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Tax Manager, Tax Reporting/ FAS 109 (San Jose, CA)
Our 2B high technology client is a highly successful and profitable company that has earned one of the finest reputations in Silicon Valley. The Manager, Tax Reporting/FAS109 will provide key technical support to the worldwide tax accounting and reporting team, including the global tax compliance team. You will provide support to the worldwide tax compliance team including US tax compliance review and statutory submissions; US tax provision reviews and international submissions; maintenance and compliance of key SOX controls related to US tax reporting; and assist in building audit files to document, define, illustrate, educate and archive US Federal and State tax return work papers.
The Manager, Tax Reporting must have a minimum of five to eight years of tax accounting and tax compliance experience, including strong organizational, The Director, Tax Reporting must have ten to fifteen years of expert knowledge of US GAAP accounting and a working knowledge of IFAS (IAS 12). written and verbal communication skills. A BS, CPA is preferred along with work experience in a national public accounting firm, and or a multinational corporation.

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Tax Manager / Senior Tax Manager ASC 740 (FAS109) (Southern California)
This position will be part of a team of dedicated individuals responsible for overall GAAP reporting of income taxes. The Tax Manager / Senior Tax Manager of ASC 740 (FAS109) will be responsible for helping to maintain the corporate effective tax rate and all related financial reporting and disclosures, including Fin48, ASC 805 (FAS141R), and ASC 718 (FAS123R), as well as reviewing tax balance sheet account reconciliations and quarterly tax reporting packages received from international legal entities. This individual will also support the Domestic Tax Director in compliance with worldwide tax aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley, including oversight of the policies, procedures and global documentation. This position will interact with senior management and business leaders within the organization. This role can be either a tax manager or senior manager depending on the strength and experience of the candidate.This position requires an individual with a minimum of 7 years of combined public accounting and or corporate tax experience. A successful candidate will have strong analytical ability, excellent interpersonal skills, and be able to collaborate effectively with accounting, forecasting, and other tax team members. Interested candidates should feel comfortable in a fast paced complex multinational organization. Individual should be prepared to lead the process, but be willing to take a hands on approach to preparation of work product as needed. Position requires a BA/BS in accounting or finance as well as a masters degree in taxation or a CPA.

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Tax Counsel- Domestic (Twin Cities) Our client is a Twin Cities multinational conglomerate with domestic and international operations throughout more than fifty countries globally. This highly visible position operates as Tax Counsel to an exceptionally talented management team. The Tax Counsel will be a member of a global tax planning team and will have specific responsibility for tax planning for an assigned part of the Europe, Africa, and Middle East (EMEA) region. These responsibilities will include mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate structure, trading patterns and finance, transfer pricing, dividend and foreign tax credit planning, tax controversies and audits for all legal entities and business units operating in the assigned region. Candidate will also be responsible not only for providing U.S. tax advice but for understanding and managing local tax advice, litigation, audits and local tax strategies in collaboration with the local tax manager. Individual will also be responsible for coordinating advice and strategies with other members of the global tax function, including compliance functions. Key responsibilities will include: Tax planning: provide tax advice to business units and functions with an emphasis on operations in Latin America. Tax planning entails development, issue identification, development of alternative solutions, recommendation to business unit and functions, assistance with implementation and if necessary post-implementation review; Tax planning: provide tax advice to other members of the Tax Planning Group; Tax controversies: assist with development of legal arguments and management of external resources in connection with audit and litigation in the U.S. and selected EMEA jurisdictions; Tax training: provide ad hoc and continuous training to business units and functions on key tax initiatives and policies. Tax reporting and compliance: assist International and Federal group with complex U.S. reporting issues. This position requires an individual with a minimum of 4+ years of tax planning experience with a major law firm or Big Four public accounting firm. The individual’s experience must translate into an in-depth understanding of U.S. taxation of international transactions and U.S. taxation of mergers and acquisitions as well as the ability to model and optimize outcomes. Additional experience in taxation of partnerships, financial products, income tax accounting and tax procedure / reporting is desirable. Position requires ability to identify and resolve issues associated with complex international transaction without assistance of a third party. Individual must possess writing skills acquired through legal training as well as work on I.R.S. rulings, appeals and/or litigation. Individual should have experience managing relationships with law firms and accounting firms. Candidate must be willing and able to continue to learn the developing areas of tax laws. International work experience in candidate is desired. Individual must possess a JD. An MBA or other degree in quantitative area will be highly desired (e.g., economics or finance). Some travel required. Foreign language ability and experience is a plus.

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Tax Counsel (Twin Cities Area)
The Tax Counsel will be a member of the company’s tax planning team and will have specific responsibility for domestic tax planning. These responsibilities will include mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate structures, finance, tax controversies and audits for domestic legal entities and business units. The Tax Counsel will provide U.S. tax advice including managing local tax advice, litigation, audits and local tax strategies with other members of the tax team, including the tax compliance function.Key responsibilities include tax planning, provide tax advice to business units and functions, issue identification and development of alternative solutions, recommendations to business units and functions, assistance with implementation and when necessary post-implementation reviews, assist with the development of legal arguments and management of external resources in connection with audit litigation, and provide ad hoc and continuous training to business units on key tax initiatives and policies.This role requires an individual with a minimum of four plus year’s tax planning experience with a major law firm or a Big Four Public Accounting firm. The individuals experience must translate into an in-depth understanding of domestic transactions and mergers and acquisitions, including the ability to model and optimize outcomes. Prefer experience in taxation of corporations, partnerships, financial products, income tax accounting and tax procedures and reporting. You must have the ability to identify and resolve issues associated with complex domestic transactions with a third party. You must have outstanding written and verbal communication skills and organizational skills acquired through legal training as well as work on I.R.S rulings, appeals and/or litigation. You should have experience managing relationships with law firms and accounting firms. A BS, JD, with an LLM is required with a CPA and or MBA highly desirable.

