International Tax Manager

**Career Area**:Accounting
**For more than 90 years, Caterpillar Inc. has been making sustainable progress possible and driving positive change on every continent. Customers turn to Caterpillar to help them develop infrastructure, energy and natural resource assets.

With 97,300 employees and 2020 sales and revenues of $41.7 billion, we are the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Our company principally operates through its three primary segments - Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation and also provides financing and related services through its Financial Products segment.

We are a Fortune 100 corporation with 110 production facilities of which 60 are located outside the US, and we have 165 dealers serving customers in 191 _countries _. _In 2019, we were named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), including both the World and North America indices. This marks the 20th time Caterpillar has been included in the DJSI. _

**The Business**:
Global Tax is looking for a Senior Manager for International Taxes in its EAME (Europe, Africa, Middle East, Eurasia (Russia, CIS and Central Asia) department. The position will be in Geneva or Luxembourg.

This is a senior role, reporting to the EAME Region Tax Director in Geneva.

**The Position**:
Other qualities such as reliability, being fully accountable for project outcomes, and being of good ethical standing are a given.

**Job Purpose**:
Provides expert guidance for tax reporting pertaining to the company's global operations. Lead project teams providing expert tax advice to business units for complex projects and/or initiatives. Significant contributor to complex tax planning strategies, provides guidance to tax teams and review compliance activities. Ensure financial reporting integrity including compliance with tax and trade laws, operating a strong control environment and the achievement of other financial and non-financial objectives from the enterprise perspective.

Based on key risk elements in the areas of Financial Reporting, Consulting and Operational Management, the overall business and financial reporting risk associated with this position’s job responsibilities scored in the “Moderate-Elevated” risk range (Lowest; Lower; Low; Moderate; Elevated; High; Higher; Highest) relative to other business resource manager positions in the company. Leveraging the COSO (Committee of Sponsoring Organization) framework for evaluating risk, the following factors were considered:
**Consulting**
Tax planning within operational complexity Tax governance within strategically significant operations Stability / strategic significance of legal entity operational structures Political, legislative, and IT systems complexity High degree of interface with external audience, business partners and senior management

**Financial Reporting**
Financial accounting and tax reporting materiality Legal entity transactional planning, consulting and analysis Reporting complexity, accountability and tax governanceTransactional and tax structure complexity

**Operational Management**
Technical expertise, oversight, and management of tax key control points. Operational complexity and tax issue decision support Professional work force, job skill requirements and leadership development Corporate tax compliance governance, review, and support. Audit planning, review, and negotiations

**Job Duties**:
Reporting directly to this position could be managers/supervisors/staff responsible for most or all of the following: International Tax and Business Unit Support, Country/Regional Managers, Tax Compliance Oversight, Competent Authority and Tax Controversy.

**Tax Planning and Advisor **- Provides specific guidance on tax issues involved in internal structural and transactional planning and early stage go-to market business initiatives. Identifies tax-beneficial opportunities and implements work plans to achieve these benefits. Works with outside legal counsel and consultants to create, implement and manage complex tax strategies. Provides thoughtful, practical and risk appropriate tax advice and education to managers in Corporate Accounting, Corporate Treasury, Public Affairs, Legal Services Division, business units and subsidiaries.

**Legislative Activity **- Monitors, analyzes and determines financial impact of critical proposed tax laws and regulations. Ability to react to legislation changes and identify key impacts to enterprise is necessary.

**Mergers and Acquisitions **- Consults as tax advisor to Strategic Investments on stock or asset acquisitions or proposed divestitures. Provides strategic tax advice regarding organizational and operational structures including implementation, integration, and post-acquisition/divestiture consulting.

**Tax Controversy **- Provides strategic tax advice and guidance to managers and spe