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The planning manager is primarily responsible for activities related to US domestic tax planning.

The role partners with the M&A, business development, finance, and other tax colleagues to lead all aspects of tax due diligence and structuring for new development opportunities, acquisitions, and dispositions.

Key Responsibilities :

• Responsible for tax analysis of business initiatives from a tax perspective, including the evaluation of potential tax consequences, transaction structuring alternatives, and financial modeling.

• Work closely with M&A, finance and business development teams to provide high quality tax support for M&A and business driven transactions including application of unique industry specific rules.

• Develop and implement US domestic tax planning strategies, including the development of initial tax planning ideas, research of technical tax issues, and review of implementing documents.

• Supervise pending and enacted US domestic income tax legislation.

• Collaborate with the tax accounting and tax compliance teams about tax risks and opportunities.

• Liaise with internal non-tax counterparties and external advisors.

• Review tax analysis for various transaction step plans and support U.S. tax compliance requirements related to business/tax transactions.

Skills & Qualifications :

• Minimum of 8 years of experience; Big 4 accounting firm or large corporate tax department experience preferred.

• Advanced understanding of US domestic tax rules (i.e. Sub C, partnerships.)

• Excellent planning, research, and technical writing skills, as well as general knowledge of ASC 740.

• Flexibility and agility; comfortable working with evolving priorities to achieve strategic objectives.

• Creative and analytical approach; enjoy sophisticated problem solving to optimize the balance between business, finance and tax priorities.

• Business and customer centric orientation; excellent stakeholder engagement capabilities that adopts a fulsome understanding of the business environment.

• Proven track record for high performance across multiple projects, with multiple priorities in a dynamic business environment.

Educational Preference: BS Accounting/CPA/MST or LLM strongly preferred.

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