What will you contribute?

Finastra is currently seeking a Tax Lead to join our team. The role requires a highly technical and driven experienced tax professional to manage the US and Canadian tax compliance and income tax accounting for a complex multi-national organization. The successful candidate will likely already be operating as an experienced tax manager. This position reports to the Tax Partner, Global Tax Reporting.

Responsibilities & Deliverables:

Your deliverables will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead tax provisioning and tax compliance for the complex group of entities in the US and Canada, including acting as consolidation lead for the region. This includes management of reserves, VAs, s.163J, BEAT, FDII, all tax accounting issues and resolve queries with local tax auditors.
• Manage the timely and controlled preparation of tax returns for all Finastra's US and Canadian entities, including complex consolidated and separate US federal, state and local returns.
• Leading by example and driving the development and continuous improvements in tax policies, processes, and systems for tax reporting across the region.
• Ownership for the identification of opportunities to optimize our tax affairs, including the modelling of BEAT, FDII, s.163J, other corporate interest restrictions, tax credits, and pro-active management of tax attributes.
• Provide metric-driven confidence on the overall governance and efficiencies of the region's tax reporting and compliance, including driving improvements in ETR forecasting, modelling of impact of changes and enhanced insights and analytics to support decision making.
• Drive forward any enquiries with the IRS and the CRA, working collaboratively with other team members across the organization to bring them to an effective close.

• CPA/chartered accountant or chartered tax advisor
• Experience (8+ years) of leading US consolidated tax reporting and compliance for a global complex multi-national organization with a history of M&A, additional Canadian tax expertise preferred.
• Exceptional ASC740 technical tax accounting expertise including purchase accounting.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and to drive complex transformations involving cross-functional teams
• Strong writing, analytical, and oral presentation skills including creativity in presentation materials
• Ability to develop and drive process improvements across global taxes, including development of a global tax controls framework, monitoring metrics and operation of effective controls.
• Leads by example by striving to innovate, introducing best practices and championing control standards to allow the organization to achieve optimal standards of tax reporting.
• Advanced excel skills and an ability to understand end to end tax processes and systems.