Microsoft is evolving its products and services.  These changes require Microsoft to continuously assess how to structure its go-to-market strategy and operating structures, especially outside the US, to bring Microsoft’s products and services to its customers worldwide.  During the past few years, Microsoft has added local billing and distribution capabilities to a number of its international subsidiaries.  At the same time, there have been changes in tax regulations worldwide based on various OECD action items as well as within the US with the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act with deep impact on tax reporting and compliance obligations for Microsoft and its international subsidiaries. 

These developments and changes require Microsoft to take a fresh look at its existing arrangements for local tax reporting and compliance across all of its international subsidiaries.  The International Tax Compliance team is part of the International Tax group within Microsoft’s WW Tax & Trade team and was setup recently with responsibility to design and manage a consistent tax compliance framework for Microsoft’s international subsidiaries in partnership with other teams in Microsoft Finance.  This newly created position of Group Manager, International Tax Compliance reports into Sr Director, International Tax Compliance. 

Responsibilities

The International Tax Compliance team will provide guidance to and partner with teams across Microsoft Finance that focus on local tax compliance for Microsoft’s international subsidiaries, including FinOps, One Finance, Ops Finance, DAVA and GSC Finance. This team will help ensure that Microsoft’s international subsidiaries are complying with applicable local tax laws, and that local tax compliance outcomes support Microsoft’s group tax compliance requirements.

The International Tax Compliance team will engage with stakeholders from various Microsoft Finance teams and will help inventory how Microsoft’s currently manages and executes on our international tax compliance responsibilities.  The team will help document how Microsoft’s international subsidiaries currently coordinate local tax compliance among various Microsoft Finance teams.  The team will work with all concerned stakeholders to develop, implement, manage and sustain a consistent global international tax compliance framework for the future. 

The International Tax Compliance team will also be responsible for working with Microsoft’s Stat & Tax Controller community and the regional tax teams, as well as global tax advisors to monitor and track changes to tax compliance requirements for Microsoft’s international subsidiaries, including feedback loops to highlight weaknesses that may lead to non-compliance.  The team will actively partner with the Tax & Trade Process & Technology group, as well as product engineering and financial systems teams across Microsoft to ensure that systems, tools and processes that support globally consistent local tax compliance requirements are prioritized for deployment and updated as required from time to time in response to changes in tax laws or weaknesses in controls that may lead to non-compliance. 

This new position will work closely with other members of the International Tax Team and other teams within WW Tax & Trade team and across Microsoft Finance to help the teams execute on the above responsibilities.

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance and a qualified CPA (or equivalent) with 12 years or more of relevant experience
• Strong understanding of direct and withholding tax compliance systems, tax returns, tax accounting and experience with tax audits for international jurisdictions
• Knowledge of US tax reporting requirements for international group entities would be preferred.
• Familiarity with Microsoft’s billing systems and/or reporting tools that support direct and/or indirect tax compliance and tax reporting for Microsoft’s international subsidiaries
• Experience in designing processes around tax reporting and compliance and helping drive change management/adoption for those processes
• Demonstrated strong partnering capabilities, be collaborative and inclusive while working with stakeholders across Finance and other organizations within Microsoft
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and be thorough and detailed oriented, while summarizing analysis to drive broader business context and insight
• Comfortable handling ambiguity and uncertainty in a dynamic tax environment that is evolving globally at a fast pace

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