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Tax Counsel

Textron 60 reviews Providence, RI

Textron - 30+ days ago

Job Description

Job Summary
The position serves as the primary tax advisor for certain business units and corporate/enterprise functions. This will involve generating and implementing tax planning ideas and structuring tax-efficient transactions.
Responsibilities
  • Minimize tax liability and effective tax rate
  • Review, analyze and provide advice with respect to business unit transactions
  • Build a deep knowledge of the businesses;
  • Work with business units to understand and develop facts that will impact tax liability and rate
  • Provide tax support for M&A transactions (review, draft, due diligence and structure)
  • Provide research and strategic support for U.S. federal, state and foreign audits
  • Optimize tax efficiency of international structure
  • Intercompany pricing;
  • Legal entity and financing structures;
  • Dividend planning
  • Review and advise on new legislation and other tax changes (U.S. and foreign)
  • Understand basics of U.S. tax accounting and compliance for support of the reporting and audit tax groups
  • Requirements
  • 8-10 years of experience, with some of this at a corporation preferred
  • JD required. LLM and/or CPA a plus
  • Knowledge of Subchapter C; M&A and international. Familiarity with some foreign tax regimes a plus
  • Familiarity with tax accounting/ASC 740; consolidated returns; employee benefit/HR issues; tax controversies
  • Ability to manage projects
  • Strong communication skills
  • Accountability
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