Senior Director, Tax
Job Location:
Denver, CO - USA
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Job Summary
About the Position:
As a Senior Director - Tax with Cologix you will partner with executive leadership to define and optimize the Companys global tax strategy and provide thought leadership and expertise in support of a variety of growth strategies including the acquisition and/or construction of new data centers. You will lead the continued development and scalability of the tax function to support rapid organizational growth.
Operationally you will lead a team of internal and external resources to ensure the timely accurate and complete tax filings of all US and Canadian federal state provincial returns supporting workpapers and journal entries as well as any correspondence and/or audits with these jurisdictions. You will be responsible for the preparation of the global income tax provision calculations journal entries footnote disclosures and any corresponding documentation. You will lead or support a variety of efforts to optimize the Companys tax position through tax planning property tax valuation challenges tax incentive pursuits and others as possible.
The ideal candidate will have solid knowledge of and experience with US and Canadian tax laws for all tax types tax accounting under US GAAP as well as strong system and communication skills.
The Senior Director Tax will lead efforts to ensure the following:
- Provide thought leadership and effective communications of all tax areas tax planning compliance incentive pursuits and other activities to optimize the Cologix tax position
- Timely accurate and complete preparation review and/or approval of all US and Canada federal state provincial tax compliance for all tax types including income sales and use property payroll
- Timely and accurate global income tax provision calculations footnote disclosures with appropriate corresponding documentation and lead conversations with financial audit team with respect to the tax provision in support of financial reporting
- Ensure compliance calendar is maintained and met and preparatory steps are completed timely and accurately including depreciation calculations provision workpapers deferred tax schedules
- Lead team in ensuring effective communications with tax jurisdictions on correspondence audits optimization efforts
- Provide thought leadership on tax implications and strategies on Company strategic growth initiatives including business combinations asset or stock acquisitions large construction projects joint ventures executive compensation impacts etc.
- Continue the pursuit of policy process and software options to develop and scale the tax function in support of ongoing growth
Essential:
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Accounting from an accredited university with a Master of Taxation Preferred
- Certified Public Accountant
- 10 or more years of US corporate income tax compliance / tax return experience US partnership reporting Canadian corporate income tax and/or partnership reporting experience
- 10 or more years of income tax provision preparation including journal entries and footnotes
- Demonstrated experience and knowledge of all tax types including income sales and use Canadian VAT property and payroll taxes
- Demonstrated experience with transfer pricing concepts transactions documentation
- Effective at leading people / teams to ensure objectives are met including members of the tax team other internal organizations such as accounting as well as a variety of external advisors
- Excellent communication skills to interact effectively with various internal departments and functions including executive team legal accounting HR sales construction and operations
- Proven ability to effectively manage correspondence and/or audits with a variety of tax jurisdictions
- Strong understanding and effective management of software platforms for tax provision and compliance support CCH / Wolters Kluwer preferred
- Strong supplementary system skills including ERP management Netsuite experience preferred and Excel
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills; must be able to recognize problems think critically and be proactive in finding solutions
- Highly organized with a strong drive and passion to meet objectives and ensure personal success and success of the company
Desirable:
- Telecom data center and/or real estate industry familiarity
***Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or transfer sponsorship of an employment visa at this time including CPT/OPT.***
Required Experience:
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About Company
Cologix is building the data centers of tomorrow by integrating hyperscale edge capacity with robust interconnection. See our data center solutions here.
