Associate Director, Tax Transformation

Global Tax Context

The Global Tax function at Marriott Vacations Worldwide (MVW) is undergoing a multi-year transformation driven by new leadership and a renewed vision for how tax supports the business. We are seeking team members who embrace a customer service mindset, proactively identify and address issues, and bring a commitment to establishing and following standard processes and high-quality work practices. Successful candidates are those who strive for efficiency, champion simplification, and leverage technology and data to create lasting value. We welcome individuals who are eager to collaborate with business partners, think ahead of emerging risks, and contribute to building a modern, agile, and strategically focused tax organization.

Specific Job Summary

Based at the Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporate Office in Orlando, FL and reporting to the Assistant Vice President, Global Tax Transformation, the Associate Director, Global Tax Transformation plays a pivotal role in modernizing and optimizing MVW’s Tax Department’s operations by supporting operational transformation initiatives that align with business priorities and regulatory requirements.

The Associate Director, Tax Transformation serves as a Project Manager who manages and delivers tax transformation projects successfully. The role serves as a tax technology product owner by defining functional operational requirements of individual technology products that support Global Tax operations. In addition, the role supports the adoption of GT delivered technology tools and platforms, and internal process improvements that enhance operational efficiencies, ensure compliance, support audit readiness, and enable data-driven decision making across MVW’s Global Tax functional operations.

Assigned business projects and support efforts are varied in scope and duration and encompasses one or more of the following project management elements: project definition, performance metrics and reporting, detailed planning, issues and risks, tactical operations support, development of deliverables, timeline development and management, implementation of deployment plans, training development, communications strategy, and content development.

The role interacts with senior Global Tax leaders on transformation project design and implementation matters that support making Global Tax a dynamic capability for MVW. Candidates must demonstrate technical tax expertise, the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment, and a commitment to upholding MVW’s standards of integrity and excellence.

Objectives & Key Results

• Delivers projects on time, within scope and budget, e.g., achieve 95% on-time delivery rate, maintain a budget variance within +/- 5%, and complete 100% of scope items defined in each project charter

• Strengthens risk and issue management, e.g., mitigate or resolve 90% of critical tasks before project milestone achievement, and maintain issue resolution time under three days for 95% of cases

• Drives continuous improvement in delivery practices, e.g., implement three new process improvements based on post retrospective feedback

• Measures documented reduction in time spent on key tax processes such as provision, compliance and audit support due to process automation or redesign.

• Measures a reduction in data errors, reconciliation issues, and/or manual adjustments.

Working Relationships

• Global Tax Team

• Global Technology

• Finance & Accounting

• Legal Counsel

• Internal Audit

• Treasury

• Procurement & Sourcing

• Risk Management

• Internal and External Project Managers

• External Tax Advisors

• External Vendor Representatives

Specific Expected Contributions

• Identifies and designs fit-for-purpose processes, tools, and controls required to operate in the new operating model and in support of functional business strategy of Global Tax

• Manages assigned tactical support efforts as well as overall management in support of the successful delivery of assigned Global Tax transformation projects.

• Manages the definition and documentation of business requirements, controls, and operating procedures for GT-delivered tax technology solutions that streamline reporting, compliance, and analytics.

• Ensures business requirements for assigned projects are clearly identified and documented. Partners with process owners to understand pain points and deliver tailored improvement strategies.

• Monitors achievement of project milestones and deliverables of project teams; identify, manages, and tracks project is