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Principal – Tax Planning & Strategy

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🔥 2 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💰 Tax

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Protective Life

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1908

💸 Finance

🛡️ Insurance

Finance • Insurance

Protective Life is a financial services company specializing in providing affordable life insurance and annuities. The company offers a variety of insurance products such as term life, whole life, and universal life policies, as well as fixed, immediate, indexed, and variable annuities. Protective Life assists individuals in planning for their future, including retirement, estate planning, and financial protection for families. The company emphasizes its commitment to sustainability, community involvement, and helping customers achieve protection and security throughout various life stages. Protective Life is known for its strong financial foundation and is licensed to operate in all states except New York.

📋 Description

• Identify, evaluate, and implement tax planning strategies supporting business objectives, improving tax efficiency, preserving tax attributes, and enhancing capital effectiveness • Lead tax diligence, structuring, modeling, and integration for acquisitions, dispositions, and reorganizations, including legal-entity and intercompany arrangements • Lead international tax analysis and global initiatives, including Pillar Two and Bermuda corporate income tax • Partner with parent-company stakeholders on U.S. and cross-border tax planning • Support business lines and legal and operational teams on policyholder tax matters • Lead research on complex and emerging tax issues; prepare and review technical memoranda and communicate recommendations to senior stakeholders • Lead cross-functional projects from analysis through implementation • Manage external advisor engagements and collaborate with internal tax teams • Mentor and train tax professionals and provide development opportunities through complex projects • Report to the VP, Head of Corporate Tax; operate as an individual contributor with no direct reports

🎯 Requirements

• CPA required; JD or LLM in Taxation a plus • 10+ years of progressive corporate tax experience in public accounting and/or a large corporate tax function • Significant experience in tax planning and transactions, including diligence, structuring, and implementation • Experience with international tax and Pillar Two; Bermuda corporate income tax experience strongly preferred • Insurance industry experience strongly preferred, including familiarity with policyholder tax matters • Deep knowledge of U.S. corporate and consolidated return taxation • Strong technical research and analytical skills • Strong understanding of international tax, global minimum tax requirements, and transaction-related tax considerations • Ability to connect technical analysis with business economics, risk, and strategic priorities • Ability to independently lead complex projects and influence stakeholders across functions without direct reporting authority • Clear communication, sound judgment, collaborative approach, and commitment to customer service and developing others

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance • Mental health benefits • Employee assistance program • Paid time off • Paid parental leave • Short-term disability • Cultural observance day • Contributions to healthcare accounts • Pension plan • 401(k) plan with Company matching • ProHealth Rewards platform with cash rewards • Annual incentive based on individual and Company performance

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