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Tax Partner (Chicago, IL)
Our client is one of the world’s largest law firms with operations throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. The firm is compromised of more than three thousand lawyers across twenty-two countries. They are organized to provide services to a wide range of clients throughout the world. The Tax Partner will focus principally on issues related to the US taxation of foreign operations. The Tax Partner will be responsible for advising clients on tax matters relating to the formulation, operation and disposition of international business operations. This individual will take a leading role in developing new international tax planning ideas for the firm’s clients with an emphasis on improving the firm’s existing client relationships. In addition, the individual will be responsible for the development and maintenance of new clients with high importance placed on adding value to their international operations. This position requires an individual with experience in a law firm or a public accounting firm, preferably with a client base. Additionally, this position requires an individual with effective marketing skills and the ability to manage and develop new clients. The Tax Partner must be technically competent in International corporate taxation. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required. The role requires that you have a law degree and have passed the state bar with an LLM and/or CPA preferred.

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Director of Tax Accounting (Naperville, IL)
Our client is the world’s leading water treatment and process improvement company delivering significant environmental, social and economic performance benefits to a variety of industrial and institutional customers. The company generates 4 Billion in revenue annually and has more than 70,000 customers throughout more than one hundred thirty countries around the world. The Director of Tax Accounting is responsible for proposing financial statement positions and related footnote disclosures to the Vice President Tax. This individual will manage external audit reporting as related to tax disclosures and analyze the financial reporting of the company’s global operations. They will manage the US tax accruals at entity level, analyze global tax aspects of the business plan process and will function as the tax contact for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. The Director of Tax Accounting will assist the Vice President Tax on tax planning and other special projects. The role requires an individual with a minimum of seven years of experience with SEC reporting related to global tax accounts of a multinational corporation. The individual must possess strong accounting, analytical and communication skills. A BS in Accounting is required with a MST or CPA preferred.

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Tax Director (Norcross, GA)
The primary objectives of this role will be overseeing the tax planning, compliance and research for both privately held S and C corporations. Responsibilities will include the following: Manage the compliance process both internally and externally, working with Corporate Tax Staff and Corporate Accounting providing financial statements and tax work papers to outside Tax Preparers to ensure early filing of returns; Manage and review FAS 109 work for corporate audits; Implement and manage FIN 48 process for all corporate entities; Manage tax planning and compliance related to new product development; Coordinate effective corporate tax planning to minimize taxes to owner; Manage and review quarterly estimated tax projections for corporate entities to ensure calculations signed off 2 weeks prior to deadline.This role requires a tax professional with a minimum of ten years of experience with five years in a managerial role. Strong knowledge of partnership and S corporations required. Must have experience with multi-state work. Individual must be a planner preferring to be proactive rather that reactive; Individual must have the ability to work independently and have the willingness to role up their sleeves to complete projects; Strong written and oral communication skills with the initiative to learn new areas of tax. This role requires an individual with a Bachelors Degree in Accounting, with an MST and CPA referred.

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Senior Manager, International Tax Planning (New York)
This highly visible role is responsible for identifying, developing, analyzing, researching and implementing tax planning initiatives in connection with the company’s international business operations. Responsibilities also to include transactions, mergers and acquisitions and restructurings that contribute to achieving the lowest sustainable effective and cash tax rates. The ideal candidate should have significant experience in corporate reorganizations, international mergers and acquisitions and subpart F planning. They will also provide tax advice to the business regarding the ongoing international operations and transactions. This individual will assist in performing due diligence and in identifying tax synergies required to value potential international targets as well as work with compliance group to properly report the tax planning. The role requires this individual to maintain focus on continuing to develop technical tax expertise and deep knowledge of the business as well as develop leadership skills through team based initiatives and managing interdisciplinary projects. The role requires an individual with a minimum of six years of international experience in a law firm, “Big 4” or equivalent environment. The individual must possess strong international research and analytical skills and a solid tax technical background including cross border structuring and subpart F planning. Individual must have strong communication and interpersonal skills, be self motivated, enjoy working with finance and business people outside the tax department and have the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously. The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background with a JD; an LLM in Taxation is preferred but not required. An exceptional candidate with a CPA will also be considered; Masters in Taxation a plus but not required.

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International Tax Executive Searches

Tax Managers/Tax Controllers (Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK)
Our US multinational clients are currently seeking Tax Managers/Tax Controllers who will be responsible for tax compliance, tax reporting and tax planning. These roles will support the U.S parent’s special initiatives in coordination with their headquarters tax department. The technical responsibilities in these roles will include deferred income tax for financial statements provided under FAS 109, ensuring the maintenance of intercompany pricing agreements and local country direct and indirect taxes. These roles require a minimum of six to ten years corporate tax experience within a combined public accounting and private industry environment. Training in Big Four public accounting environment is required with a Chartered Accountant/Certified Public Accountant degree preferred. Our clients are in energy, financial services and high technology manufacturing.

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