Tax Senior, Strategy & Planning

This role focuses on tax research and analysis for internal transactions, legislative impacts, and advising business leadership on tax consequences. It involves supporting acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings, as well as preparing tax accounting and financial reporting deliverables.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the team leader in reviewing and summarizing tax-related provisions in legal documents (e.g., purchase and sale agreements, contribution agreements, restructuring documents) for US Firms’ transactions in order to surface tax risks, elections, and post-close action items.
  2. Assist the team leader in advising the businesses and other internal functions, including the Office of General Counsel, Finance, and Corporate Development on the tax considerations of transaction-related matters, including structuring alternatives and execution readiness.
  3. Under the direction of the team leader, analyze and compute book-to-tax differences arising from significant transactions; document positions, assumptions, and supporting calculations to enable accurate provision and compliance treatment.
  4. Support preparation, review, and maintenance of schedules and work papers for the US Firms’ partnership federal returns, including transaction-specific analyses and required disclosures; help ensure completeness, accuracy, and audit-ready documentation.
  5. Partner with Finance and support the team leader on tax accounting and financial reporting deliverables (disclosures, planning models, and forecasts), including preparing workpapers and tie-outs.

Skills

Required

  • Tax research and analysis
  • Understanding of tax provisions in legal documents
  • Advising on tax considerations
  • Book-to-tax difference analysis
  • Partnership federal tax returns
  • Tax accounting and financial reporting
  • Federal tax legislation analysis

Nice to have

  • Process improvement
  • Automation