Global Head of Tax
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Global Head of Tax leading Canadian and international tax strategy for Progress Partners’ multinational SaaS and mobile product group. Owning transfer pricing, governance, compliance, and cross-border structuring.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the group’s global tax strategy across its international structure and operations
- Serve as the principal tax advisor to executive leadership on significant tax and strategic matters
- Lead sophisticated international and cross-border tax planning, including evaluation and development of tax-efficient corporate structures
- Advise on foreign affiliates, surplus planning, repatriation, cross-border distributions, tax treaties, withholding taxes, permanent establishment, residency, central management and control, and other cross-border considerations
- Own the group’s transfer pricing strategy and oversee related policies, methodologies, intercompany agreements, documentation, and implementation
- Lead tax analysis of intercompany financing, service arrangements, intellectual property arrangements, distributions, and other cross-border flows
- Establish and continuously improve the group’s tax governance framework, internal controls, documentation standards, and tax risk management processes
- Oversee direct and indirect tax compliance and reporting obligations across relevant jurisdictions
- Proactively identify tax planning opportunities, structural improvements, and material tax risks as the group expands
- Lead tax audits, disputes, controversy matters, and interactions with tax authorities
- Direct and coordinate external accounting firms, tax advisers, legal counsel, and other specialists across jurisdictions
- Work with finance, legal, accounting, and executive leadership to incorporate tax considerations into major business and financial decisions and translate complex tax matters into practical recommendations
Requirements:
- 12+ years of progressively senior experience in Canadian and international tax, including substantial experience within a Big Four or other leading accounting firm
- Senior leadership experience in international tax, typically at Senior Director level or above within a leading accounting firm, or equivalent responsibility within a complex multinational organization
- Proven ability to independently lead highly complex international tax matters and own tax strategy
- Deep expertise in Canadian international tax and applying Canadian tax principles to complex multinational structures
- Significant experience with foreign affiliates, surplus planning, tax treaties, withholding taxes, permanent establishment, residency, and other cross-border tax matters
- Strong experience with multinational structures, international tax planning, intercompany arrangements, financing, distributions, and cross-border flows
- Deep understanding of transfer pricing strategy, policies, documentation, and implementation
- Strong knowledge of tax governance, tax risk management, and international tax compliance oversight
- Significant experience advising CFOs, founders, senior executives, boards, business owners, or other senior decision-makers on material tax matters
- Experience directing and challenging external tax advisers, accounting firms, legal counsel, and other specialists
- Strong commercial judgment and ability to balance tax efficiency, technical defensibility, compliance, operational practicality, and broader business objectives
- Ability to operate with a high degree of independence, judgment, and ownership
- Excellent analytical, written, communication, and negotiation skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Law, or another relevant discipline
- CPA designation strongly preferred; another equivalent senior professional tax qualification may be considered
- Advanced Canadian tax education or professional training is strongly preferred
- Experience with complex multinational structures involving Hong Kong or other major international operating jurisdictions is preferred
- Prior in-house experience within a complex multinational group is an advantage, but not a requirement
- Experience with high-growth and highly international businesses is preferred
- Experience with technology, SaaS, software, digital businesses, or other intellectual property-driven organizations is preferred
- Strong professional English communication is assessed in the application process
Benefits:
- 100% remote: live and work wherever you’re happiest and most productive, with no relocation or travel requirement
- Flexible hours: we measure outcomes, not time spent at a desk
- Unlimited PTO
- Learning and development budget for courses, books, conferences, certifications, and other professional development resources
- Home office and wellness allowance
- Highly competitive executive-level compensation
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