Director, Global Tax

**This role will start as a remote, and but continue as a hybrid or 100% in the office in Miami,FL based on the needs of the business.**

Responsible for all tax matters for ACAMS and establishing a best-in-class tax function. This is a career defining opportunity to establish an international tax function in a fast past environment.

• Assures that the corporation is in compliance with all federal, state, city, and international tax laws.
• Assumes overall responsibility for department planning and execution.
• Oversees, interprets, and analyzes federal, state and international legislative tax law changes.
• Maintains knowledge of changing regulations, identifies areas requiring change and modification and sets up required programs to upgrade and change existing conditions.
• Partner with the executive team to design and implement tax efficient strategies including repatriation strategies.
• Participates actively with other members of management and outside consultants in acquisitions, liquidations, stock offerings and debt restructurings.
• Responds to executive management tax matter inquiries.
• Interfaces with outside independent auditors from a tax perspective.
• Manages external advisors to ensure that all tax returns, elections, disclosures, and reporting methods are accurately prepared, timely filed, and well-documented.
• Negotiates tax positions and liabilities, when necessary, with tax appellate conferences and foreign tax inspectors.
• Ensures quality control of tax returns, memorandums, agreements, and position papers.
• Ensures that necessary tax history and documentation is properly organized on firm secured drives.
• Works with federal, state, and local authorities to ensure compliance with regulations.
• Prepare all tax provision disclosures for financial reporting purposes and ensure compliance with relevant US GAAP and IFRS reporting requirements.
• Position may be required to travel to and assist other domestic and international sites.

Education: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Accounting, or an equivalent combination of training and experience are necessary. M.B.A., LLM-Taxation, CPA designation or law degree are highly desirable.

Related experience: 

• Minimum 7 - 10 years tax experience with international tax experience.    

Reporting Relationship: 

• Reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer.

Job Knowledge/Skills Required:

• High Integrity - you seek open and honest communication, and you hold yourself to very high moral and ethical standards.
• Strong knowledge of ASC 740, transfer pricing, foreign direct tax matters and international transactions.
• Excellent command of tax financial reporting requirements for both US GAAP and International financial reporting standards.
• Ability to communicate technical tax issues, operate in a “hands on” environment and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional departments.
• Excellent analytical, organizational and communication skills with a commercial mindset.
• Proven ability to autonomously research, interpret and document tax requirements and implications for the company.
• Knowledge of implementing transfer pricing frameworks and methodologies.
• Strong written and oral communicator, comfortable presenting to executives, audit and risk committee or Board of Directors.
• Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills.

ACAMS is the largest international membership organization dedicated to providing opportunities for anti-financial crime (AFC) education, best practices, and peer-to-peer networking to AFC professionals globally. With over 90,000 members across 180 jurisdictions, ACAMS is committed to the mission of ending financial crime through the provision of anti-money laundering/counterterrorism-financing and sanctions knowledge-sharing, thought leadership, risk-mitigation services, ESG initiatives, and platforms for public-private dialogue. The association’s CAMS certification is the gold-standard qualification for AFC professionals, while the CGSS certification is its premier specialist qualification for sanctions professionals. ACAMS’ 60 Chapters globally further amplify the association’s mission through training and networking initiatives. Visit acams.org for more information.