Mobility Tax Senior Manager at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

What You'll Do

• The NAMR Mobility Tax Senior Manager will work as part of a team of tax professionals dedicated to regional and global mobility tax activities and part of a wider 30+ person tax team. The Mobility Tax Senior Manager will report to the Mobility Tax Senior Director leading BCG's tax strategies, operations and projects in respect of cross border mobility matters. This person must be an effective leader who is able to work independently in a fast-paced environment to manage many conflicting priorities. They will be required to coordinate and business partner with other Mobility, HR and Finance stakeholders to ensure that cross border compliance is appropriately handled to meet global tax compliance obligations.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Global Mobility Tax Senior Manager will support all facets of the NAMR (US, Canada and Mexico) and LAB (UK, Belgium and Netherlands) Tax region in respect of Mobility Tax matters, including but not limited to:

General

• Work closely with Mobility Tax Senior Director and Head of Global Tax to develop the Mobility Tax team strategies relating to NAMR region and LAB to support a growing number of mobile workers across the organization and handle day to day compliance matters within the Mobility Tax team
• Build and maintain key stakeholder relationships with Heads of Finance in respect of all Mobility Tax matters.
• Provide critical evaluation feedback and help support further functionality changes with Mobility Tax Compliance technology to track and manage global business traveller compliance.
• Manage successful delivery of key projects in respect of payroll change workstreams relating to mobile workforce. Handle tax authority risk matters and audits in respect of mobility and employment taxes and PE issues.
• Provide personal tax assessments and manage tax risk appropriately for Managing Directors and Partners focussing on advice relating to transferring and business travelling staff.
• Play leading role in collaboration with PSG key stakeholders on facilitating the MDP global tax compliance program in alignment with BCG’s MDP tax compliance policy as well as continuing to ensure MDPs receive exceptional service support from external vendors.
• Oversee day to day relationship with BCG’s external global expatriate tax vendor who provide tax compliance and advisory support to staff
• Keep track of budget requirements and spend for all Mobility Tax work with external vendors and ensure competitive offering in place. Continue to ensure BCG receives high level of service in accordance with contract SLAs.
• Oversee local office processes in respect of risk management and controls to ensure right amount of tax is being paid at the time relating to BCG’s Mobility Programs.
• Support and collaborate with key stakeholders across Finance and HR to handle policy matters relating to Global Mobility Tax.
• Work closely with Tax Senior Director to ensure right level of operational support is in place to support our tax strategies and further develop team strategies.
• Support Mobility Tax audits where these arise and play a lead role in tax authority expatriate tax audit and risk reviews.
• Ensure team is receiving the appropriate technical and soft skill training to develop expertise. Provide line manager support to more junior staff in the team.
• Ensure the right controls are in place to handle remote work situations to support the employee value proposition around remote work patterns
• Goal setting and semi-annual reviews will be administered and supported by this role however in consultation with the Tax Senior Director.

What You'll Bring

We are interested in people who are ready to become part of a highly engaged and diverse team.
Required

• Comfortable working in a dynamic, inclusive, and diverse team with the ability to adapt your work style to different stakeholders and team members from other countries.
• Ability to build meaningful relationships with key stakeholders and make assertive decisions which incorporate well rounded input from a range of stakeholders.
• 10+ years of either consulting or industry side tax experience having already gained experience of leading a team and being responsible for managing people matters.
• Substantial experience with cross border mobility matters in multiple country tax jurisdictions with specialist knowledge of US/UK dual handling and/or tax advisory (essential).
• Understanding of accounting rules and corporate tax concepts in order to take a broader view on mobility topics.
• High degree of stakeholder management skills to manage interactions with senior colleagues in Finance and HR
• Strong communication skills, both written and orally as well as ability to listen, feedback, negotiate and conflict resolution skills.
• Interest in further developing learning in finance and outside tax.

Experience and Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in accounting, business, finance, tax or law graduate degree
• Experience across corporate tax (preference), tax treaty matters (essential), and transfer pricing (preference).
• Knowledgeable on OECD initiatives and European and US Tax Law.
• The ability to prioritize when working on multiple projects and the confidence to engage and integrate directly into our finance teams.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).