Tax Director

Leidos is seeking a Tax Director to lead the companys tax planning function and support strategic business initiatives. This role plays a key part in shaping tax strategy across mergers and acquisitions global operations and enterprise-wide initiatives.

About the Role
In this position you will develop and implement tax strategies to minimize the companys income tax rate and cash taxes oversee certain international work-flows and support one off transactions and other Leidos initiatives.

You will work closely with all levels of employees management and outside consultants including International Business Development Procurement Program Finance Accounting and applicable business departments on various projects to drive well-informed tax-efficient outcomes.

You are also expected to live within commuting distance to Reston - VA for onsite work several days per week.

What Youll Do

• Support M&A transactions coordinating thorough buy-side and sell-side tax due diligence

• Develop transaction step decks and financial models to illustrate impact of transactions on Leidos tax rate and cash taxes

• Collaborate with legal financial teams and outside advisors to design tax efficient deal structures and one-off transactions

• Manage global transfer pricing process and foreign tax audits

• Advise Leidos business units and programs with respect to tax impact from a program and company wide perspective

• Engage with Leidos operational legal and accounting teams to identify foreign tax requirements to assist with setting up new entities/branches and implement tax processes on a going forward basis

• Assist with research of various U.S. and foreign tax technical issues and document positions

• Monitor changes in US and foreign tax legislation

• Assist with other ad-hoc tax projects / deliverables

What Were Looking For

• Bachelors degree in Accounting or Tax with a minimum of 15 years of corporate tax experience in either a public accounting firm or multinational company

• Deep expertise in U.S. corporate tax preferably with a mix of both public accounting and multinational company experience

• Experience with aligning broader company objectives with tax strategy

• Knowledge of general accounting concepts including debits credits journal entries and ability to review and understand financial data

• Excellent analytic and strategic thinking skills

• Experience with US tax concepts and corporate tax compliance

• Ability to perform both US and foreign tax technical research and document conclusions

• Excellent communication financial and economic analysis skills

• The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to work both independently and as part of a team and be comfortable influencing decision making

• Must have the flexibility that a global company requires (e.g. be available for calls with people in other time zones etc.)

• US citizenship is required and able to obtain security clearance as needed

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The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.