Tax Principal

Description

Job Description Summary:

To research, propose and organize the development and implementation of tax policies to ensure compliance with applicable tax laws and regulations.

Essential Functions

• Work with business partners and outside tax advisors on tax issues and organize the development and implementation of company-wide tax planning initiatives.
• Provide tax support on corporate acquisitions, divestitures, and internal restructuring transactions including assistance with tax due diligence, post-acquisition integration, compliance disclosures, and effective tax rate calculations.
• Provide support to tax compliance and tax accounting teams on tax implications of transactions.
• Monitor issues/changes in tax laws/regulations and assess/model the related income tax impacts.
• Research and document complex tax technical issues and their impact to the company.
• Prepare executive level summaries and presentations.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in accounting, business, finance or related discipline. CPA/MBA preferred.

Minimum Experience

Six (6) years directly related experience in regional, international public accounting firm, or corporate tax department.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Sound technical knowledge of various taxation areas for corporations.
• Capacity to understand automation and analyze data in real-time to add tax technical value to business decisions – tech savviness.
• Ability to foster collaboration with cross functional teams and take initiative in a fast-paced environment with a flexible outlook.
• Excellent project management, problem solving, written and verbal communication, and interpersonal skills.

Job Conditions

None

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of U.S. corporate tax matters for non-U.S. operations such as foreign tax credits, Subpart F, look-thru, GILTI, BEAT, FDII, dual consolidated losses, foreign currency gain/loss, transfer pricing considerations, etc.
• Understanding of U.S. international tax attributes – Earnings & Profit, PTEP, tax basis (inside & outside), etc.
• Experience with U.S. International tax compliance, provision, and/or modeling.
• Capacity to understand automation and analyze data in real-time to add tax technical value to business decisions – tech savviness.
• Ability to foster collaboration with cross functional teams and take initiative in a fast-paced environment with a flexible outlook.
• Excellent project management, problem solving, written and verbal communication, and interpersonal skills, project management, problem solving, written and verbal communication, and interpersonal skills.

Work/Domicile Location:

• This position will be hybrid in Memphis, TN and candidates must live within a 50-mile radius. This position is hybrid, meaning that employees will be required to work at a FedEx Campus location several times per week.  

Relocation:

• This position may be eligible for relocation

Preferred Qualifications:  

Pay Transparency: This compensation range is provided as a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary range for this role across all potential locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the range is a reasonable estimate of the current starting salary for the lowest level to the current starting salary of the highest level. Actual starting pay would be determined by experience relative to the job, market level, pay at the location for this job and other job-related factors permitted by law. An employee may be eligible for additional pay, premiums, or bonus potential. The Company offers eligible employees health, vision and dental insurance, retirement, and tuition reimbursement.

Pay: $6,425.27-$12,848.38 (Nation-Wide Range)

Additional Details: 

FedEx. Where now meets next.

Our vision is to be the earth's most engaged advocates of connected commerce where open borders, new markets and fair, sustainable practices are the norm for the billions of personal supply chains being managed every day in our always on, mobile-first world. We stand for ease, access and opportunity. We lead purposeful innovation, champion entrepreneurs, advocate free trade and empower humans and their place in the era of autonomy and AI. We fight for our customers, a more sustainable planet and an ethical playing field.

FedEx inspires its more than 530,000 employees to remain focused on safety, the highest ethical and professional standards and the needs of their customers and communities. FedEx is committed to connecting people and possibilities around the world responsibly and resourcefully, with a goal to achieve carbon-neutral operations by 2040.

FedEx has been recognized on many different lists both for business success and for being a great employer:

• FORTUNE Magazine: No. 18 among “World’s Most Admired Companies” (2023)
• Newsweek Magazine: One of “America’s Most Responsible Companies” (2023)
• Forbes Magazine: One of “Americas Best Large Employers” (2023)
• Newsweek Magazine: One of "America’s Greatest Work Places for Diversity" (2023)
• FORTUNE Magazine: One of the “Blue Ribbon Companies” that appears on 4+ Fortune Annual Award Rankings (2023)
• FreightWaves: #1 Among the “Top 500 For-Hire Carriers” (2023)
• FreightWaves: Freight-Tech 25 Award, honoring innovation and disruption within the freight industry (2023)

FedEx Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetics disability, or protected Veteran status.

FedEx Corporation does not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities in regard to job application procedures, hiring, and other terms and conditions of employment. Further, FedEx Corporation is prepared to make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee to enable the applicant or employee to be considered for the desired position, to perform the essential functions of the position in question, or to enjoy equal benefits and privileges of employment as are enjoyed by other similarly situated employees without disabilities, unless the accommodation will impose an undue hardship. If a reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact recruitmentsupport@fedex.com.