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Senior Tax Counsel – Boston, MA Hybrid

Locations US-MA-Boston
Requisition ID
2024-12382
# of Openings Remaining
1
Position Type
Regular Full-Time

Your Role at Cabot

Cabot Corporation, a Fortune 1000, global specialty chemicals company, is seeking a Senior Tax Counsel to join the Tax organization at the Boston, MA headquarters location. This is a highly visible, key position within the tax team responsible for providing domestic and international tax research and planning for Cabot and its subsidiaries with the objective of minimizing the company’s global tax liability and supporting other business objectives. The role includes extensive interaction with various Cabot teams and outside consultants. This position will participate in many tax department activities, such as tax planning and structuring, M&A, transfer pricing analysis and support, U.S. and non-U.S. tax audit support, SEC reporting, and tax return compliance support.

 

This individual will join a collaborative and tenured tax team supportive of work/life balance with a focus on challenging, cutting-edge topics. This role will have 2 reports.

 

This role is based at the Boston, MA, location, but is eligible to participate in Cabot’s current Flexible Working Arrangement (hybrid) program.

How You Will Make an Impact

  • Lead the development and implementation of sustainable strategies that operate to minimize the company’s worldwide effective tax rate
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve Cabot’s tax structure and help with other business objectives
  • Conduct in-depth legal research and analysis of tax issues related to transactions, operations, transfer pricing and other areas with global tax consequences
  • Support tax aspects of M&A projects
  • Build relationships with senior management and other stakeholders, and thereby be in a position to serve as a trusted business advisor
  • Provide the department with technical tax analysis in all areas of tax research and planning
  • Prepare and review complex elements of U.S. tax filings
  • Monitor and help the company react appropriately to changes in U.S. and non-U.S. tax laws
  • Collaborate with other tax department personnel to develop and implement audit strategies, prepare supporting memoranda, responses, protests, and related documentation
  • Oversee and manage relationship with outside tax consultants
  • Manage and develop direct and indirect reports and lead within the tax group
  • Support ASC 740 processes and SEC reporting as needed

What You Will Bring to Cabot

  • 14+ years tax experience in relevant areas
  • Experience preferably within the public accounting industry or publicly traded U.S. based multi-national companies
  • Law degree with a concentration in tax preferred, but will consider candidates without a legal background
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical material to executives and business managers
  • In-depth understanding of domestic and international tax concepts
  • General understanding of tax accounting and its related impact on financial statement
  • Ability to complete tax modeling and strong understanding of GILTI, BEAT and Pillar 2 concepts
  • Ability to generate creative planning ideas and to apply technical and analytical skills to them to develop and implement tax minimizing strategies
  • Professionalism and interpersonal skills necessary to interact with all levels of business units and management
  • Ability to develop an understanding of global businesses and develop a network of contacts for information about changing business conditions and strategies
  • CPA may be beneficial, but not required

 

How We’ll Support Your Success:

  • Provide a continuous learning environment where you will work on a variety of interesting projects to help you develop as a tax professional
  • Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing meaningful work
  • Hybrid Work Environment – The autonomy to both work from home 2 days a week and develop/sustain colleague relationships in the office 3 days a week
  • Benefits, Vacation, Etc. – We offer a competitive package of benefits
  • Feedback – we are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion
  • Support – you are part of a team and deserve to feel encouraged and supported. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success

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About Cabot


Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Our businesses deliver a broad range of products and solutions to customers in every corner of the globe, serving the transportation, infrastructure, environment and consumer industry sectors. We bring the power of innovative chemistry to solve customers' challenges today while preparing them to meet tomorrow’s needs. Our commitment to innovation is driven by a passion to advance our customers' businesses through our deep understanding of their applications and the global trends that impact their operations.

Innovation that drives sustainability

Many of the world’s greatest sustainability challenges are fundamentally chemistry problems. We can convert the mobility sector from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, but this requires batteries with greater range and lower cost. This is fundamentally a chemistry challenge. We can have a zero-energy building, but this requires high performance insulation, efficient solar panels, and energy storage solutions. Each of these are fundamentally chemistry challenges.

At Cabot, we bring the power of innovative chemistry and a spirit of partnership with our customers to advance solutions that will enable a sustainable future. Our strength in research and development is a major reason why we have been an industry leader for more than 135 years in products such as reinforcing and specialty carbons, battery materials, aerogel, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, masterbatches and conductive compounds.

Our employees around the world are united by our shared purpose: Creating materials that improve daily life and enable a more sustainable future. Through our corporate strategy, “Creating for Tomorrow,” we are focused on our core strengths to lead in performance and sustainability – today and into the future.



EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled


Realizing we function better together than individually, Cabot Corporation is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that embraces our differences and to empower employees to achieve exceptional results, without consideration of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for employees’ and applicants’ disabilities or religious beliefs and practices, in accordance with applicable law.

Nondiscrimination Policy with Respect to Discussion of Pay


This is to advise that it is the policy of Cabot Corporation not to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This policy, however, shall not apply to instances in which an employee who has access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of that employee's essential job functions (such as in payroll or HR) discloses the compensation of such other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to such information, unless that disclosure is in response to a formal complaint or charge, in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing or other action, including an investigation conducted by Cabot, or otherwise as required by law.

Pre-Employment Drug Testing and Background Checks


Cabot is proud to operate as a drug-free workplace. All applicants conditionally offered a position must (a) complete and pass a background check and (b) complete a drug test and receive an acceptable test result. For certain manufacturing, quality and production positions, a pre-employment physical may be required.

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