Senior Manager, Global Tax Planning

About GlobalFoundries: GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the world’s most inspired technology companies. With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets. For more information, visit www.gf.com. Summary of Role: The experienced Global International Tax Manager will be a strategic leader responsible for managing global tax planning process for all international operations, while establishing and maintaining strong internal controls. The role will be directly involved with leading the company’s international tax planning, all non-US tax structuring, mergers, acquisitions, local country tax minimization strategies, and divestitures for tax. Essential Responsibilities: • Provide technical leadership and lead federal, state, local, and international research and tax planning strategies. • Monitor federal, state, international and OECD legislative and statutory tax changes and evaluate the potential impact to the Company. • Support tax mergers and acquisitions, divestiture, creating standard processes to streamline process • Assist with local country tax minimization strategies, structures, and entity rationalization. • Risk identification and mitigation, working with global tax team to come up with strategic countermeasures. • Partner with transfer pricing, income tax accounting and reporting team to provide sound reporting for financial statement, including uncertain tax positions, global income tax account roll forward and reconciliation. • Lead interface with business partners with respect to the tax planning. • Interface with business segments on federal, state & local and international income tax related issues when needed. • Monitor, analyze, and advocate on tax legislative and regulatory developments • Manage and coordinate with outside tax advisors to drive tax planning, structuring, and compliance agenda. • Manage relationships with outside tax advisors (accounting and tax counsel) and other professionals related to tax matters. Other Responsibilities: • Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs. Required Qualifications: • An undergraduate degree is required, and a master’s degree is preferred. • Certified Public Accounting (CPA) or JD • Minimum of 7 years of relevant international tax operations experience. • Ideal background will be experience in public accounting or a blend of experience in public accounting and a publicly traded global corporation. • Experience in US Taxation of International operations • Experience or working knowledge of global tax accounting and reporting or compliance • Strong technical acumen. • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; high attention to detail. Preferred Qualifications: • Collaborative nature: Builds positive, healthy, and effective relationships with team members. • Anticipatory leadership: Is planful, can “look around the corner.” • Communication skills: Possesses excellent verbal, written, and listening skills as well as ability to effectively use knowledge to collaborate, guide, and interact professionally with a wide range of colleagues at various levels within the organization to drive sound business decisions. • Business savvy: Strong business acumen; has a continuous improvement orientation and mindset. • Tenacity: Tenacious in driving to continually seek solutions to improve processes that drive better performance. • Strong work ethic: A roll-up-the-sleeves, get-it-done mentality; self-starter; exudes a sense of urgency, bias for action; energized by new challenges. • Highly principled: Professional of unquestionable integrity, credibility, and character who has demonstrated high moral and ethical behavior. Expected Salary Range $105,000.00 - $189,000.00 The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at usaccommodations@gf.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Requests for accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address. An offer with GlobalFoundries is conditioned upon the successful completion of pre-employment conditions, as applicable, and subject to applicable laws and regulations. GlobalFoundries is fully committed to equal opportunity in the workplace and believes that cultural diversity within the company enhances its business potential. GlobalFoundries goal of excellence in business necessitates the attraction and retention of highly qualified people. Artificial barriers and stereotypic biases detract from this objective and may be illegally discriminatory. All policies and processes which pertain to employees including recruitment, selection, training, utilization, promotion, compensation, benefits, extracurricular programs, and termination are created and implemented without regard to age, ethnicity, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic or category specified by local, state or federal law