Consultant, Tax (US taxation)

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What We'll Bring:

Dynamics of the Role
As part of our Global Operating Model, we established our award-winning Global Capability Centers (“GCCs”) in 2018 to centralize, standardize and automate common work in locations with deep talent pools, which currently include India, South Africa and Costa Rica. Our transformation plan to optimize our operating model includes the transition of certain job responsibilities to our GCCs. In alignment with our operating model, this position presents an exciting opportunity for a Corporate U.S. International Tax Specialist to join our Global Capability Center (GCC) in India.
This role offers the opportunity to broaden your skillset in tax provisioning, international tax compliance, transfer pricing, and international tax consulting workstreams for a four-billion-dollar (and growing) multinational company. TransUnion is a leading Chicago headquartered public multinational corporation with operations in over 30 international countries and territories, 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. 


What You'll Bring:

How You’ll Contribute

• 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 workstreams 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, 8858, 8865, 8990, 8991, 8992, 8993, and FBAR reporting.
• Support and assist with the coordination and management of global income tax and transfer pricing compliance.
• An ideal candidate should have 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.
• Independently analyzes workpapers, prepares supporting documentation, applies fundamental accounting concepts and practices with a focus on transfer pricing and non-US tax matters.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting is a must.
• Certified Public Accountant is a must.
• MST or LLM is preferred.
• An ideal candidate will have worked in both public accounting and industry. Preferably 2 to 3 years in public accounting and 2 to 3 years in industry; a minimum of 4 to 6 years in total. Multinational public company clients and or on the job experience at a similar multinational company like TransUnion is a must. 
• A candidate must have the ability to interpret domestic and international tax concepts as well as a working knowledge of ASC 740, accounting for income taxes 
• A candidate must have the ability to analyze data and calculate the impact of legislative changes and tax planning opportunities as applied to the company.
• A candidate must have working knowledge of the U.S. tax legislation and accounting principles, including the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and familiarity with GILTI, BEAT, FDII and FTC computations. 
• 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 accounting 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, Index Match, and other functionality.

Who We Are

Information is a powerful thing.  As a trusted provider of global information solutions, our mission is to help people around the world access the opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life, by helping organizations optimize their risk-based decisions and enabling consumers to understand and manage their personal information. Because when people have access to more complete and multidimensional information, they can make more informed decisions and achieve great things.

Every day TransUnion offers our employees the tools and resources they need to find ways information can be used for good. Whether it is helping businesses better manage risk, providing better insights so a consumer can qualify for his first mortgage or working with law enforcement to make neighborhoods safer, we are improving the quality of life for individuals, families, communities and local economies around the world.

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

Impact You'll Make:

The Team’s 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.  The team uses OneSource Income Tax Return and OneSource Tax Provision to ensure best practice efficiencies in using tax reporting software. 

Additionally, the Tax team administers advice and coordination on international taxes in over 40 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. 

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.

TransUnion Job Title

Consultant, Tax