Principal, Tax

About the role

At Prosci, we are creating a new Principal, Tax role to bring dedicated senior-level ownership, expertise, and leadership to tax areas, with tax as the core focus of the role. Reporting into the Director, Corporate Controller, this is a high-impact leadership role with significant visibility across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Tax: Policy, Planning & Technical Oversight
• Tax Strategy & Governance: Lead global tax strategy, policy development, and technical governance across all jurisdictions, including compliance visibility and documented policy positions
• Transfer Pricing: Own the global transfer pricing framework, including policy design, intercompany pricing documentation, and defense of intercompany arrangements with tax authorities
• Techical Tax Review: Review significant tax filings and positions across key jurisdictions before filing
• Tax Planning: Drive global tax planning initiatives, including IP structuring, interest deductibility, R&D incentives, treaty utilization, and other optimization opportunities
• Tax Audit Defense: Lead all tax authority interactions and audit defense globally, coordinating with external advisors and keeping the Corporate Controller informed
• Regulatory Monitoring: Monitor global tax and regulatory developments, including Pillar Two, VAT / GST changes, and US tax developments, and advise leadership on enterprise implications
• External Vendor Management: Manage all external tax vendor and advisor relationships, including scope, engagement, fees, and performance, ensuring an appropriately scoped and cost-effective advisor network across all jurisdictions
• Uncertain Tax Positions: Identify, assess, and document uncertain tax positions; maintain the UTP register and ensure appropriate ASC 740 treatment in the financial statements

Requirements

• Business Acumen: Connects tax decisions to enterprise financial outcomes, including EBITDA, cash flow, and effective tax rate
• Technical Judgment: Makes defensible calls on uncertain tax positions, transfer pricing methods, and contested technical tax matters
• Action Oriented: Manages critical deadlines and complex deliverables with consistency, accuracy, and strong judgment
• Stakeholder Influence: Partners credibly with the Corporate Controller, Sr. Controllers, lenders, and external counsel
• Organized and Detail Oriented: Maintains disciplined oversight of multi-jurisdiction compliance, governance, and policy requirements that other functions depend on
• International tax: Transfer pricing, cross-border structures, and multi-jurisdiction compliance oversight
• Entity rationalization / M&A integration: Wound down or merged legal entities and understands the sequencing of legal, tax, and accounting steps
• Technical tax writing: Produces defensible uncertain tax position memos and transfer pricing policy documentation
• Accounting fluency: Substantive conversations with the Corporate Controller and Sr. Controllers on how tax positions flow through the financial statements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field required; CPA required; advanced degree in tax (MST, LLM in Taxation) preferred but not required
• 10-14 years of progressive international tax experience, including meaningful in-house or advisory leadership
• Strong U.S. tax experience required, with demonstrated exposure to complex multi-jurisdiction environments. Experience in Latin America (LATAM) tax is highly preferred due to the complexity of the region
• Demonstrated hands-on experience leading global tax operations, transfer pricing, and tax audit defense across multiple jurisdictions

Additional Preferences

• Big 4 or national firm background in international tax, M&A tax, tax controversy, or technical accounting/audit
• Multi-GAAP fluency: practical experience applying IFRS and US GAAP (and local GAAP) in a multinational group
• Statutory audit experience: leading group and local statutory audits across multiple regions
• PE-backed business experience: familiarity with sponsor reporting requirements and the tax sensitivity of EBITDA and cash flow metrics
• European tax experience: UK, French, Belgian, or German corporate tax and VAT working knowledge
• ASC 740 (income tax accounting) experience: provision preparation or review
• IP holding structures and licensing arrangements across jurisdictions