Global Head of Tax

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💰 Tax

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Progress Partners

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51 - 200 employees

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

SaaS • Productivity • Artificial Intelligence

Progress Partners is a technology company that designs, builds, launches, and scales next-generation SaaS and mobile platforms. They specialize in creating self-serve, globally scalable SaaS products across areas like AI tools, productivity and workflow tools, collaboration platforms, and marketing solutions. Progress Partners operates as a fully remote, multi-skilled product team focused on results, long-term scalability, data-driven decisions, and user adoption; their platforms serve millions of users every month across 160 countries.

📋 Description

• Lead the group’s global tax strategy across its international structure and operations • Serve as the principal tax advisor to executive leadership on significant tax and strategic matters • Lead sophisticated international and cross-border tax planning, including evaluation and development of tax-efficient corporate structures • Advise on foreign affiliates, surplus planning, repatriation, cross-border distributions, tax treaties, withholding taxes, permanent establishment, residency, central management and control, and other cross-border considerations • Own the group’s transfer pricing strategy and oversee related policies, methodologies, intercompany agreements, documentation, and implementation • Lead tax analysis of intercompany financing, service arrangements, intellectual property arrangements, distributions, and other cross-border flows • Establish and continuously improve the group’s tax governance framework, internal controls, documentation standards, and tax risk management processes • Oversee direct and indirect tax compliance and reporting obligations across relevant jurisdictions • Proactively identify tax planning opportunities, structural improvements, and material tax risks as the group expands • Lead tax audits, disputes, controversy matters, and interactions with tax authorities • Direct and coordinate external accounting firms, tax advisers, legal counsel, and other specialists across jurisdictions • Work with finance, legal, accounting, and executive leadership to incorporate tax considerations into major business and financial decisions and translate complex tax matters into practical recommendations

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of progressively senior experience in Canadian and international tax, including substantial experience within a Big Four or other leading accounting firm • Senior leadership experience in international tax, typically at Senior Director level or above within a leading accounting firm, or equivalent responsibility within a complex multinational organization • Proven ability to independently lead highly complex international tax matters and own tax strategy • Deep expertise in Canadian international tax and applying Canadian tax principles to complex multinational structures • Significant experience with foreign affiliates, surplus planning, tax treaties, withholding taxes, permanent establishment, residency, and other cross-border tax matters • Strong experience with multinational structures, international tax planning, intercompany arrangements, financing, distributions, and cross-border flows • Deep understanding of transfer pricing strategy, policies, documentation, and implementation • Strong knowledge of tax governance, tax risk management, and international tax compliance oversight • Significant experience advising CFOs, founders, senior executives, boards, business owners, or other senior decision-makers on material tax matters • Experience directing and challenging external tax advisers, accounting firms, legal counsel, and other specialists • Strong commercial judgment and ability to balance tax efficiency, technical defensibility, compliance, operational practicality, and broader business objectives • Ability to operate with a high degree of independence, judgment, and ownership • Excellent analytical, written, communication, and negotiation skills • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Law, or another relevant discipline • CPA designation strongly preferred; another equivalent senior professional tax qualification may be considered • Advanced Canadian tax education or professional training is strongly preferred • Experience with complex multinational structures involving Hong Kong or other major international operating jurisdictions is preferred • Prior in-house experience within a complex multinational group is an advantage, but not a requirement • Experience with high-growth and highly international businesses is preferred • Experience with technology, SaaS, software, digital businesses, or other intellectual property-driven organizations is preferred • Strong professional English communication is assessed in the application process

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote: live and work wherever you’re happiest and most productive, with no relocation or travel requirement • Flexible hours: we measure outcomes, not time spent at a desk • Unlimited PTO • Learning and development budget for courses, books, conferences, certifications, and other professional development resources • Home office and wellness allowance • Highly competitive executive-level compensation