accounting principles for tax related items, plans the execution of tax compliance processes and exercises, and verifies correctness of tax calculations and accurate maintenance of records.
• TAX COMPLIANCE PROCESS DEVELOPMENT: Participates in tax compliance projects, develops processes and identifies data requirements for tax, financial and compliance systems for testing, training, and data quality purposes.
• TAX COMPLIANCE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Reviews and identifies material issues with business compliance processes, analyzes compliance processes and the applications used in these processes to identify tax and work process issues in practice, and recommends improvements to minimize tax risk for the organization, and increase and ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of compliance processes.
• TAX SOLUTIONS DEVELOPMENT: Develops technical tax planning solutions to optimize the organization's tax liabilities and risks, and implements complex tax planning ideas and process improvement initiatives, including objectives applicable to corporate and capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures, funding, trading and risk management, trade flow and supply chains, applying key tax attributes.
• TAX COUNSEL: Partners with and provides advice for business staff, managers, and controllers, communicates compliance policies and procedures to the organization's businesses, and provides training sessions for tax and non tax employees to support the development of a solid foundation of key tax principles.
• TAX RESEARCH & ANALYSIS: Conducts complex tax related research and analysis for the purpose of completing tax compliance responsibilities.
• AUDITS CONDUCTION & LEGAL DISPUTES RESOLUTION: Develops responses to complex audits and information requests from external taxing authorities for verification from senior team members, generates and compiles evidence for senior team members to verify in response to complex risk audits and information requests from external tax authorities, handles complex correspondence with external revenue bodies and inquiries from taxing authorities, and assists team members in defending the organization in legal disputes in court.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.