Senior Tax Counsel

• Location: Bridgewater/Morristown
• 50% Remote working and 10 % of travel expected
• Job type: Permanent

About the job:
The Senior Tax Counsel is responsible for providing technical tax support for significant corporate transactions, optimizing tax structures, and assisting in developing, implementing, and defending tax positions and strategies that are aligned to the company’s commercial goals. This role is critical to delivering value through forward-thinking and innovative global tax strategies, with an ability to anticipate and adapt in an evolving and dynamic international business and tax environment. The key to success in this role is a deep understanding of the business, the global tax laws applicable to the industry and the company’s unique structure. 

This position is based in Bridgewater/Morristown, NJ and reports to the Head of NA Tax Strategy.

About you

• Strong technical knowledge of international taxation, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring transactions and partnership taxation.

• An excellent foundation in federal corporate income tax analysis, particularly subchapter C (corporate organizations, liquidations, distributions, and reorganizations), subpart F, BEAT, GILTI, foreign tax credits, withholding taxes, transfer pricing, hybrid entities and instruments, and bi-lateral tax treaties.

• Ability to work collaboratively and exhibit proper, timely and professional communication with colleagues.

• Ability to independently take charge of projects, identify crucial elements and execute successfully in a timely manner.

• Exceptional business partnering, negotiation, and written and verbal communications skills - specifically the ability to communicate highly technical matters to business partners around the world.

• Ability to make sound logical informed decisions, assessing risk, eliminating exposures, and developing and documenting sophisticated positions.

• Strong collaboration skills, partnering with multiple stakeholders across the organization and external partners, including a global network of legal advisors.

Responsibilities:

• Support Senior Tax Leadership by developing and implement tax planning strategies to reduce tax expense, eliminate tax exposures, minimize audit deficiencies and maintain a competitive effective tax rate.

• Lead all tax aspects of cross-border and domestic acquisitions, dispositions, complex licensing and collaboration arrangements, repatriation, and financing, including due diligence and post-acquisition planning and restructuring.

• Develop, document, and defend technical tax positions, drafting memoranda and presenting conclusions and recommendations to Senior Management.

• Develop and implement tax strategies tailored to the unique needs and goals of the business and industry.

• Coordinate North America tax strategies with Global Tax and broader company-wide initiatives.

• Monitor and evaluate changes in tax legislation, regulations, administration, and court decisions, including industry trends.

• Manage and assist with federal, state and local, and foreign tax controversies.

• Mentor a talented team of tax professionals, guiding, training, and fostering their professional growth and development.

Professional Experience/Qualifications:

• Law Degree, LLM with strong background in Finance and Accounting preferred.

• Current Bar membership.

• 10+ years of tax function experience at law firms, accounting firms or an organization that operates in multiple countries including foreign subsidiaries.

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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!