International Tax and Transfer Pricing Manager

Quaker Houghton•Conshohocken, PA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The International Tax and Transfer Pricing Manager will be a key contributor to the corporate tax organization of Quaker Houghton. This role is responsible for leading the global transfer pricing strategy and documentation, while also supporting international tax compliance and cross-border tax matters across Quaker Houghton’s global footprint. The position involves collaboration with the global finance team and operational stakeholders to ensure subsidiaries adhere to global transfer pricing policies and to drive continuous improvement in the complexity of the Company’s global footprint. The manager will help build internal scalable processes, controls, and documentation to support the expanding global business and the Global Tax function. Additionally, this role will support the tax team in areas such as income tax accounting, tax compliance, SOX controls, audit/advocacy management, research, and planning. The ideal candidate is technically strong, commercially minded, and comfortable in a fast-growing, multinational environment. This position reports directly to the Vice President of Tax and is based at the corporate headquarters in Conshohocken, PA. The role also offers opportunities to assist in special projects and U.S. federal, state/local, and international tax planning, including process improvement, entity integration, acquisition integration, divestiture and joint venture planning, new legislation planning, consolidations, 10K/10Q reporting, and management reporting.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required with emphasis in accounting or other financial discipline; CPA required.
Requires at least 5 years of public and/or multinational corporate experience in the field of taxation, particularly in the area of transfer pricing.
Experience with U.S. international tax preferred.
Experience supporting transfer pricing documentation, benchmarking studies, inter-company arrangements and tax authority enquiries
Strong excel skills, with familiarity using ERP Software, Consolidation tools, tax software and data tools such as Power BI or other such tools
Hard working individual who takes accountability for their work product and has a continuous improvement mindset
Strong project management skills as well as with written and oral communication.
Able to perform a variety of tasks, and lead/direct the work of others.
Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and the ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

Ownership of transfer pricing activity across a range of intercompany transactions including services, tangible property sales, intellectual property and cost-sharing arrangements
Maintain and prepare Quaker Houghton’s global transfer pricing policies including integration of acquisition into a consolidated policy across all business lines
Responsibility for providing information to 3rd party service providers for preparation of Master File and Local File documentation
Preparation and maintenance of global and regional management fee calculations including documentation, collection of information and support for global entities
Monitoring international tax developments including Pillar Two, withholding taxes, treaty positions, cross-border expansion matters and ever-changing transfer pricing guidance
Support large-scale supply-chain transformations, principal structures and other cross-border structures
Evaluate cash tax impacts and financial statement effects of transfer pricing design
Support transfer pricing positions during global tax audits through preparation of responses and being the subject matter expert on behalf of Quaker Houghton
Assist with preparation of US International Tax aspects such as FDDEI, NCTI, QBAI, and Foreign Tax Credits
Assist with analysis related to US Tax compliance related to international entities for areas such as Schedule M Reporting, earnings and profits and expense allocation
Partner with Finance Systems, Accounting, Treasury, FP&A, Legal and Operations to improve tax reporting, controls, and compliance workflows
Discover opportunities to improve inter-company processes, reduce complexity and optimize the Company’s global profile
Identify and execute opportunities for automation, dashboards and data tools across the transfer pricing processes
Liaise with 3rd party advisors to support transfer pricing integration, updates to transfer pricing policies and other special projects identified
Review/assist in the measurement of and accounting for uncertain tax positions related to transfer pricing.