GENERAL PURPOSE OF THE JOB:
This job will be responsible for supporting the FAS109 function as well as the preparation of Domestic and Foreign income tax returns.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Ability to lead and direct associates.
• Must be punctual and meet attendance requirements.
• Must be able to accept direction.
• Must be able to work well with fellow associates (or be an integral part of the team).
• Ability to work for a number of executives.
• May be required to perform additional duties as assigned by supervision.
• Support the FAS109 function by preparing book/tax differences, tax account rollforwards, foreign branch tax provisions, and supporting footnote schedules.
• Prepare Federal income tax return proformas for separate legal entities.
• Supervise the preparation of the foreign branch income tax returns and annual reports; Puerto Rico, Guam, and Virgin Islands.
• Prepare and review Form 5471s.
• Assist with the preparation of Canadian income tax returns.
• Prepare state and local income tax returns.
• Special projects as required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
Bachelor's Degree; CPA and/or Advanced Degree preferred

TECHNICAL SKILLS, CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:
Periods of internal and external deadlines. Overtime required during peak busy periods, usually February, March, and September.
Benefits:

Health Care, Dental and Vision benefits
401K
Foot Locker Retirement Plan
Stock Purchase Plan
Life Insurance.

JOB DESCRIPTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES

This position is for a Senior Tax Manager – Income Tax Compliance. The Senior Manager – Income Tax Compliance will report directly to the Vice President of Tax and work closely with colleagues within the tax function as well as the business units and the finance and accounting function in general. The position has an ongoing group of people to lead and manage. This tax practice area has ongoing work and process requirements as dictated by outside governmental agencies and Company operational requirements. The senior manager will be responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of all governmental filings required in his or her area and the related communication and coordination with affected business areas.   Specifically, the area is responsible for preparing and filing an accurate annual federal corporate consolidated income tax return and about 10 partnership returns, the related 500 or so state income and franchise tax returns, and all related estimated tax filings and payments. The position and compliance area are also expected to support special projects, quarterly and annual accounting for income tax requirements, and routine tax questions.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Interacts with all members of the overall tax department and supervises assigned staff with regard to the following:

• Contributes to internal client satisfaction by providing internal clients with timely, responsive, value-added services and work products that meet and/or exceed internal client expectations.
• Identifies and promotes opportunities for tax planning and other special services, serves as a trusted business advisor on internal client matters, and works effectively with varying internal client personalities and working styles.
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of complex tax concepts, creatively applies tax knowledge to internal client situations, and discusses complex tax issues with the project team and internal client management.
• Keeps abreast of current and emerging technical developments and explains their impact to our internal clients.
• Provides creative solutions to problems, accurately scopes out major projects and develops practical plans for their completion.
• Arrives at appropriate project conclusions and recommendations, and consistently makes quality decisions in the more complex or judgmental areas after consulting with others, when appropriate.
• Manages own and others' time on significant or multiple tax projects, develops and implements effective strategies to maximize benefits, identifies and documents scope changes, and communicates these early on to the internal client.
• Ensures appropriate documentation of work papers and advice and effectively structures, writes, and/or edits tax project proposals, tax opinion memoranda and other written materials.
• May serve as final reviewer of all tax returns, reviewer of "not significant" written advice, reviewer of "significant" oral advice under certain circumstances, and as a reviewer of tax general ledger account balances and activity.
• Organizes, prepares, and clearly presents information to others and responds to their questions in one-on-one and group situations.
• Identifies new tax planning opportunities for Tax Department services by effectively positioning self in the company, establishing strong internal referral networks, ascertaining the effectiveness of implemented services with existing internal clients, developing strong relations with internal executive-level client personnel and other contacts outside the company, and leveraging those relationships to obtain additional opportunities to plan for and save taxes.
• Establishes appropriate project goals and objectives for project team members, provides clear expectations, constructive feedback, and guidance to others: skillfully resolves delicate personnel issues; assists others in designing and implementing individual development plans; provides timely, reviews.
• Participates in and contributes toward the attainment of group goals, communicates effectively with appropriate internal client service team members, establishes and maintains Tax Director, VP of Taxes and General Accounting management group confidence, resolves team conflicts, and develops and maintains effective relationships with other Tax Department members and individuals in other departments.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 8 or more years experience including significant experience with large corporate multi-state income tax filings
• An undergraduate degree in accounting, an advanced masters of tax and/or CPA preferred
• Prior leadership of a group of tax professions
• Proficient federal and state tax and local government tax researcher
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Understanding of accounting principles and tax laws
• Experience with the accounting for income taxes (FAS 109) and for uncertain tax positions (FIN 48)
• Demonstrates integrity, maturity, dependability, tact, a positive attitude and enthusiasm, sound business judgment, leadership ability, and administrative skill in the performance of responsibilities

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Familiarity with one or more software and Internet based systems for maximizing the identification of credits by state and local government jurisdiction.

POSITION PURPOSE -
Responsible for all of aspects of income tax accounting including tax provisions, FIN 48, and maintenance of internal controls.

MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES -

• 50% Coordination of worldwide quarterly and annual tax provision process including calculation of the annual effective tax rate, preparation of 10Q & 10K disclosures, and manage the financial audit by outside accounting firm.

• 15% Reconciliation of all income tax related accounts including documentation of all cumulative temporary differences

• 10% Analysis and documentation of uncertain tax positions (FIN48)

• 15% Maintain compliance with SOX 404 controls

• 10% Coaching and mentoring of subordinates

NATURE AND SCOPE -

• Reports to Director of Income Tax Accounting

• Accountable for direct supervision of the work activities of others. In addition to personnel issues -- including selection, termination, performance appraisal and professional development of subordinates.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS -

• Must be eighteen years of age or older

• Must pass the Drug Test

• Must pass the Background Check

• Must pass pre-employment tests if applicable

EDUCATION REQUIRED -
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE - 8

CERTIFICATES/LICENSES -

• CPA Required

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS -

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS -

• Experience in tax compliance and accounting

• Extensive knowledge of, and experience with FAS 109, FIN 48, financial reporting requirements for income taxes

• Strong accounting skills coupled with knowledge of, and experience with income taxes (federal, state and local, international)

• Knowledge of Tax Stream preferred

• Experience working for U.S. SEC registrant, or Big 4 accounting firm serving SEC registrant

• Knowledge / experience with Sarbanes-Oxley and controls surrounding financial accounting for income taxes

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND COMPETENCIES -

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• Solid project management skills and experience with process improvement initiatives

• Ability to manage effectively in a changing environment

• Ability to work in a collaborative environment

Our client provides premier engineering, design, construction, and maintenance services to government and private-sector clients in a wide array of industries, including the energy, environmental, infrastructure, and emergency response markets. We are currently seeking the following Senior Manager – International Tax in our Baton Rouge, LA office.

JOB DESCRIPTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES

This position is for a Senior Manager - International Tax reporting directly to the Senior Director of International Tax. The Senior Manager will work closely with colleagues within the tax function as well as the business units and the finance function in general. 

•  Contributes to internal client satisfaction by providing internal clients with timely, responsive, value-added services and work products that meet and/or meet exceed internal client expectations.
• Identifies and promotes opportunities for tax planning and other special services, serves as a trusted business advisor on internal client matters, and works effectively with varying internal client personalities and working styles.
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of complex tax concepts, creatively applies tax knowledge to internal client situations, and discusses complex tax issues with the project team and internal client management.
• Keeps abreast of current and emerging technical developments and explains their impact to our internal clients and less experienced staff.
• Provides creative solutions to problems, accurately scopes out major projects and develops practical plans for their completion.  Arrives at appropriate project conclusions and recommendations, and consistently makes quality decisions in the more complex or judgmental areas after consulting with others, when appropriate. 
• Manages own and others' time on significant or multiple tax projects, develops and implements effective strategies to maximize benefits, identifies and documents scope changes, and communicates these early on to the internal client. 
• Interacts with all members of the International Tax area and the overall department and supervises assigned staff with regard to the following:
  • Review and assist in the management of the timely filing of US international tax returns (eg. 5471's, 1118), for ensuring their accuracy and optimizing the company's tax position. 
  • Review and assist in the management of the tax provision for international subsidiaries on a quarterly and year end basis for the accurate and timely reporting of this item for financial purposes.
  • Review and assist in the management of expatriate tax returns for company personnel. 
  • Review and assist in the management of the timely filing of host country tax returns (income, VAT etc.). 
  • Review and assist in the management of business unit requests regarding contract reviews, analysis of specific deals, and other specific requests requiring tax assistance and optimization. 
  • Serve as a resource for the management and sheparding of information for the Federal Audit in responding to IDR's in the international area. This also entails appropriate US tax research to understand the issues and potential US tax exposure. 
  • Manage the process of host country tax audits so that issues are timely dealt with and appropriate responses are prepared - using outside tax advisors and appropriate company finance resources in those locations. 
  • Proactively identify areas which are potential FIN 48 exposures and suggest creative tax alternatives to deal with them.

• Assist Senior Director of International Tax in the research and preparation of tax memos, and various specific project needs requiring senior level tax expertise and experience. 
• Provide assistance to the Vice President of Tax for special projects upon request.  

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 6-10 or more years of experience in both US and international tax functions within a large complex global organization. 
• BBA Finance or Accounting; MST or JD, preferred. 
• Proficiency with tax research software
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Understanding of accounting principles and tax laws
• Demonstrates integrity, dependability, tact, a positive attitude and enthusiasm, sound business judgment, leadership ability and administrative skill in the performance of responsibilities.
  

