Senior Manager, Tax

Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Responsibilities: <ul><li>The overall responsibility for taxes of each individual investment generally stays with the Management and its local tax advisors.</li><li>Thus, you will act as an in-house advisor helping the various investment to manage their tax affairs.</li><li>In the beginning you can focus on a few major investments and develop and extend the scope over time</li><li>Responsibilities span the whole lifetime of the investment.</li><li>It starts with the acquisition and ends with the exit readiness of the investment. Thus, you can especially</li><li>Help to set up the tax function of new investments or improve the tax function of existing investments;&nbsp;</li><li>Implement your ideas to improve compliance or tax efficiency during the entire holding period;&nbsp;</li><li>Prepare the exit from a tax perspective.</li></ul> Specific tasks will include:&nbsp; <ul><li>Engage with the our client Deal Tax Team during the acquisition process to align on deal structure, tax risks, SPA, and other pre-closing topics&nbsp;</li><li>Align with the Portfolio Company management team on relevant Company and our client group related tax topics after completion</li><li>Support the Portfolio Company management team on engaging a local tax advisor or onboard an own tax function if necessary</li><li>Ensure that tax obligations are clearly defined, and responsibilities are allocated accordingly at the Portfolio Company</li><li>Guide the Portfolio Companies on how to ensure compliance with tax obligations (Tax returns and filings, transfer pricing, sales tax, WHT exemption certificates, CbC reporting) and address any non-compliance issues and advise portfolio management accordingly on remediation measures&nbsp;</li><li>Supporting the operational implementation of Pillar II across our client Portfolio Companies together with the our client tax team</li><li>Help on the optimisation of Portfolio Company tax processes and procedures</li><li>Evaluate the current Portfolio Company tax structure and recommend any changes or planning ideas that will optimize the structure</li><li>Assist in international tax planning initiatives across Portfolio Companies&nbsp;</li><li>Perform tax-risk assessment 12-months prior to anticipated exit&nbsp;</li><li>On occasion, assist with our client Group compliance Tax in the US</li><li>On occasion, assist with M&amp;A tax and deal structuring in regard to the US</li><li>Act as contact person for Portfolio Company management if they need further support or advice on tax related topics&nbsp;</li></ul>&nbsp;Requirements: <ul><li>A minimum of a bachelor’s degree, preferably with a major in Accounting/Finance, or any related business is required</li><li>Advanced degree or professional certifications such as MBA, Master’s in Taxation, or CPA preferred</li><li>At least 8 years relevant tax experience; ideally within the tax department of an international enterprise or in a Tax Consulting firm</li><li>Experience of a broad range of US international tax rules and provisions, including Subpart F, GILTI, FTC, PFICs, WHT, FDII, LoB, FIRPTA, PTI and BEAT</li><li>In-depth knowledge of international corporate tax law and good knowledge in at least one other tax areas (transfer pricing, sales tax CbCR, Pillar 2,….)</li><li>Analytical / strategical thinking, result-oriented personality, highly developed sense of responsibility and strong teamwork</li><li>Practical, hands-on mentality</li><li>Fluent in English, further language skills welcome.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Lead your team’s engineering efforts and demonstrate ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver. Lead design and development efforts of existing and new payment experiences using a wide variety of technologies. Play a key role in the broader architectural decision-making processes. Act as a strong advocate for clean and scalable principles and practices in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation etc. Participate in formal and informal code and design reviews to hold quality high. Be a champion of high-performing, secure, and reliable software services. Identify critical non-functional requirements for the work your team is prioritizing (Availability, Security, Performance, Scalability, etc.) Provide technical leadership to your team across all phases of the software development lifecycle. Collaborate and communicate effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders (Architecture, Developer Experience, Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.) Work with your Agile team to achieve shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration. Continuously learn by staying on top of the latest technology trends and share your knowledge and experience with your peers, adjacent teams, and across the organization. Collaborate frequently with other developers and teams to design and implement the cutting-edge reliable solutions. Understand and apply our technical architecture to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure deployments. Enhance and maintain existing product capabilities as required. Actively contribute to the test suites to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration. Guide continuous improvements to our build, deploy, and go to market processes. Bring fresh ideas for how to continuously improve our software, and your team. Advocate for ways to avoid and remediate technical debt on an ongoing basis. Actively participate in program planning, influencing the product and technology roadmap, and driving outcomes.  Requirements: You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field of study. You have 8+ years of professional experience in the software industry. You are proficient and have strong skills in Java, object oriented, and functional programming, and are familiar with all related and latest topics and technologies. You care about writing high-quality code, and you've written your fair share of automated tests to back up your code. You're passionate about high-scale, high-throughput, low-latency systems, and about creating compelling experiences and integrations.  You're a problem solver, and you enjoy working both independently and collaboratively to identify the root cause of any issue and solve it with a can-do mindset.  You have experience mentoring less seasoned team members. You are open to and enjoy collaborating with teammates in non-technical roles as well.  Experience in developing software for distributed systems with high performance, scalability, and availability. Familiar and comfortable with the technologies, the tradeoffs, and the design patterns emerging in application development. Experience in developing high performance, scalable and available web services using J2EE and frameworks such as RestEasy, Spring, Apache CXF and Jersey.. Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON and SOAP/WSDL. Experience in payments processing or e-commerce domains. Experience working in a global-scale SaaS environment. Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You have a bias towards action and results. 

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