Senior Director, Global Tax Operations

About the role

Avantor’s Accounting team is seeking a progressive and forward-thinking tax leader to join as the Senior Director of Global Tax Operations. In this pivotal role, you will lead the Global Tax Operations and Reporting team, overseeing global tax accounting, tax reporting, and tax compliance. The position reports to the SVP, Tax and is a hybrid role requiring onsite presence at Avantor’s corporate headquarters in Radnor, PA three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global tax provision and related SEC disclosures, ensuring compliance with ASC 740.
• Responsible for the global consolidated tax provision, quarterly filings, and preparation and review of the tax footnote and related disclosures.
• Ensure analytics and accuracy of the reported effective tax rate components as well as the forecasted effective tax rate and cash taxes globally.
• Drive continuous process improvements to streamline the global tax accounting process.
• Oversee controls and ensure processes, documentation, and related systems are in compliance with Sarbanes Oxley requirements.
• Lead the US federal, state, and Canadian income tax compliance function and manage the global tax compliance and support function through a combination of managing in-house tax professionals and outsourced teams.
• Champion operational excellence through process improvement, leveraging best practices, supporting the evolution of tax software tools, and promoting automation and technology to enhance efficiency and scalability.
• Develop, recommend, and implement a transformation strategy to expand the tax operations function globally.
• Lead the global tax operations team with a growth mentality and mentor tax team members to promote a high-performance culture emphasizing collaboration, professional development, and strategic thinking.
• Collaborate with the Senior Director – Global Tax Planning on tax planning, global tax controversy, internal restructurings, mergers and acquisition, and new business initiatives to understand all impacts to and considerations for the Tax Operations function.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal partners and peers (including FP&A, controllership, treasury, and legal) and external consultants and statutory auditors.
• Collaborate in the leadership of the entire tax organization by advising and providing guidance and input on various organizational matters and strategic organization design; learn and understand how all functions within the Tax department contribute to the business.
• Utilize complex income tax concepts in both an Internal Revenue and FASB context including pensions, revenue & expense recognition, and purchase accounting to support SVP with other teams to provide tax technical input in the implementation of processes related to deployment of new tax strategies and initiatives.
• Lead various cross-functional initiatives within the finance organization.
• Perform other tax-related tasks as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or a tax-related field.
• Master's in tax, LLM, or a comparable advanced degree is strongly preferred.
• 15+ years of diverse tax experience in a fast-paced environment, including Big 4 accounting firm experience and corporate/in-house experience with a US-based multinational public company.

Who You Are

• Strong commercial mindset and extensive experience with domestic income tax compliance, indirect taxes, and tax accounting and reporting under ASC 740 for public US-based multinational corporations.
• Strong understanding of accounting methods, stock compensation, FDII, GILTI, and other US and state tax positions impacting US-based multinational public companies.
• Experience with managing automated processes and using tax technology effectively.
• Demonstrated ability to be hands-on, resourceful, detail-oriented, and results-oriented.
• Proven experience in leading, managing, developing, and motivating a high-performance, diverse team.
• Excellent writing, communication, and presentation skills to convey complex tax matters with simplicity and clarity to non-experts across the organization.