Tax Specialist 3\4
Domestic Income Tax Specialist or Project Manager (depending on experience) with multiple federal and state income tax responsibilities. The individual will be part of the Corporate Tax Department at The Boeing Company. This role will have involvement in various aspects of federal and state taxes, with an emphasis in the following areas: taxation of employee benefits, the research and development tax credit, state tax return compliance, and other domestic tax planning initiatives. The individual is not expected to have experience in all of these areas, but instead, have a solid corporate tax background. Must be a highly motivated individual with a demonstrated understanding of federal income tax law, the ability to manage multiple projects at one time, and a willingness to learn new areas of tax. Qualified candidates will have excellent analytical, research, and communication skills. This person will need to team with senior tax management, corporate tax team members, financial/cost accountants, business unit personnel, and outside consultants. Big 4 tax experience is a plus.
Competencies
General• Adaptability
Understands changes in own and others' work and situations; may be asked to explain the logic or basis for change to less experienced employees; actively seeks information about changes affecting own and fellow employees' jobs. Treats changes and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth; focuses on the beneficial aspects of change; speaks positively about the change to fellow interorganizational employees and occasionally to external customers. Quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with changes in the work environment; readily tries new approaches appropriate for new or changed situations; does not persist with ineffective behaviors.
• Build Positive Relationships
Builds effective working relationships within the work group, with interorganizational employees, and occasionally with external customers. Probes for and provides information to clarify situations. Seeks and expands on original ideas, enhances others' ideas, and contributes own ideas about the issues at hand. Places higher priority on team and organization goals than on own goals. Seeks agreement from work group, with other employees, and occasionally with external customers to support ideas or take partnership-oriented action; uses sound rationale to explain value of actions. Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions.
• Communication
Clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Keeps the audience engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Frames the message in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Accurately interprets messages from others and responds appropriately.
• Decision Making
Recognizes a wide range of potentially difficult issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and occasionally with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Identifies the need for and collects information to better understand difficult issues, problems, and opportunities. Integrates information from a wide variety of sources; detects trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships; creates relevant options for addressing difficult problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates and/or makes recommendations for decision criteria based on issue complexity; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Includes fellow work group members, employees across the organization, and occasionally external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions.
• Managing Work
Identifies critical and less critical activities and tasks within own and other work groups; adjusts priorities when appropriate. Ensures that required equipment and/or materials are in appropriate locations so that own and others' work can be done effectively. Allocates own time to complete work; coordinates own and others' schedules to avoid conflicts. Takes advantage of available resources (individuals, processes, departments, and tools) to complete work efficiently. Uses time effectively and rarely allows irrelevant issues or distractions from interfering with work completion.
Technical• Analytical Skills
Basic - Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources at the department level.
Preferred - Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources with clients, customers and/or suppliers.
• Document Management
Basic - Complete knowledge of infrastructure architecture used to account for and correctly archive documents.
Preferred - Extensive and specialized knowledge of infrastructure architecture used to account for and correctly archive documents.
• General Financial Knowledge
Basic - Complete knowledge of financial concepts, such as, time value of money, present value, future value, internal rate of return, annuity, and amortization table development.
Preferred - Extensive and specialized knowledge of financial concepts, such as, time value of money, present value, future value, internal rate of return, annuity, and amortization table development.
• Tax Laws and Codes
Basic - Complete knowledge of tax laws and codes.
Preferred - Extensive and specialized knowledge of tax laws and codes.
Basic Qualifications For ConsiderationDo you have experience in the corporate income tax area (i.e. 1120 compliance, corporate tax consulting, research)?
Typical Education/Experience
Level 3 - Bachelor's and typically 6 or more years' related work experience, a Master's degree and typically 4 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Level 4 - Bachelor's degree and typically 10 or more years' related work experience, a Master's degree and typically 8 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Other Job related information
Qualified candidates should possess 4-6 years of public accounting and/or corporate tax experience. A bachelors degree in accounting is required. MBA, MS in Taxation, law degree and/or C.P.A. are a plus. Strong experience with Corptax or other return preparation software is a plus.
- Business Unit Corporate
- Division Finance
- Program Tax
- Job Type Non-Management
- Experience Level Career/Experienced
- US Person Status Required? Yes
Closing Date: 02/27/2012
