Director of Tax

Key Responsibilities

• Manage, review, and coordinate the Company’s worldwide income tax compliance, including:
• Supervise global tax service providers and internal teams to validate data accuracy, reconcile tax balances, and ensure adherence to corporate tax policies.
• Lead and oversee global income tax compliance processes across all regions to ensure accurate, timely, and complete filing in accordance with local requirements.
• Carefully coordinate with Regional finance teams and external advisors to review, approve, and submit corporate income tax returns, filings, and all compliance obligations.
• Manage and provide strategic oversight for tax audits as they arise.
• Direct and manage the Company’s worldwide income tax provision, including:
• Overall responsibility for quarterly and annual reporting calculations and financial statement disclosures under ASC 740/ IFRS standards.
• Oversee foreign income tax reporting.
• Maintain SOX control compliance and proactive input in the design and implementation of changes to the controls framework to drive optimization.
• Monitor, analyze, and report changes to US and foreign tax laws and regulations to determine the financial statement impact.
• Network and collaborate with worldwide finance organizations to continually plan and improve the quarterly and annual reporting processes and implement any process improvements.
• Oversight and augmentation of procedures around identification and documentation of necessary valuation allowances and/or uncertain tax positions worldwide.
• Continue to drive efficiencies in the worldwide processes to reduce timelines while maintaining the reliability/integrity of work products.
• Drive the management and development of VGO’s worldwide tax department as a world-class organization, effective in demonstrating good faith, timely reporting to all applicable jurisdictions, while continuing to optimize the Company’s overall tax profile.
• Responsible for the identification, development, and implementation of tax planning opportunities to continue to optimize both the Company’s worldwide effective tax rate and cash tax outlay.
• Assist with planning, structuring, and reporting of acquisitions and divestitures, including, among other things, modeling of the tax implications of a transaction, financing, purchase accounting, and/or 338 elections.
• Identify process and efficiency improvement opportunities, including but not limited to the use of technology for data collection and analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance
• Minimum of 10-15 years of income tax experience managing and developing a diverse group of tax professionals
• Expertise in complex federal and international tax concepts applicable to corporations
• Experienced manager/reviewer of ASC 740 preparation and analysis
• Significant experience in managing and preparing income tax returns both in the US and abroad.
• US state and local tax experience.
• Experience with tax research software, i.e., CCH, BNA, etc.
• Experience with tax compliance and provision software (specifically the ONESOURCE Tax suite of products)
• SAP skills a plus as well
• Strong MS Excel skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong project management skills
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team