Senior Vice President of US Tax

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As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Paid Volunteer time
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

Balfour Beatty is seeking a Senior Vice President ot US Tax to lead tax support for all of our activities in North America. The SVP of US Tax is responsible for staff development of the US tax team. This individual also acts as a director on the board of various Balfour Beatty US holding companies. Balfour Beatty operates within three distinct divisions in the US (with some activities provided on a shared service basis across the three), and the SVP of US Tax works closely with the US-based leadership of all three divisions.

The US tax team includes nine staff members based in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, and three staff members based in Dallas,TX, where the majority of Balfour Beatty's finance shared service team are.

Our US business is split into three divisions as follows:

US Buildings: Our US Buildings business generates $4 billion in annual revenue building offices, hotels, schools, airport terminals, federal buildings and other complex vertical construction projects. The business is split into six geographies based in Oregon, California, Texas, the Carolinas, Florida (including Georgia) and the Mid Atlantic.

US Civils: Our US Civils business generates $600 million annually from constructing roads and bridges in the Carolinas and Texas and rail projects nationally. We own a traction power manufacturing facility and a share of the O&M operation supporting the Denver Eagle light rail system. Much of the work in our civils business is self-performed via weekly paid craft labor.

US Investments: Our US Investments business is one of the largest owners and operators of family housing on US military bases nationally. With over 40,000 family houses on more than 50 US military bases across the country, we have a large and dispersed workforce managing these properties. We also develop, invest in and maintain student housing in the US and have a multi-family housing development and renovation business.

• Deliver tax support to our US businesses, ensuring we comply with our legal obligations related to tax, while generating and implementing opportunities to maximize tax credits and reliefs and minimize tax expense within the tax strategy set by Balfour Beatty plc.
• Provide tax support to new business activities in each of our three US businesses. This includes growing our business into new geographies within the US, working with new JV partners, bidding on new project opportunities and overseeing M&A activities for our US Investments business in particular.
• Offer tax support for the disposal of JV investments and businesses within the US, working with JV partners, staff of US businesses and outside tax advisors.
• Preparation and submission of all federal and state tax returns, extensions and payments. Balfour Beatty currently files approximately 300 income tax returns in US states and cities and is the tax representative for 77 partnership returns. In addition, compliance includes extensions and quarterly tax filings.
• Preparation of current and deferred tax accounting for inclusion in both the Balfour Beatty worldwide consolidated accounts (IFRS) and consolidated and stand-alone accounts for various US entities (US GAAP and IFRS).
• Preparation and submission of all indirect tax returns including sales and use tax, property tax, franchise tax returns and business license returns.
• Management of all tax audits in the US and Canada.
• Conducts tax risk assurance reviews for indirect and payroll tax purposes.
• Management of the US tax risk register.
• Oversees the management of Canadian tax compliance activities (undertaken by external advisers) covering our legacy Canadian entities.
• Provision of tax support to US HR teams to ensure compliance with tax reporting and withholding obligations related to staff payments and benefits.
• Maintenance of US and Canadian legal entities' organizational chart.

Promote Customer Relations

• Builds effective relationships with project teams, functional departments, customers, vendors and user groups that reflect and support company core values while meeting or exceeding the customers' expectations.
• Actively participates in industry, client, and community relations to enhance company image.

Our Values

• Create value for our customers and drive continuous improvement.
• Demonstrate expert-level understanding of and execution in your role.
• Deliver on your promises and do the right thing.
• Make safety personal.
• Act responsibly to protect and enhance our planet and society.

Our Behaviors

• Value everyone.
• Talk positively.
• Collaborate relentlessly.
• Encourage constantly.
• Make a difference.

Embrace key Balfour Beatty initiatives like Zero Harm, Sustainability and our People-First Culture, and do your part to demonstrate relentless behaviors and embed them into our culture.

This job description does not list all the responsibilities of the job. Incumbents may be asked to perform other functions. Incumbents will be evaluated in part based upon their performance of the responsibilities listed in this description.

The majority of work is completed in an office setting with intermittent sitting, standing and walking. Periodic travel required.

• Experience leading the tax function of a large, diverse organization; dealing with recruitment, staff development and performance issues.
• Knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP tax accounting and US tax (federal and state).
• Experience delivering tax support to business projects, often involving senior leaders as well as finance and legal colleagues.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization with line management in another country (UK) but key internal customers and colleagues in the US.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex tax issues to non-tax colleagues.
• Ability to be flexible and creative in providing solutions to problems while being firm and clear when there are lines that can't be crossed.
• Relevant academic and professional qualifications (at least 10 years of experience including senior in-house tax experience).
• Willingness to travel (mainly within the US). Balfour Beatty's US business is spread nationwide, and the SVP tax is required to travel to meet with colleagues in a variety of locations.

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm, we are challenging the construction industry's assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation's largest building contractors by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.