Senior Global Director – Tax and Audit

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee the Tax and Audit function while leading the global tax strategy.

• Manage tax compliance, transfer pricing, indirect taxes, statutory audits, partnerships with external auditors, U.S. benefit plan audits, acquisition integration, and risks associated with tax and audit.

• Establish scalable governance for tax and audit to support growth from 11 countries to over 20.

• Create and maintain global calendars for tax compliance and audits.

• Supervise global tax advisors, audit partners, statutory audit firms, and local service providers.

• Collaborate with Accounting and FP&A on tax provisions, cash tax forecasting, deferred tax assessments, uncertain tax positions, tax accounting, and reporting to the board or investors.

• Take ownership of global audit governance, which includes consolidated financial statement audits, country statutory audits, defining audit scope, managing fees and milestones, handling escalations, and issuing audited financial statements.

• Coordinate statutory audits and ensure local statutory accounts are meticulously prepared, reviewed, approved, filed, and issued punctually.

• Promote audit readiness across Finance, HR, Legal, IT, and local teams in each country.

• Supervise U.S. benefit plan audits and related regulatory reporting obligations.

• Monitor audit findings, control deficiencies, filing issues, recommendations, and remediation commitments.

• Lead tax workstreams for acquisitions, encompassing diligence, inputs for purchase accounting, structure reviews, integration strategies, and assessments of inherited tax exposures.

• Develop and oversee internal controls related to financial reporting.

• Design and advocate for global transfer pricing policies, intercompany agreements, service fee frameworks, and management charge models.

• Provide guidance to business leaders regarding tax implications of entering new countries, contracts, cross-border resources, permanent establishment risks, payroll taxes, and entity rationalization.

• Establish tax controls, documentation standards, escalation procedures, and governance processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Tax, Finance, Business, or a related field is required.

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in tax, audit, controllership, statutory reporting, or financial compliance is essential.

• Experience must include multinational corporate tax, transfer pricing, indirect tax, tax compliance, coordination of external audits, management of statutory audits, and oversight of external advisors.

• Prior experience in supporting acquisition integration, global expansion, professional services, project-based business models, audit committee reporting, remediation of management letters, U.S. benefit plan audits, and coordination of multi-country external auditors is preferred.

• Professional certifications such as CPA, JD, LLM in Tax, Chartered Tax Advisor, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent are strongly preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health and wellness programs.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.