Roles and Responsibilities
- Enterprise compliance leadership: Own the annual and quarterly U.S. tax compliance cycle, operating model, governance, risk assessment, calendar, milestones, resource plan, and executive reporting for a complex multinational enterprise.
- Federal income tax: Direct preparation, technical review, approval, extension, electronic filing, and documentation of the consolidated federal income tax return and related forms, elections, disclosures, statements, workpapers, and supporting calculations through a co-sourcing relationship with a Big 4 firm.
- State and local income tax: Oversee outsourcing arrangement of multistate income and franchise tax returns, combined and separate-company filings, apportionment, state modifications, estimated payments, extensions, notices, account reconciliations, and jurisdictional positions.
- U.S. international compliance: Coordinates with co-sourced accounting firm team and internal U.S. International Tax team on the preparation and review of U.S. reporting for foreign corporations, partnerships, branches, and cross-border transactions, including Forms 5471 and 8865 and related schedules, disclosures, elections, E&P, basis, tax-pool, and other supporting workpapers.
- Specialty and information reporting: Oversee outsourced U.S. property tax filings and payments and in-house prepared federal excise tax compliance, including Form 720, Forms 1099, Forms 1042 and 1042-S, associated withholding, remittance, reconciliations, corrections, extensions, and documentation.
- Tax payments and cash forecasting: Own federal, state, local, property, excise, and withholding tax payment processes, including estimated tax calculations, extensions, payment approvals, cash-tax forecasts, due-date controls, and confirmation of settlement.
- Data and workpapers: Establish clear data requirements, coordinate inputs from controllership, treasury, legal, payroll, accounts payable, business finance, and international tax teams, and ensure complete audit-ready workpapers, return-to-provision reconciliations, and documentation of material judgments.
- ONESOURCE Income Tax: Serve as business owner for OIT compliance processes, including tax-return setup, entity and jurisdiction maintenance, trial-balance mapping, calculations, data imports, e-filing, user access, release testing, issue resolution, and process standardization.
- Co-sourcing and team leadership: Lead and develop one direct report and manage the co-sourced accounting firm through defined scope, deliverables, service levels, staffing plans, budgets, review protocols, issue escalation, knowledge transfer, and performance against deadlines and quality standards.
- Controls and compliance quality: Maintain effective review, approval, access, change-management, reconciliation, and filing controls; preserve evidence of control performance; identify and remediate deficiencies; and support internal audit, external audit, and SOX requirements.
- Tax accounting support: Provide technical input and review for selected U.S. income tax accounting calculations, including current tax expense, payable and receivable balances, return-to-provision adjustments, uncertain tax positions, state tax calculations, and relevant international components; coordinate with the tax accounting team on data, assumptions, and close deadlines.
- Audits, notices, and controversy support: Coordinate and prepare responses to tax authority notices, information requests, account discrepancies, and examinations; preserve supporting documentation and ensure compliance positions are consistent across returns, provisions, and controversy matters.
- Legislative and business change: Monitor tax-law, form, and filing developments; assess impacts on processes, systems, cash taxes, and controls; and integrate acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, and legal-entity changes into the compliance framework.
- Process improvement: Lead automation, standardization, and risk-reduction initiatives; define metrics for timeliness, quality, rework, cycle time, and cost; and communicate status, exposures, decisions, and resource needs to senior tax leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or a related field from an accredited institution.
- At least 10 years of progressively responsible U.S. corporate income tax experience, including significant experience leading federal and multistate compliance for a large, complex multinational corporation or advising comparable clients in public accounting.
- Demonstrated technical knowledge of consolidated federal returns, state and local income and franchise taxes, U.S. international information reporting, tax payments, and tax accounting interfaces.
- Experience directing co-sourced or outsourced service providers and reviewing work prepared by internal and external teams.
- Hands-on experience with ONESOURCE Income Tax or a comparable enterprise tax compliance platform, including data management, return preparation, review, and e-filing.
- Demonstrated leadership, coaching, project management, stakeholder management, and continuous-improvement capabilities.
Desired Characteristics
- Master's degree in Taxation, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field; CPA preferred.
- Deep working knowledge of Forms 1120, 720, 1099, 1042, and 1042-S, together with related schedules, withholding, remittance, and information-reporting requirements.
- Experience in a publicly traded multinational corporation with complex legal-entity structures, acquisitions, dispositions, intercompany transactions, and extensive state filing requirements.
- Strong understanding of ASC 740, current tax provision calculations, return-to-provision analysis, tax balance-sheet accounts, and SOX-compliant controls.
- Proven ability to manage competing deadlines, exercise sound technical judgment, identify material risks, and deliver accurate results in a high-volume environment.
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex tax matters into clear decisions, actions, and business implications.
GE HealthCare offers a great work environment, professional development, challenging careers, and competitive compensation. GE HealthCare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE HealthCare will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
While GE HealthCare does not currently require U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, some GE HealthCare customers have vaccination mandates that may apply to certain GE HealthCare employees.
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