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Databricks is seeking a Director of International Tax to join our Finance organization. This person will lead the planning function of the tax department and identify opportunities to reduce our global tax burden and bring expert analysis to our international tax positions. The ideal candidate will be a creative self-starter who is highly organized and energized by working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This is an excellent opportunity to have a leadership role in a high-growth organization that is building its tax capabilities for scale. This position will report to the Senior Director of Tax and team with a number of cross-functional leaders, both inside and outside the Finance department.
The Director, International Tax will work with the tax team leadership to optimize the company's global tax position, with a strong focus on US international tax matters.
Key responsibilities:
- Teaming with other tax teams, FP&A, and the broader finance organization to build and own a long range tax forecast and enable the business to make more informed decisions.
- Developing and implementing comprehensive US international & global tax strategies that align with business goals, minimize liabilities, and optimize cash flow, including advising on acquisitions, new jurisdictions, and structuring global investments
- Advising on intercompany transactions, ensuring US & Int’l compliance and tax efficiency in cross-border charges, including overseeing our global transfer pricing policies & strategy
- Leading and conducting thorough tax research on complex US international tax issues, engaging in special projects such as tax planning, M&A, and corporate initiatives
- Be our subject matter expert for US International tax provision purposes in compliance with ASC740, including E&P, Subpart F, FDII, GILTI, and foreign tax credit calculations for quarterly and annual reporting
- Teaming with our Global Tax Reporting team to ensure all U.S. international compliance forms (e.g., Forms 5471, 8858, 8990, 8991, 8992, 8993, 1118) and related disclosures, are accurate and timely filed.
- Liaising with and managing external accounting firms for US international compliance matters, external audit matters, and tax examinations, minimizing proposed adjustments
- Keeping current on developments in global tax that may affect the business, analyzing legislation, participating in modeling scenarios, and communicating tax-related information effectively to stakeholders including the finance leadership team
What we look for:
- BA/BS Degree in Accounting with a focus on Taxation or or a JD/LLM in Tax
- Experience with Big 4 accounting or law firm required. Having in-house tax department experience and experience supervising and developing a team is preferred
- Minimum of 12 years in depth experience with international corporate tax planning including hands on experience developing tax forecasts and creating tax models to inform decision making.
- Significant, progressive experience advising U.S. and foreign multinationals on complex U.S. international tax matters, including outbound issues (e.g., GILTI, Subpart F, FDII, foreign tax credits, Section 367, income sourcing and characterization, entity characterization rules) and inbound issues (e.g., withholding taxes, FIRPTA, tax treaties, U.S. trade or business taxation)
- Deep understanding of U.S. international transactional tax issues, including anti-inversion rules (e.g., Sections 367 & 7874) and Subchapter C provisions (e.g., Sections 304, 368, 351, 355, 381-383)
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders (consultants, auditors, etc) whose mission is to put the Company first
- Demonstrated organizational excellence and history of timely completion of duties
- High Competency in Excel and Google Sheets; can maintain complex spreadsheets that connect to multiple output formats for financial & leadership reporting purposes
- Experience with Netsuite is a plus
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipates utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.
About Databricks
Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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As the leader in Unified Data Analytics, Databricks helps organizations make all their data ready for analytics, empower data science and data-driven decisions across the organization, and rapidly adopt machine learning to outpace the competition. By providing data teams with the ability to process massive amounts of data in the Cloud and power AI with that data, Databricks helps organizations innovate faster and tackle challenges like treating chronic disease through faster drug discovery, improving energy efficiency, and protecting financial markets.
