Director, Finance Tax Deerfield, IL

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Apply Now Overview This is where your insights influence change. As a member of the Baxter Finance team, you have the critical thinking and analytical mindset that allows you to translate data into meaningful, actionable insights that help teams learn and adapt along the way. We guide our internal partners to understand financial opportunities or realities that move Baxter forward and closer to our mission to save and sustain lives. While you often work independently with your cross-functional team, you always have the greater finance organization to lean on for support and career mentoring. • Support for Parents • Continuing Education/ Professional Development • Employee Health & Well-Being Benefits • Paid Time Off • 2 Days a Year to Volunteer Success Profile What makes a successful Finance team member at Baxter? Take a look at some of the top traits we’re looking for and see if you’re a fit. • Adaptable • Analytical • Detail-oriented • Easygoing • Results-driven • Team player Director, Finance Tax Apply Now This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride. Your role at Baxter The Director, U.S. & International Tax Operations will lead Baxter's U.S. federal and state income tax activities, including the U.S. domestic income tax provision and the U.S. tax consequences of international operations, and provide governance over international income tax compliance. The role is accountable for the quality, timeliness, and defensibility of U.S. tax positions and provision calculations. This leader will also support U.S. federal tax controversy, oversee state income and franchise tax controversy, and play a central role in modernizing the tax function through technology, automation, data improvements, and disciplined process redesign. Working primarily through an established internal team and co-sourced providers, the Director will emphasize oversight, technical leadership, people development, and clear accountability for results. What you'll be doing U.S. federal and state taxation · Provide end-to-end oversight and accountability for U.S. federal corporate income tax compliance, including return positions, extensions, estimated payments, attributes, elections, documentation, and return-to-provision considerations. · Oversee U.S. state and local income and franchise tax compliance, including filing positions, apportionment, state modifications, estimated payments, notices, and coordination with external service providers. · Own the U.S. tax analysis and compliance implications of international operations, including foreign tax credits, Subpart F, GILTI, FDII, BEAT, expense allocation, Forms 1118, 5471, 8858, 8991, 8992, 8993, and other relevant reporting requirements. · Oversee the calculation of the U.S. domestic income tax provision, including permanent and temporary differences for U.S. entities and the provision impact of international tax inclusions, including GILTI, FDII, BEAT, Subpart F, and foreign tax credits. · Contribute insight and expertise regarding U.S. income tax impacts of business transactions, restructurings, financing arrangements, repatriations, and operating changes. · Monitor legislative and regulatory developments and translate changes into practical actions, controls, forecasts, and stakeholder communications. Tax controversy and risk management · Assist with management of U.S. federal income tax controversy, including audit strategy, information document requests, technical analysis, document production, issue tracking, reserve support, and coordination with internal stakeholders and external advisors. · Oversee state income and franchise tax audits and disputes, including development of defense positions, responses to tax authorities, appeals, settlements, and implementation of lessons learned. · Maintain clear visibility to material exposures, milestones, dependencies, and decisions; escalate significant risks and recommend practical resolution strategies. · Ensure tax positions and supporting documentation are contemporaneous, consistent across filings, and maintained to an audit-ready standard. International compliance governance · Provide governance and operational oversight for international income tax compliance while preserving accountability of regional tax managers for local-country execution, data validation, technical analysis, statutory deadlines, and coordination with local stakeholders. · Oversee advisor relationships and service delivery for international compliance, including scope, quality, sequencing, issue resolution, and continuous improvement. Tax technology, data and operational excellence transformation · Lead tax technology, data governance, automation, analytics and responsible AI initiatives across U.S. and international compliance processes, from assessment and implementation through adoption and value realization. · Partner across Tax, Finance, Accounting, Legal, IT, regional teams, and external providers to improve the quality, accessibility, consistency, and governance of tax data and to strengthen integrations, controls, and reporting across ERP, tax compliance, provision, document management, analytics, and automation platforms. · Identify and eliminate manual, duplicative, or low-value work through standardization, process redesign, automation, analytics, and responsible use of emerging technologies, including generative AI. · Use process metrics and tax data to identify opportunities to improve enterprise outcomes and drive continuous improvement through standard work, root-cause problem solving, waste reduction and recurring process reviews. People leadership and collaboration · Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, including clear accountability, differentiated development plans, candid feedback, succession planning, and opportunities to prepare talent for broader responsibilities. · Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and solutions-oriented culture focused on trust, ownership, operational simplicity, and service to stakeholders. · Manage resources, capacity, advisory relationships, and spend in a disciplined manner, reducing key-person dependencies and evaluating opportunities to build, buy automate, or outsource capabilities. What you'll bring · Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field; Master's degree in Accounting or Tax preferred. · CPA certification preferred; JD or advanced tax degree is a plus. · 12+ years of progressive tax experience, including substantial experience in U.S. federal corporate income tax, U.S. international tax reporting, and leadership of complex tax processes in a multinational organization or public accounting/advisory environment. · Demonstrated expertise in U.S. federal corporate income taxation and U.S. international tax reporting, with strong working knowledge of state income and franchise taxation. · Experience managing or supporting federal income tax examinations and leading state income or franchise tax controversy matters. · Experience overseeing international compliance through regional teams and external advisors, with an emphasis on governance and risk management. · Working knowledge of and experience evaluating and implementing tax technology, automation, analyt