“I AM EXCITED ABOUT ALL OF THE NEW INITIATIVES GAINING TRACTION AND RESULTING IN MEANINGFUL GROWTH FOR TRANSUNION” – TODD CELLO

Overview of role:

This role offers the opportunity to broaden your skillset in tax provisioning, international tax compliance, transfer pricing, and international tax consulting work streams for a billion dollar (and growing) multinational company. Transunion is a leading Chicago headquartered public multinational corporation company with operations in 34 (international) jurisdictions, spanning many emerging markets. This role includes collaboration with senior management inside and outside of the tax department and is a great opportunity for an analytically-minded tax professional to contribute strongly to the development of strategic initiatives within the international space.

Team Focus:

 The Corporate Tax department provides executive management and shareholders with the comfort that TransUnion’s corporate taxes are minimized by timely analyzing current legislation and maintaining up to date multinational government tax accounting and compliance responsibilities.   Working directly with executives and their financial teams, the team is responsible for reporting the accounting for income taxes under ASC 740, preparing and filing TransUnion’s annual consolidated Form 1120 income tax return and executing on strategic tax planning initiatives. Associates in this fast-paced work environment do not just prepare and file tax returns; they understand the company’s positions and work hard to improve processes that better the overall reporting to key stakeholders.  Recently, the team successfully implemented OneSource Income Tax Return Software that compliments their OneSource Tax Provision Software to ensure best practice efficiencies in using tax reporting software. 

Additionally, the Tax team administers advice and coordination on international taxes in 34 countries; and conducts all tax research and planning for TransUnion’s global operations. Day in, day out, the Corporate Tax department makes highly valued and visible contributions to the business and influences senior management and the larger finance group in making tax decisions. 

What we’ll bring:

• A welcoming and energetic environment that encourages collaboration and innovation. We consistently explore new technologies and tools to be agile.
• Flexible time off, workplace flexibility, an environment that welcomes continued professional growth through support of tuition reimbursement, conferences and seminars.
• Our culture encourages our people to hone current skills and build new capabilities, while discovering their genius.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting (required)
• CPA (required)
• An ideal candidate will have worked 2 to 5 years in either public accounting, industry, or both. Multinational public company clients and or on the job experience at a similar multinational company similar to TransUnion is a must. 
• A candidate must be comfortable with tax technology, the ability to navigate, and hands on use of our accounting tools including OneSource Tax Provision Software, OneSource Income Tax Return Software, PeopleSoft, CCH, and BNA. 
• A candidate must have working knowledge of debits and credits and the ability to extract relevant data from a general ledger software package via queries and other methods.
• A candidate must have the ability to create and comprehend advanced features within Excel models including pivot tables, V-look up, H-look up, If statements, Sum If formulas,  and other functionality.

Impact you’ll make: 

• Support and assist on the quarterly tax provision including the preparation or review of journal entries, working with the foreign units to send and receive local reporting packages, and recording return-to-provision journal entries.  Key international tax provision work streams include ASC 740-10-15 (FAS109) Accounting for Income Taxes, ASC 740-10-50 (FIN48) Uncertainty in Income Taxes, ASC 740-270 (FIN18) Interim Reporting, and ASC 740-30-25 Assertion (APB 23) on Unremitted Earnings.
• Support and prepare the international tax compliance disclosures that comprise the annual consolidated Form 1120 income tax return including Form 1042, 1118, 5471, 5472, 8865, and FBAR reporting.
• Over the past year the international tax team devised and implemented a highly complex international tax structure. An ideal candidate should have experience in tax research and the willingness to develop strong tax research skills to assist with cross border structuring, transfer pricing, due diligence on targeted acquisitions, and other related projects.
• Support and prepare models to forecast worldwide corporate income taxes using data inputs received from global controllers.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.