VP, Tax

Strong #2 Role with Dynamic, Entrepreneurial, Public Company

Boston, MA

Our client, a complex, highly entrepreneurial, global company, is seeking an individual interested in stepping into a highly collaborative tax function and positioning themselves for succession in the future.   This role will initially assume leadership over the department’s tax operations functions and will later expand scope to include research and planning, M&A, etc., to prepare someone to step into the head of tax role in the future. 

This opportunity offers the ideal candidate the following:

• REAL SUCCESSION OPPORTUNITY – Developing a successor isn’t just lip service here.  Step into a role where you will report to a leader determined to train you to step into the head of tax role in the near future. 

• Complex Tax Issues – Join a company whose complexity will rival the largest organizations in the country!  Stay challenged as this company continues to engage in complex transactions. 

• EXPOSURE!  - Gain valuable leadership and business exposure that will allow you to interact with the highest levels of this organization and prepare you for succession in the near future!

Ideal Candidate Traits:

• Minimum of 12-15 years of tax experience, with at least 8-10 years of corporate tax provision and operations experience, including hands-on preparation of provisions and returns, and at least 4-6 years of exposure to tax structuring and implementation of M&A activities
• Experience with global consolidated tax provisions for a public company
• Tax compliance experience

• Familiarity with international/outbound tax matters (expertise not required)
• Exposure to partnership and international tax provision and compliance

• Desire to work in a dynamic, entrepreneurial, and team-oriented environment
• Appetite for innovation and technology solutions to streamline processes and reduce risk
• Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to present to Senior Management and communicate effectively to non-tax colleagues
• Intellectually curious self-starter with an orientation toward continual process improvement and commitment to the delivery of consistently high-quality work product
• Able to adapt and change gears quickly

Contact me directly to discuss this opportunity further:

Adam Golden, Managing Director, Executive Search, 843-216-6664 Ext 121 or email adam@taxsearchinc.com