Tax Senior

Deloitte Tax LLP seeks a Tax Senior in Dallas, Texas

Work You’ll Do

Help clients develop tax-aligned compensation and benefits programs that address their global and domestic needs. Work with clients to streamline their programs while reviewing tax effectiveness, risks, and costs, monitor global equity transactions for remote staff, and advise clients on payroll reporting and withholding requirements to achieve strategic objectives. Offer high-level support to clients to manage overall tax operations through reviewing cost estimates for temporary, short term, and long-term foreign assignments. Responsible for reviewing internal resources and working directly with clients to provide expatriate and foreign-national tax compliance and consulting services to multi-national clients. Review individual income tax returns, conduct US tax law research, review tax consulting projects, and assist in the administration of company tax programs. Utilize knowledge in expatriate and foreign national tax compliance, tax equalization policy implementation/consulting, and monitoring of international assignee populations of multi-national clients. Utilize experience with the individual income tax issues and tax law including foreign national and expatriate issues, foreign tax compliance and the tax equalization process.

Requirements

• Bachelor's (or higher) degree in Accounting, Business Administration, Finance or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent).
• Eighteen (18) months of experience as Tax Senior or related occupation gaining expatriate and foreign national tax compliance, equalization policy implementation, and global mobility planning experience.
• Experience must include eighteen (18) months of:
  • advising on individual income tax issues pertaining to expatriates and foreign nationals, tax compliance in jurisdictions outside of the U.S., and the tax equalization process, and applying taxation concepts to social security implications associated with international assignments;
  • preparing tax returns for individuals on assignment in the U.S., and providing assistance in applying for Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN);
  • conducting tax briefings to explain U.S. tax reporting requirements and complications to assignees;
  • determining foreign countries' tax reporting requirements in relation to U.S. tax law reporting events and applying revenue code sections by conducting research on global mobility topics, including technical or treaty interpretation and payroll issues, and applying income tax treaties to host country tax laws for expatriate and the inpatriate populations;
  • preparing assignment cost analysis, advising on home and host country tax implications, coordinating with relocation vendors and local payroll, and conducting pre-departure orientation and repatriation meetings with clients from a U.S. tax perspective;
  • utilizing tax research tools, including CCH, to provide tax compliance and consulting services to global business travelers;
  • utilizing tax software, including CCH Axcess, to compute taxes, conduct research and integrate with internal tracking tools;
  • drafting response letters to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or to state tax authorities to resolve tax notices, pending ITIN applications, and tax return issues;
  • coordinating with clients to obtain information and documentation required to complete year-end gross-up calculations; and
  • mentoring and coaching junior team members.