Tax Director & Counsel, NAM

Diageo

156d

About The Position

The Tax job family encompasses global roles accountable for the design and implementation of tax strategies, policies and the tax governance framework. It also includes the provision of tax support to Diageo’s business units, delivery of projects to create shareholder value, and proactive management and mitigation of key tax risks, compliance and reporting. The Tax Director & Counsel is a strategic advisor to the tax team and our customers, ensuring compliance with complex US federal, state and local tax laws, and ensures Diageo’s US tax posture remains defensible and aligned with business goals, and stays ahead of legislative and regulatory changes. The role provides tax support on M&A transactions, restructurings, and other commercial transactions and business initiatives/projects. The role is responsible for driving North American (NAM) tax strategy and planning and supports Group Tax strategy. The role is also primarily responsible for management of transfer pricing policy and issues within the NAM market, and provides support on federal tax audits, material state tax audits and other tax controversies.

Requirements

• Approximately 8+ years corporate tax experience in advisory and/or in-house tax department (preferably both)
• Big 4 experience preferred
• 2+ years of tax M&A experience
• JD required
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in accounting or finance
• Masters or equivalent experience in Tax/LLM in Tax a plus
• Strong tax technical knowledge across a broad range of taxes
• Strong legal research and writing
• Strong financial modelling and tax accounting knowledge
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to communicate complex tax issues to senior management
• Excellent interpersonal, business partnering and influencing skills
• Commercially astute; analytically strong critical thinking with global perspective
• Imaginative and solution oriented
• Able to balance a diverse and complex agenda
• Energy and drive to cut through and make things happen

Responsibilities

• Lead tax interaction on all NAM business development and commercial transactions
• Coordinate with Legal and Government Relations to proactively develop advocacy strategies and responses to legislative and regulatory tax proposals
• Track legislative and regulatory tax developments impacting the NAM market and Group Tax strategy, and provide timely communications to internal customers on considerations and proposed actions and mitigation strategies; coordinate with Finance on tax modelling to quantify tax impacts of new tax proposals
• Drive NAM tax strategy and planning
• Support global tax objectives including global strategy, planning and transactions, as well as implementation of tax policies throughout the business
• Provide support on federal and state and local tax audits
• Coordinate with Legal on tax litigation matters
• Draft tax technical memoranda
• Manage transfer pricing policy for NAM and review documentation
• Provide coaching to develop team knowledge and serve as a resource for deep technical expertise to members of Group Tax

Benefits

• Healthcare benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Wellness benefits
• Industry leading parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Master's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees