EMEA Tax Director

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A Day in the Life

The EMEA Region includes:

Tax Director reports directly to the VP International Tax and will have direct and indirect reports at various levels at Senior manager and below, 4 team members in total.

The EMEA Tax Director will have responsibility for all local and regional tax matters as they impact all Medtronic entities across EMEA Region and will work very closely with the Director Transfer Pricing, Director planning, Director tax accounting and regional Directors for International on all issues where EMEA Tax considerations overlap or impact on these areas especially with respect to regional, Transfer Pricing and planning initiatives.

The tax director will provide leadership to the tax department, coordinating high quality tax advice and support to the business. Including the support to the team for designing, implementing, and maintaining policies and documentation.

The tax director must actively cooperate with other departments such as Shared Service Center, legal, finance and Supply chain. The tax director will provide support on a wide variety of projects and provide guidance to the team on implementation of compliance regulations and leading the tax control framework for the EMEA region.

The tax director and team is responsible for reviewing fiscal financial consolidations and deferred tax assets and liabilities and leading engagements with external advisors on tax compliance matters.

In addition, the EMEA Tax Director and their team will be the primary contact with EMEA Taxing authorities and manage adviser relationships in all locations where advisers are being used for EMEA Tax matters.

This position is needed to ensure Medtronic can continue to address significant business change in EMEA and appropriately integrate Local tax considerations with Global initiatives to mitigate and manage risk not just for EMEA but also globally.

EMEA is a significant region and growing. Most OU initiatives have EMEA involved in some way and the complexity is only getting bigger. This region contains R&D entities, Manufacturing entities, sales entities, financing entities and service entities with complex holding structures which make transactions potentially difficult and expensive. Consequently, it is expected that this EMEA Tax group will be a key contributor to other tax groups such as M&A, Global Planning and Tax Accounting.

Drive and support Technology Integration, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement are expected to enhance the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the tax department.

The team is based in the Netherlands manage all Tax matters as they pertain to the region.

Expectations EMEA Tax Director

• Work with VP International Tax to drive and execute tax strategy as it relates to EMEA region. Any such strategy should be developed in conjunction with all relevant stakeholders and take account of current and future tax legislative changes
• Ensure the VP Finance is kept updated on all EMEA Tax developments and issues
• Be the primary contact with Tax Authorities across the EMEA Region
• Drive ownership and accountability for managing all regional and local tax matters as they arise
• Further develop close working relationships with all other Tax Directors and through those relationships further improve collaboration across the total tax organisation
• Be a member of the Corporate Tax Director group and bring all relevant matters to the attention of that group
• Transfer pricing knowledge and experience
• Pilar 2 legislation knowledge and experience
• Develop all individuals under their responsibility and help provide development opportunity for those individuals in other tax areas
• Develop closer relationships with regional leadership and ensure their concerns or thoughts are being addressed
• Lead the management of Advisers appropriately and within budget set
• Lead the appropriate provision of technical support on EMEA matter to M&A, OU and Planning teams
• Lead all operational tax and tax compliance activity for EMEA region.
• Oversight of quarterly and annual tax reporting requirements, FIN48 positions and other disclosures as they relate to EMEA Region
• Influence legislative changes where possible
• Coordination lead for all Tax Audit and controversy issues across the EMEA Region
• In conjunction with VP International Tax, constantly look for ways to rationalise the EMEA Tax processes and drive down cost of delivery
• undefinedCountries responsible for (not an exhaustive list):Ireland & UKSwitzerlandFrance, Germany, ItalySpain & PortugalGermany & AustriaNordics: Sweden, Norway, Denmark & FinlandNetherlands& BelgiumCEMA: South Africa, Israel, Egypt, Saudi, Poland, Turkey, Pakistan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, RussiaStakeholders:VP EMEA FinanceEMEA Finance TeamsEMEA Shared Service CenterInternational Tax TeamTransfer Pricing TeamOU Tax leadersGlobal Tax Planning teamM&A tax teamUS IRS Audit teamLegalFinanceTreasuryTrade compliancePricingGovt AffairsQuality and Regulatory affairsSupply ChainQualifications and Experience· Minimum 15 years tax experience with preferably 5+ years’ experience in a dynamic corporate MNC tax environment.· Previous experience as a Tax Director or experience in a similar role· Graduate Degree or higher· Professional QualificationExperience managing people and significant projectsExperience setting strategy in a tax context· Experience in dealing with taxing authorities· Experience in dealing with and presenting to senior level executives· Experience in dealing with and appropriately managing Advisers· Great communication skills with the ability to build and develop relationships within the Medtronic organization· Exceptional leadership and management skillsBased in the Netherlands

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

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