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Company Description

At Sectigo, we align around our mission and pride ourselves in helping thousands of customers sleep better at night.

Sectigo is the most innovative provider of certificate lifecycle management (CLM), delivering comprehensive solutions that securehuman and machine identities for the world's largest brands. Sectigo's automated, cloud-native CLM platform issues and manages digital certificates across all certificate authorities (CAs) to simplify and improve security protocols within the enterprise. Sectigo is one of the largest, longest-standing, and most reputable CAs with more than 700,000 customers and two decades of delivering unparalleled digital trust.

"When people think Online trust management, they think Sectigo because we offer our customers unparalleled peace of mind."

How we show up with each other and our customers every day is just as important, and we win as #OneSectigo by living out our core values - Support, Excellence, Communication, Teamwork, Integrity, Growth and Openness. We are committed to investing in our diverse teams where everyone understands their role and how they support our strategic goals, we drive operational excellence through scale and efficiency, and we strive to delight our customers and become the market leader in our industry. If you aspire to join a driven team that holds each other accountable to meeting our lofty goals and you'd like to be part of our growth story in delivering a market leading user experience, we'd like to talk to you.

Job Description

We are looking for a talented Director of Global Tax to join our growing global team at Sectigo.

The Director, Global Tax is a trusted advisor to executive management, providing guidance on tax consequences of business decisions and developing tax optimization strategies. The Director, Global Tax is responsible for completion of federal, international, and local income tax returns including all related analysis and support. This position has oversight of the tax returns for the Company's operations, including its international operations. Responsible for audits of all foreign, federal, state and local tax filings. Oversees transfer pricing and management fee arrangements. This individual acts as a liaison with operating management on tax issues and accounting staff on tax accounting issues, is responsible for tax provision and book/tax accounting and reconciliations, and ensures that appropriate internal controls are in place over accounting for income taxes. Operating as the departmental liaison with IT staff on all technical matters relating to tax applications, the Director, Global Tax assists the CEO and CFO with tax planning issues as required.

This is a full-time and remote position based in the U.S., unless the individual is based in the greater Phoenix area and will be working in a hybrid work style (3-4 days in our Scottsdale office).

Here are the core functions, responsibilities, and expectations for this role:

• Drive tax strategy and optimization positions.
• Manage the delivery of tax services by the Company's third-party tax service providers, including oversight of service delivery quality and budget management.
• Manage current team of two tax accountants
• Lead the global tax planning process, including assessing the impact of recent acquisitions and legal entity rationalization.
• Oversight of the global tax compliance process, ensuring all returns are filed timely through effective management of tax service providers.
• Assess existing global intercompany relationships to determine transfer pricing requirements and proper structure, including documentation of intercompany agreements.
• Work closely with business unit leadership, sales and operations teams to assess new product offerings and potential tax implications.
• Work with FP&A to forecast the global ETR, cash taxes and impacts of potential business activities.
• Analyze and document ASC 740-10 (FIN48)/IFRIC 23 and FAS 5 reserves.
• Research, analyze, and implement the impacts of accounting standard changes and tax law developments.
• Analyze tax accounting and reporting requirements for business combinations, debt and equity offerings and other major corporate transactions.
• Manage domestic and foreign income tax audits and inquiries by governmental authorities in addition to maintaining concurrent, audit-ready workpapers and financial records for all filings.
• Identify and mitigate company risks and communicate areas of potential exposure to management.
• Ensure compliance with Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) requirements, suggesting improvements and changes as needed.
• Support the Global Controller and CFO in the quarterly and annual review of the global tax provision and ETR, including analysis as needed.
• Additional tasks associated with this position may be assigned in response to company initiatives and business needs.

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting is required. Master's degree with a focus in tax accounting is strongly preferred.

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of combined public accounting and corporate tax department experience within a global company is required.
• CPA license is strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of ASC 740 and tax law within the US, the United Kingdom and the EU.
• Knowledge of indirect taxes including sales and use tax and VAT.

Ideal Candidate Profiles, Talents, and Desired Qualifications:

• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with all levels of management and cross functional teams.
• Willing and able to manage internal and external resources using a collaborative approach.
• Willing and able to perform tasks at all levels, from detailed preparation to high level review.
• Independent and self-driven with the ability to find solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• High proficiency with data analysis and advanced knowledge of spreadsheet and database tools.
• Enjoy the opportunity to build a global tax function from the ground up and recognize the need to dive deep and operate in the details and specifics while establishing and supporting strategic priorities.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Global team. Global reach. Global impact.

At Sectigo, we believe doing good is good business. Our strength and our success come from our team of passionate, engaged individuals who make a difference, both locally and globally. Our commitment to engagement is rooted in an unconditionally inclusive workforce, embodying our unique perspectives, heritages, and backgrounds, all as diverse as the experiences of each Sectigo employee. Importantly, we strive to be recognized not only as the CLM leader but also for our intentional efforts to promote employees into the roles that most challenge and excite them, into experiences that allow them to grow their interests as we grow the business. We are committed to bringing a little bit of fun and a whole lot of happiness into everything we do so that our work - and our team members - reflect the positive outcomes we deliver to our customers every day.

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