Essential Responsibilities
• Review quarterly effective tax rate analysis prepared by assistant controllers for assigned platforms
• Review the local & US Shareholder level tax account reconciliations pursuant to FASB 109 and intercompany tax settlement amounts prepared by assistant controllers for assigned platforms
• Coordinate the completion of the FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) process with the country platform & business tax leaders, ensuring forecasting assumptions are consistent with guidelines developed by treasury tax regional teams
• Support the Senior International Tax Counsel in developing plans to implement new funding structures, restructuring existing platforms, and manage implementation of such projects
• Ensure ongoing business operations are consistent with legal and tax structuring per opinions/rulings
• Review funding needs of businesses in assigned jurisdictions and ensuring the appropriate level of funding is maintained on an entity-by-entity basis and the jurisdiction as a whole
• Coordinate with Treasury FP&A and Tax Leader – Global Operations to ensure business needs and assumptions are consistent between tax and the Treasury funding teams
• Review and approve cash flow diagrams
• Review US tax returns (forms 5471)
• Identify uncertain tax positions and maintain appropriate Fin 48 documentation for assigned platforms
• Prepare the annual Controllership Review for the Global Tax Director and corporate tax senior staff
• Work on special projects, restructuring, repatriations, cash transfers, etc.
• Work with Corp tax and IT group to optimize reporting efficiency by automating tax provision & reconciliation process
• Make recommendations on process improvement to increase efficiency and/or accuracy
• Coordinate with treasury (accounting) operations and tax compliance director to ensure that tax accounting, operations, and tax compliance are consistent
• Assist tax compliance director with data submission for US tax return preparation to ensure that all transactions transpiring during the year are properly reflected on the return for assigned platforms.

Qualifications/Requirements
• 7-9 Years of Public Accounting experience or equivalent
• CPA, JD or Masters in Tax
• Significant outbound US international tax experience
• Strong accounting skills and comfortable reviewing ledgers, financial reports, and related tax returns
• Strong communication skills
• Confident working as a member of a team
• Experience as a project manager
• Influencing skills and ability to build consensus
• Comfortable with detail

Essential Responsibilities
The Treasury Tax team is an integral part of the Treasury function and the assistant controller will be responsible for:

• Advising local controllers in the global platforms on the appropriate recognition of local tax expenses and related balance sheet accounts
• Preparing quarterly effective tax rate analysis
• Coordinating and reviewing the local & US Shareholder level tax account reconciliations pursuant to FASB 109, review related journal entries and intercompany tax settlement amounts
• Demonstrate an understanding of all technical & operational requirements of assigned treasury entities to ensure compliance with legal requirements, including the maintenance of tax rulings, opinions and Sox documentation
• Work on special projects, restructuring, repatriations, cash transfers, etc.
• Assist in the development of standardized templates for tax reporting and tax account reconciliations
• Work with Corp tax and IT group to optimize reporting efficiency by automating tax provision & reconciliation process
• Making recommendations on process improvement to increase efficiency and/or accuracy
• Coordinate with treasury (accounting) operations and tax compliance director to ensure that tax accounting, operations, and tax compliance are consistent
• Maintain FASB 109 B/S accounts
• Assist tax compliance director with data submission for US tax return preparation to ensure that all transactions transpiring during the year are properly reflected on the return
• Maintain FIN 48 identification & documentation

Qualifications/Requirements
• 4 - 7 years of Public Accounting experience or equivalent. Prior experience working in a global business a plus
• CPA or equivalent
• Strong accounting skills and ability to leverage technology to improve timeliness and efficiency of reporting processes
• Strong communication skills; confident working as a member of a team with the ability to influence and build consensus
• Detail oriented, analytical, confident individual who is excited about taking ownership of their role, yet comfortable asking questions when necessary

Overview of Position:

This is a newly created position that offers a unique opportunity for an individual to utilize their income TAX accounting and project management skills. In this newly created role, the individual will be responsible for special projects in the income TAX accounting area. This individual will also spend approximately 25% of the year providing guidance and assistance to the international TAX compliance group.

This is a hands-on role which will require the candidate to partner with other individuals in Corporate TAX, and to liaise with the Company’s Corporate Accounting and Planning groups and Business units. This position reports to and supports the Director, TAX Accounting.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage TAX provision projects, including analysis of APB 23 assertions, deferred TAX updates, FIN 48 analysis, and assisting in implementation and maintenance of after-TAX performance measures 

• Provide guidance and assistance to international TAX compliance group in the areas of Form 5471 preparation and review, earnings and profits calculations, and foreign source income/foreign TAX credit calculations

• Assist with the quarterly and annual income TAX provision, including effective TAX rate analysis, FIN 48 documentation, and preparation and review of footnote disclosures

• Assist with the design and implementation of, and ongoing maintenance related to, international planning projects

• Monitor emerging TAX issues and accounting developments and assist in modeling potential impact on Company

Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of FAS 109;

• Strong corporate income TAX experience, exposure to international TAX preferred;

• Minimum of five years related corporate TAX experience with national accounting firm and/or publicly traded company;

• BS/BA degree in Accounting, CPA certification and/or MST preferred; and

• Ability to research, analyze, interpret and apply income TAX laws and accounting principles.

Skill Set/Requirements:

• Strong foundation in US GAAP;

• Strong leadership and project management skills and ability to work well in a team environment;

• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, along with the ability to effectively communicate with all levels of personnel and external contacts;

• Ability to manage several projects simultaneously and adapt to changes in priorities in a fast-paced environment; and

• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint and MS Word.