Global Tax Leader

Elessent Clean Technologies•St. Louis, MO

About The Position

Elessent Clean Technologies is a global leader in process technologies to drive sustainability and carbon neutrality in the metal, fertilizer, chemical, and oil refining industries with an unwavering commitment to customer support. We provide extensive global expertise across our portfolio of offerings in key applications – MECS® sulfuric acid production, STRATCO® alkylation, BELCO® wet scrubbing, and IsoTherming® hydroprocessing. Offering critical process equipment, products, technology, and services, we enable an array of industrial markets, including phosphate fertilizer, non-ferrous metals, oil refining, petrochemicals, and chemicals, to minimize their environmental impact and optimize productivity. We are dedicated to helping our customers produce high-quality products used in everyday life in the safest, most environmentally-sound way possible, with a vision to make the world a better place by creating clean alternatives to traditional industrial processes. The Tax Director reports to the CFO and is responsible for an organization's tax policies and objectives. Responsible for working with the businesses and corporate functions to implement tax planning strategies and optimize the company’s tax position. He/she will assist with the design of, and will actively manage changes to, structures in U.S., and non-U.S., jurisdictions. This will include providing US and international tax analysis; project management; drive any future legal step plan implementation and completing the tax compliance, tax accounting, transfer pricing reviews, to support acquisition integrations; foreign tax credit planning; internal reorganizations; permanent establishment management and similar initiatives. Build, directs and leads a team responsible for preparing and filing tax returns, statements, and other reports at required intervals. Monitors reporting and planning to ensure compliance with applicable tax statutes. Ensures accuracy of tax returns and works to minimize the organization's tax obligations. Monitors changes in federal, state, and local tax legislation and updates policies and procedures as needed. Requires a bachelor's degree in accounting or related discipline.

Requirements

Must be able to effectively bridge operating business models with legal entity structure and tax technical analysis, and be able to lead and coordinate tax issues across legal entities and global reporting structure
Conduct detailed business, tax, and financial analyses to identify potential problems and recommend appropriate solutions
Must be experienced in US and Foreign tax rules and regulations, and transfer pricing
Must be able to lead and coordinate tax analysis in support of planning initiatives
Demonstrated ability to effectively manage tax activities across multiple locations/countries and across functional teams
Attention to detail and strong organizational and project management skills are also critical, since an important responsibility of this position involves the management of highly complex projects that typically involve numerous subsidiaries, multiple countries and multiple, interrelated transactions
Analyze complicated issues (technically, legally, and numerically) and boil down to the key points, develop action plans, and implement
Be able to influence peers, subordinates, and superiors, while being a team player and open to the ideas of others. Clear communication skills are critical
Must have high intelligence and the ability to prioritize on a real-time basis
Experience in the tax aspects of acquisitions and divestitures, including due diligence and post-merger integration
Familiarity with OneSource Tax Reporting platform (Income Tax, Tax Provision, and Sales/Use Tax)
hands-on and detail-oriented, but also see the big picture
able to think strategically and view the business from a general management standpoint as well as from a financial and legal perspective
able to work well in a cross-functional, matrixed, decentralized organization
very customer focused
a professional who can deliver results and who must have strong interpersonal and communication skills
a team player who is well-versed in the details but capable of bridging knowledge gaps to team members at various levels of experience and in multiple jurisdictions
a quick study who can rapidly adapt to our culture and gain the confidence of the leadership team and board of directors
high energy and able to handle conflict
be an independent worker, capable of operating in a fast-moving, ever-changing environment and able to recommend tough, difficult business decisions
able to drive and manage change
be creative, culturally aware and possess a passion to excel
Graduate or undergraduate training in Accounting or Finance, JD or Master of Taxation from an accredited University; CPA highly desired
10 years of progressive and broad tax experience (including international tax) at a public accounting firm, law firm, or U.S. multinational company
Significant international experience is required, along with a strong global business perspective, while functioning in a multinational organization with multiple business units
Ability to travel internationally on occasion
Positions are open to candidates authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

Nice To Haves

CPA highly desired

Responsibilities

Analyze impact of new US tax law and identify opportunities and risk areas such as Banking and Foreign Exchange
Support as needed IRS, state and local tax audits
Stay current regarding Federal, state and local tax law changes
Oversee and perform tax return and preparation and payments (annual, quarterly, state/local, sales, use, withholding, etc)
Oversee transfer pricing documentation and preparation
Work closely with controllership in the regions/local countries
Stay current regarding tax law changes in the local countries
Manage tax-efficient inter-company financing and cash movements, including repatriation
Support as needed local country tax audits
Stay current regarding tax law changes in the local countries
Support local tax reporting (annual, quarterly, local book, VAT, etc)
Review and propose changes to corporate structure and intra-company relationships to optimize tax obligations legally and ethically
Work with/advise the business on designing, coordinating, and implementing planning opportunities, reorganizations, acquisitions, divestitures, etc., leveraging internal and external resources.
Successfully support functional and operating unit leaders to understand and improve tax results on a sustainable basis
Provide appropriate communication and direction to ensure proper financial and tax reporting, reflecting the impact of implemented tax planning strategies; both U.S. and foreign
Work closely with treasury, controllership, and legal teams to ensure internal protocols are followed with respect to cash movements, loans, and legal documentation, and maintained for tax planning initiatives
Regularly communicate to senior leadership tax issues and opportunities
Efficiently and effectively design, capture, execute, document, and communicate tax planning to the accounting, compliance, controllership, and treasury teams
Conduct quantitative analysis to support decisions taken
Lead tax analysis of business portfolio changes, such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, etc
Lead post-merger/acquisition tax integration of legal entities
Manage tax-efficient inter-company financing and cash movements, including repatriation