VP, Corporate Tax

Travelers•Hartford, CT

17h

About The Position

Under broad oversight, the VP, Corporate Tax is responsible for leading, adapting, and executing highly complex and strategic state and local tax functions for insurance companies. This includes oversight of insurance premium taxes, licenses, and regulatory fees, while ensuring compliance with evolving state and local tax requirements. The role requires deep expertise in insurance State taxation, strong leadership capabilities, and extensive experience managing premium tax matters across multiple states and municipalities.

Requirements

A Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.
Experience with relevant tax software.
Knowledge of state and local taxation of insurance companies
Demonstrated ability to build trust and credibility with a wide range of stakeholders.
Able to act in accordance with stated values; follows through on promises; uses ethical considerations to guide decisions and actions.
Able to take responsibility for decisions and actions while understanding the business and responds to all related issues, concerns and problems.
Able to understand and leverage internal resources to accomplish goals and objectives.
Able to achieve actionable results through others, build and maintain strong and sustainable business relationships, and interact with all levels, both internal and external, to accomplish results.
Able to provide strategic solutions tailored to meet business objectives.
Able to utilize strong analytical and technical skills to effectively create recommendations, influence decision-making, assess impacts, compare solutions, problem solve, and achieve business and/or technical objectives.
Master relationship management, collaboration, networking and negotiation skills.
Master written and verbal communication skills across all management levels, both internally and externally.
Master presentation skills and proven ability to communicate persuasively and influence decision-making.
Able to express ideas clearly and concisely; disseminate information about decisions, plans and activities.
Able to proactively assess potential financial impacts of decisions across the enterprise, makes recommendations and acts when appropriate to implement.
Able to demonstrate sound cost-effectiveness.
Able to drive cost-reduction measures through innovative and creative solutions.
Able to inspire and promote a vision.
Able to understand the political nature of the organization and works appropriately within it; effectively establishes collaborative relationships and alliances throughout the organization.
Proven ability to lead a large organization and work in a team environment.
Supports management decisions and proactively acts as a change champion.
Able to welcome innovative ideas and is open to other views.
Able to act as a good role model for employees and keeps a positive attitude.
Able to persuade and motivate others.
Skilled at influencing superiors.
Able to effectively influence across multiple teams, senior leaders, organizations, and the enterprise.
Strong ability to influence upward and lead others into “new” ways of doing things.
Ability to negotiate across Enterprise.
Able to identify critical deliverables and establish clear priorities while keeping the overall enterprise vision in mind.
Able to propose action plans that are timely, realistic and positive while meeting leadership expectations.
Accountable for setting appropriate goals for the area and ensuring progress against the plan.
Able to manage time and competing priorities, understands how projects fit within [area, business, organizational] objectives, and delegates appropriately to maximize organizational effectiveness.
Able to lead by example, while encouraging ownership environment and consistently setting clear direction, goals and priorities for team.
Able to balance organizational, team, and individual responsibilities.
Able to put success of organization and team above own interest.
Able to give and welcome feedback.
Eleven years of relevant corporate tax experience or public accounting tax experience.
6 years of management experience.
Advanced knowledge of tax concepts, research and compliance.
Intermediate knowledge of computer application software, particularly spreadsheets.
Ability to clearly articulate complex tax issues orally and in writing to various levels of management, as well as outside parties such as government tax auditors and various state officials.
Advanced project management skills.
Demonstrated advanced communication and presentation skills.
Ability to interact effectively with others across functions and levels across enterprise.
Demonstrated ability to influence others across functional area and potentially across enterprise.
Advanced ability to think strategically.
Advanced leadership skills required, including ability to leverage differences, manage in a participative manner, manage change effectively, develop employees, inspire others and promote a vision.

Responsibilities

Assist in organization-wide corporate state and local tax planning and preparation activities, including negotiation and litigation activities.
Direct subordinates in a manner that minimizes the state and local tax liability and the impact of taxes on the financial statements while complying with tax law and financial accounting standards.
Identifies changes in state and local tax law and tax accounting rules to determine impact on the company.
Oversee the preparation, research, and review of state and local tax returns consistent with management philosophy and tax law requirements.
Review models and provide guidance and support to identify, analyze and assess tax risks and opportunities.
Identify state and local tax effects of prior and proposed business transactions for the purpose of developing the most favorable tax position.
Consultation with auditors, lawyers, and regulatory agencies on tax matters.
Aligns and leverages enterprise resources to accomplish key objectives; assigns clear accountability for important objectives.
Understands the perspectives of different functional areas in the organization; has a firm grasp of external conditions affecting the organization.
Uses effective strategies to facilitate organizational change initiatives and overcome resistance to change.
Seizes new opportunities and consistently generates new ideas; introduces and creates needed change even in the face of opposition.
Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.
Set work objectives and goals for employees and manages performance.
Fosters a collaborative, ethical, and inclusive culture/work environment.
Perform other duties as assigned.