Associate Tax Director - Indirect Tax

A global leader in the manufacturing industry has a unique opportunity with this new created role within indirect tax. This is a hybrid role being in the office at max 3 days a week and so will require someone who is either local and can commute or willing to relocate. Relocation will be offered should that be something you require.

This role is responsible for managing the tax technical issues related to sales, use and property tax, managing state and local audits, and supporting the US businesses and Shared Service Center responsible for indirect tax compliance.
Responsibilities
· Review contracts and business situations to identify risk and mitigate costs/risk related to indirect transactions.
· Coordinate and support indirect tax audits
· Coordinate and work with Shared Service Center to support questions relating to US indirect tax filings
· Work with the business teams to operations to identify opportunities to minimize indirect taxes
· Answer/research taxability questions on transactions for indirect matters
· Support businesses on property tax related due diligence for mergers, acquisitions & dispositions
· Lead implementations of process improvements and best practices
· Responsible for maintenance of Vertex Tax Decision Maker

Qualifications
· Bachelor's Degree in Finance / Accounting, MST degree or courses a plus
· 10+ years of Sales Tax experience and dealing with multistate tax issues in either a large industry or Big 4 Public Accounting
· Experience using Vertex or other sales tax software
· Prior experience managing a team preferred
· Ability to work cross functionally in a matrix organization
· Ability to drive value and minimize tax within the sales tax function
· Strong project management skills
· Strong communication skills and demonstrated experience with driving process improvement
· Property tax knowledge/experience a plus
· Experience / knowledge of non-US indirect tax a plus (i.e., VAT, GST)

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