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Tax Lead, Americas

Finastra

Lake Mary, FL

#10260

Position summary

of tax returns for all Finastra's US and Canadian entities, including complex consolidated and separate US federal, state and local returns.

  • Leading by example and driving the development and continuous improvements in tax policies, processes, and systems for tax reporting across the region.

  • Ownership for the identification of opportunities to optimize our tax affairs, including the modelling of BEAT, FDII, s.163J, other corporate interest restrictions, tax credits, and pro-active management of tax attributes.

  • Provide metric-driven confidence on the overall governance and efficiencies of the region's tax reporting and compliance, including driving improvements in ETR forecasting, modelling of impact of changes and enhanced insights and analytics to support decision making.

  • Drive forward any enquiries with the IRS and the CRA, working collaboratively with other team members across the organization to bring them to an effective close.

Required Experience:

  • CPA/chartered accountant or chartered tax advisor

  • Experience (8+ years) of leading US consolidated tax reporting and compliance for a global complex multi-national organization with a history of M&A, additional Canadian tax expertise preferred.

  • Exceptional ASC740 technical tax accounting expertise including purchase accounting.

  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders and to drive complex transformations involving cross-functional teams

  • Strong writing, analytical, and oral presentation skills including creativity in presentation materials

  • Ability to develop and drive process improvements across global taxes, including development of a global tax controls framework, monitoring metrics and operation of effective controls.

  • Leads by example by striving to innovate, introducing best practices and championing control standards to allow the organization to achieve optimal standards of tax reporting.

  • Advanced excel skills and an ability to understand end to end tax processes and systems.

Due to the requirements of this position, this job posting is not available for, and Finastra will not be considering any, applicants from New York City.