Are you looking for your next career move in an international team of a multinational business ?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Tax Team based in Johnson Controls headquarters in Cork, Ireland. Tax Team based in Cork is part of EMEA Tax Team with other team members spread over various locations in EMEA and reporting to US based Global Tax organization.

What will you do

As Tax Manager, you will be based in Cork and responsible for coordination of the corporate tax and statutory compliance activities in Ireland, UK and other jurisdictions, as part of the EMEA Legal Entity Stewardship (“LES”) team. The LES team owns the legal entity life cycle from US GAAP through statutory financial statements to direct tax return, responsibility for managing the statutory financial statements preparation and audit (including tax compliance and reporting, controversy, projects and M&A activity). We work with external tax and accounting service provider who is responsible for local statutory and tax compliance preparation and filing. We partner with the business and work with the various internal and external stakeholders on tax projects and planning, acquisitions, and major international initiatives.

The Manager is the point of contact with internal business, other practice areas within the Tax Department and outside tax advisors. The position will gain wide experience in the resolution of broad and complex international and local issues.

How will you do it

Work with external statutory accounting and tax service provider to ensure accurate direct tax and statutory reporting in Ireland, UK. Review of material local statutory financial statements (including US GAAP to Local GAAP accounting adjustments) and corporate income tax returns.
Work closely with the EMEA and US teams to ensure complete and accurate tax reporting for US GAAP.
Forecast corporate income tax expense and pillar 2 impacts for Ireland, UK.
Manage tax controversy and relationship with tax authorities
Overall coordination of the statutory compliance calendar and statutory audit engagement.
Work with EMEA and US planning team as well as external auditors and advisors on special projects and planning initiatives.
Collaborate with the key business unit stakeholders to support the business in driving opportunities in tax and ensuring tax implications of business strategies are understood
Support the M&A team with tax due diligence on ad-hoc projects.

What we look for

Required

Extensive experience in international taxation
Strong knowledge of direct taxation
Hands-on experience in tax planning
Expertise in Irish and/or UK taxation system
Computer competency and expertise, familiarity with advanced excel analysis desired and Oracle Fusion and HFM/OneStream experience an advantage.
Excellent verbal and written communication in English.
Self-starter with proactive focus on value-add activity, in an environment with changing priorities and time constraints.
Ability to build successful professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Hands on mentality, team player, able to work in a flexible manner

Preferred

Master's degree or equivalent with focus on tax and/or accounting but equivalent combination of education and experience considered.
Combination of Big 4 experience combined with in-house experience
IFRS knowledge
Knowledge of US GAAP accounting principles

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