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Director of Corporate Tax
Adidas Group
Portland, OR, United States
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Purpose
The overall objective of Group Taxes is to create value for the global enterprise, business units, and shareholders by maximizing corporate profitability through minimizing overall tax burden while executing and directing compliance to conform with all legal frameworks in preserving the Company’s reputation and integrity.
Overall Relevance for the Organisation
• Ensure compliance with the tax laws of the US and all sub-jurisdictions in which the adidas Group has operations and assist in the minimization of the Group’s consolidated income tax liability.
• Collaborate with business units and provide advice/guidance on US tax relevant matters while also managing US tax risk/exposure.
• The tax compliance and planning for the adidas Group’s US tax group is comprised of approximately twelve active legal entities with aggregate revenues of approximately $4 billion.
Key Responsibilities
• Set up the structure of one team within the given framework
• Create environment which enables team members to perform
• Manage team members/give guidance
• Act as a business partner and drive common solutions
• Lead by example cross-functional collaboration
• Drive transparency and speed of business analysis → give recommendations and provide options to business partners on respective level
• Drive continuous improvement of entire processes/systems and ensure that they are followed
• Drive execution and implementation of business strategies
• Take actions to secure part of the corporate targets
• Recognised expert for tax functional area within the organization
• Provide broad & deep knowledge in own functional area, combining with broad knowledge of other areas
• Ensure that the consolidated federal income tax return and the 100+ state tax returns for adidas North America and its subsidiaries are timely prepared and filed, and incorporate all planning opportunities available to the Group to minimize its federal and state income tax liabilities
• Minimize US tax risk by maintaining records as required and preparing sufficient supporting documentation
• Manage US federal and state tax examinations and execute resulting changes affecting tax compliance filings and tax accounting reporting
• Address tax compliance, tax accounting, and tax reporting implications of any US acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings
• Identify federal and state tax planning opportunities, and develop and implement related strategies to optimize results
• Address tax aspects of quarterly and year-end financial statement presentation, including assisting in the determination of the group’s consolidated tax provision and effective tax rate, tax rate reconciliations, subsidiary tax provision calculations, and deferred tax analyses
• Maintain technical competency and keep abreast of developments and changes in US federal and state tax laws, assessing their implications to adidas North America and its subsidiaries
Key Relationships
• Strong working relationships with financial personnel of the Group’s US entities, as well as external advisors. Effectively liaise as necessary with US fiscal authorities. Additionally, partner and collaborate with various disciplines (such as legal, HR, operations, IT) when implementing business or tax strategies.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
• Ability to coach, guide, manage, and develop a team
• Excellent communication skills in order to negotiate with internal and/or external parties with possible divergent interests and with different business areas
• Business fluency in English (written and spoken)
• Comprehensive business understanding of processes and structure
• Strong result orientation and pro-activity
• High degree of stakeholder orientation and appropriate prioritization
• Ability to maneuver in consistently challenging environment
• Ability to execute strategy
• Excellent analytical skills in order to analyze complex issues and to improve processes and techniques
Qualifications
1. University degree in Business Administration/Finance/Accounting
2. Advanced degree in Tax or Accounting (e.g., CPA, MST, etc.) strongly preferred
3. Broad & deep knowledge in own functional area, combining with broad knowledge of other areas
4. 10+ years relevant Tax experience, including management of international tax planning and/or compliance
5. Background including “Big 4” and/or multinational required
6. Minimum of 3 years management experience required