Associate Director, Indirect Tax

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company, operating in more than 100 countries worldwide. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high-quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain and protect our planet. The company serves a variety of end markets including chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases are used in countless applications, from life-saving oxygen for hospitals to high-purity & specialty gases for electronics manufacturing, hydrogen for clean fuels and much more. Linde also delivers state-of-the-art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

This position will report to Executive Director, US Tax Compliance and Reporting and will be located in Tonawanda, NY. This role is responsible for managing the tax technical issues related to sales, use and property tax, managing state and local audits, and supporting the US businesses and Shared Service Center responsible for indirect tax compliance.

Responsibilities

• Review contracts and business situations to identify risk and mitigate costs/risk related to indirect transactions.
• Coordinate and support indirect tax audits
• Coordinate and work with Shared Service Center to support questions relating to Lindes US indirect tax filings
• Work with the business teams to operations to identify opportunities to minimize indirect taxes
• Answer/research taxability questions on transactions for indirect matters
• Support businesses on property tax related due diligence for mergers, acquisitions & dispositions
• Lead implementations of process improvements and best practices
• Responsible for maintenance of Vertex Tax Decision Maker

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Finance / Accounting, MST degree or courses a plus
• 10-15+ years of Sales Tax experience and dealing with multistate tax issues in either a large industry or Big 4 Public Accounting
• Experience using Vertex or other sales tax software
• Prior experience managing a team preferred
• Ability to work cross functionally in a matrix organization
• Ability to drive value and minimize tax within the sales tax function
• Strong project management skills
• Strong communication skills and demonstrated experience with driving process improvement
• Property tax knowledge/experience a plus
• Experience / knowledge of non-US indirect tax a plus (i.e., VAT, GST)