Tax Senior Manager - Non-U.S. Income Tax

JOB SUMMARY

The Tax Senior Manager-Non-US Income Tax, reporting to the Tax Director-Non-US Income Tax, will assist in providing the HQ oversight of the tax professionals located in the global regions who have primary responsibility to ensure compliance with the local jurisdictions income tax filing, withholding tax maintenance, and income/withholding tax audits. The focus of this position is to ensure that all non-US income and withholding taxes are properly analyzed and reported for inclusion in the overall global income tax reporting of the Company. This role will provide the gatekeeping of non-US tax information and reporting for coordination with US income tax accounting.

Scope Measures:

Number of Direct Reports: - 4

Titles of Direct Reports: - Senior Tax Manager (3 regional positions); Assistant Manager (HQ), Non-US Income Tax

The Corporate Tax department is responsible for providing global tax expertise to the entire Marriott International affiliated group of companies, including tax compliance, accounting, research, strategy, and audit management.



General Contributions

Provide input to Director to develop operating plans and workable business processes for department in alignment with function and strategy.

Contribute to larger business processes and/or projects, setting priorities and measurable objectives, monitoring and reporting on the process, progress and results . Influence work of cross-functional or extended teams.

Contribute to team, department and/or business results by performing more complex quantitative and qualitative analysis for business processes and/or projects.

Respond to, solve and make decisions on non-routine business requests with limited risk.

Work to enhance the organization's capabilities through effective staffing and development of others by:

• Using appropriate Marriott interviewing tools to hire the best managers available from inside or outside.
• Hiring for diversity and balance of skills.
• Setting and maintaining high standards for team and individual performance.
• Providing timely coaching and feedback.
• Making and rewarding distinctions in performance

Assist more senior associates in achieving business results by:

- Identifying opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of business processes.

- Providing training and technical guidance to less senior staff, where appropriate, and serving as point-of-contact for problem resolution.

- Participating in setting department operating plans.

- Recognizing and celebrating team successes.

- Achieving results against budget within scope of responsibility.

Demonstrate an awareness of personal strengths and areas for improvement and act independently to improve and increase skills and knowledge.

Identify and implement process improvements, especially technological enhancements.



Specific Contributions

Support the governance process for local (non-US) income and withholding tax compliance and local tax audits. This includes but is not limited to:

• Ensuring that all non-US entities are in compliance with all income and withholding tax requirements as required under local law.
• Providing the link between the HQ Tax Department and the Regional Business Partners to ensure that communication sharing is maintained.
• Providing oversight of the regional tax managers' reporting of tax return data to ensure results are analyzed and reported as required in Tax data collection sites.

Support the activities of the Income Tax Accounting Group. This is includes but is not limited to:

• Review transactional analyses for income tax compliance to ensure the proper tax accounting. Coordinate communications of changes amongst the groups.
• Interpret results and provide guidance on the reporting of tax positions to both the regional tax managers as well as the Tax Provision group. Ensure Director is apprised of all issues that may impact the overall effectiveness of the team's activities and ultimate reporting responsibilities.
• Manage the tax accounting and reporting process for non-US entities required for local GAAP, IFRS, and USGAAP purposes. Support the Director in coordinating the communication between the regional tax managers and US tax accounting teams to ensure all tax balances are properly analyzed and reported.
• Timely and accurately provide deliverables to the Income Tax Accounting group. Manage the timelines and completeness of the responses from the regions to HQ.
• Support the maintenance of current and deferred tax schedules, FIN 48 analyses, footnote disclosures, return to provision reconciliations, and tax pool true-ups required for US GAAP tax accounting for the non-US entities.
• Review and maintain the cash tax reporting process of non-US tax payments so that balances are accurately reflected and reported.
• Manage the governance process to ensure the non-US entities are in compliance with all tax accounting controls and documentation requirements as required for local statutory reporting and SOX.
• Ensure book to tax adjustments are properly classified between permanent and temporary, cumulative deferred tax balances are reconciled, and tax payments/refunds are properly supported for all non-US entities.

Support the processes for reporting non-US tax information to all customers, internal and external. This includes but is not limited to:

• Assist in the effort to re-engineer processes and document procedures critical to accounting for non-US income taxes.
• Provide key support functions in the development, implementation and execution of the SharePoint tax reporting application.
• Lead efforts to prepare, maintain and improve documentation to support reporting functions performed by the non-U.S. tax compliance group.
• Develop reporting and auditing solutions to ensure that withholding tax rates are updated promptly as needed in the customer billing system and that there is consistency in rate application in country.
• Manage the treaty clearance process. Ensure that residency documentation is timely received and forwarded to the affected parties to support reduced treaty rates.

Support the income and withholding tax audit reporting and analysis for all non-US entities:

• Coordinate documentation and resolution process with the Director and Senior Tax Counsel, VP, responsible for international audits.
• Ensure that all risks are analyzed properly for compliance with ASC 740 requirements and reported quarterly as required.

Manage the reporting of the Outside Professional Fee budget and accounts for reporting to Internal Audit, Marriott's Audit Committee, and the SVP, Global Tax. Maintain the budget schedule by advisor firm/country/entity, monitor regional manager reporting, and compile results for quarterly and annual review.

Supervise, train, and develop staff.

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Experience

8+ years of income tax experience including substantial experience in U.S. corporate tax matters including at least 3 years of experience working with non-US entity tax data and tax filings.

Substantial experience with financial accounting for income taxes; Strong working knowledge of ASC 740 (SFAS109, APB23, FIN18, FIN48) and SOX404

Supervisory/management experience

Experience working with accounting software and databases

Lodging/hospitality industry experience desirable.



Education or Certification

BS/BA degree in Accounting or related field of study

Masters in Tax and/or CPA a plus



Knowledge and Skills

Exceptional communication skills; creates an atmosphere in which timely information flows smoothly through the organization.

Demonstrated leadership and team building skills.

Strong commitment to tight deadlines.

Strong project management/multi-tasking skills; Able to integrate and balance priorities, work activities and resources for the benefit of multiple key stakeholders.

Strong quantitative and qualitative analysis skills; able to take large volumes of complex information and present it in a clear and concise manner to senior management and other constituents; able to use data and a cogent problem solving methodology in decision making and impact assessment .

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