Vericast is reimagining marketing solutions one business-to-human connection at a time. By influencing how over 120 million households eat, shop, buy, save and borrow, Vericast fuels commerce, drives economic growth and directly accelerates revenue potential for over 100,000 brands and businesses. While its award-winning portfolio of products, technology and solutions — including Illumis™, Household Connect™, Valassis Consumer Graph and Harland Clarke ChecksCXTM — are a piece of the Vericast story, its people are the true differentiators; trailblazers in data intelligence, marketing services, transaction solutions, campaign management and media delivery.

The Tax Counsel position manages Vericast’s tax controversies and represents tax across the business as a subject matter expert reporting directly to the SVP Tax. This is a high-profile position dealing directly with the executive team, business unit leaders and our most important customers and vendors. In addition to exceptional tax technical skills, the successful candidate must possess excellent leadership, written and oral communication and general business skills to be effective in persuading and moving the organization. At least a general knowledge of enterprise-level technology and data analytics is required to successfully defend audits, inform decisions, and implement solutions. Practice areas include sales and use tax (80%), income tax (10%) and other taxes (10%).

KEY DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

•         Tax Controversy: Own and manage portfolio of approximately 40 active audits, appeals and voluntary disclosures in process at any given time. Assign teams, provide strategic direction and support, review tax technical positions and sign off on all settlements. Budget, engage and manage internal and external resources to bring audits to resolution. 45%

•         Improve Positions & Processes: Identify tax planning and process improvement opportunities across both income and indirect tax to reduce cash tax, increase compliance and/or increase process efficiency. Understand and quantify impacts of proposed planning on the business and customers. Support tax team in determining the root cause of known defects and in developing practical countermeasures. Represent the tax function across the organization to effect change. Maintain list of known tax defects/opportunities, track resolution and report to executive management on progress. 20%

•         Tax Research: Perform ad hoc tax research across all areas of tax including U.S. federal and state income, employment, franchise, sales, seller’s use, gross receipts, and other taxes, as applicable. Draft and review internal tax technical memoranda for significant tax return positions, transactions and day-to-day tax advice provided to the business. Sign off on new product and service taxability assignments. Proactively monitor tax developments with material effects on the business, communicate implications to executive management and coordinate appropriate response(s). 15%

•         Commercial Support: Work closely with legal, sales, privacy/compliance and procurement teams to review, draft and negotiate the tax-related aspects of commercial purchase and sale contracts, partnership/co-marketing agreements and other commercial arrangements. 10%

•         Transactions: Participate in cross-functional teams related to deal due diligence and structuring, M&A agreement terms and disclosures, internal restructurings, new market entry and other significant internal change management projects. 10%

•         J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school

•         LLM in Tax preferred; License to practice (active or dormant)

•         5-7 years of tax-related experience, with a minimum of 3 years at a national law or accounting firm. Several years of in-house experience or demonstrated hands-on experience outsourcing client functions preferred.

•         Leadership: Leadership experience with direct reports and cross-functional teams. Must be able to create an atmosphere of trust, leverage diverse views, coach staff, and encourage sustainable improvement and innovation while negotiating in a professional manner through resource and other constraints.

•         Customer Focus: Can identify and address customer needs in a responsive manner. Sets realistic expectations and proactively communicates outcomes. Widely respected and known as a ‘person who can help’. Builds trust and nurtures broad informal networks and relationships.

•         Business Competency: Possesses general business knowledge including how companies work, the current macro-economic environment and understanding of the business verticals the company and its customers operate in. Must be able to proactively and rapidly identify what is important to different internal and external stakeholders, be able to synthesize how tax impacts those stakeholders and the financial and operational performance of the business. Is a life-long learner and is insatiably curious.

•         Technology & Data Analytics: Understands technology, how data flows through large organizations and basic principles of information systems design. Must have a working understanding of accounting principles and how/where critical tax-supportive data can be found and be able to design ways to slice and dice that data to support taxability decisions, quantify exposures and opportunities and inform decision making.

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? Vericast offers a generous total rewards benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401K matching and . A wide variety of additional benefits like life insurance, employee assistance and pet insurance are also available, not to mention smart and friendly coworkers!

At Vericast, we don’t just accept differences - we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our clients and our community. Vericast considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classifications protected by law. In addition, Vericast will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities by contacting us at: [email protected]. EEO is the law. To review your rights under Equal Employment Opportunity please visit: www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf.

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