Senior Director of Multinational Tax

Senior Director of Multinational Tax

The Senior Director of Multinational Tax reports to the VP Tax.

The Senior Director of Multinational Tax Job Grade

The The Senior Director of Multinational Tax is a grade 11.

Senior Director of Multinational Tax Responsibilities

• Provides strategic leadership with respect to GitLab’s international structure, including the location of the economic ownership of GitLab IP.
• Plans for, models, and operationalizes GitLab’s footprint in international locations.
• Influences key executives in Legal (Corporate, People, and IP), Sales, Marketing, Finance, People and Engineering for the purpose of optimizing our effective tax rate and minimizing local country tax risk.
• Communicates complex tax objectives in language which is easy for non-tax team members to understand and to buy-in.
• Sets key objectives within the Tax Department and enables the team to achieve results through removing blockers and allocating resources.
• Holds the lead role in new entity setup, working with our legal, finance, and people teams. Serves as the subject matter expert on all tax matters related to entity strategy and setup.
• Identifies and resolves barriers to GitLab’s international expansion. Works with Treasury, Finance, Payroll, Procurement, Corporate Legal, and Benefits in reducing the amount of time from BOD approval to the first operational date for a new entity.
• Keeps the International Tax Department on budget and minimizes wasteful advisor spending. Seeks multiple bidders for larger engagements.
• Sets the parameters and procedures for creating and maintaining complex interactions between taxes within the same jurisdiction, as well as taxes between jurisdictions.
• Initiates thought leadership as well as on-the-ground expertise in maintaining models which provide useful insight for making management decisions, what-if modeling, and inquiries from executives regarding the tax effects of new initiatives.
• Identifies automation opportunities to reduce the time cycles required for all compliances, as well as to reduce processing time in building tax scenarios
• Anticipates the demands of the international tax team as GitLab crosses revenue thresholds which are the basis for complex, multi-jurisdiction reporting (CBC, BEAT, Pillar 2 to name a few)
• Engages and project-manages our tax preparers for international income tax compliance, both locally and from a U.S. perspective
• Project-Manages tax and transfer pricing audits
• VAT/GST compliance and audits
• Optimizes per-country stock based compensation from a corporate income tax perspective
• Builds and leads the Multinational tax team in alignment with GitLab leadership values and principles.

Senior Director of Multinational Tax Requirements

• The candidate will have a minimum of 10 years in Big-4 accounting firm, law firm, or comparable US-based multinational company experience. Specifically, the candidate will have demonstrable, progressive experience in:
• The ability to reduce complex technical issues into communications (both oral and written) intended for lay people Currentness of knowledge of existing and pending legislation and regulations
• Transfer pricing and functional analysis
• Pillar 2 reporting
• CBC reporting
• Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
• Permanent establishment issues
• New entity setup and maintenance
• US international tax compliance supervision
• Local international tax compliance supervision
• International funding, contributions and distributions
• Identification of issues and project management (knowledge of GitLab merge requests is a plus)
• Initiating and settling intercompany transactions
• Maintaining capital preservation, minimizing any excess cash held by international subsidiaries
• Supervising managers and creating leaders
• The Senior Director of International Tax will be a JD or CPA and will have a BS/BA in Accounting or Finance with an MST, MBT, or LLM in taxation.

 

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