Job Description:

Tax Director - M&A

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

 As the Tax Director - M&A, you will serve as the strategic tax advisor for all mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic investments. You will lead a small team responsible for managing external advisors, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and designing tax-efficient transaction structures to maximize value and minimize risk.  The Tax Director - M&A will have an expected high level of autonomy in day-to-day decision making with close and regular communication with other tax stakeholders around impacts of M&A to 3M’s global tax positions.  Here, you will make an impact by:

• Deal Structuring: Develop and execute tax-efficient structures for domestic and international acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings.
• Due Diligence: Lead the tax acquisition and disposition due diligence process including identifying, quantifying, and mitigating historical and structural tax risks.
• Transaction Documentation: Review and negotiate tax representations, warranties, indemnities, and covenants in purchase agreements.
• Post-Acquisition Integration: Ownership over the tax integration of acquired entities, including aligning accounting methods and legal entity rationalization.
• Collaboration: Partner closely with the global tax organization and other functions such as Corporate Development, Legal, Treasury, and Finance teams throughout the deal lifecycle.
• Modeling & Valuation: Quantify tax attributes, such as net operating losses (NOLs) and tax basis, to incorporate into financial models.
• Advisory Management: Manage external tax advisors, specialized legal counsel, and valuation experts to ensure timely deliverables.
• Structuring and Planning: Team with other members of the Tax organization to develop and implement internal planning projects.

Your Skills and Expertise

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting or Tax (completed and verified prior to start).  
• Ten (10) years of corporate tax or accounting experience in a private, public, government or military environment

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• Five (5) years of experience with M&A tax, including due diligence and structuring.
• Deep knowledge of Subchapter C, Subchapter K, and international tax principles related to transactions.
• Proven experience managing complex, multi-jurisdictional buy-side and sell-side transactions.
• Possess a strong ability and desire to network across functions within 3M
• Be a team player with the ability to operate successfully in a matrix environment, with strong influencing and communication skills
• You should have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and a willingness to adapt to changing business environments
• Experience in international tax and/or tax planning with an ability to model scenarios
• In-house experience running tax M&A function, including leading buy and sell due diligence, step plan development and execution, and tax-specific contract negotiations
• Strong understanding of income tax concepts, including M&A and foreign issues impacting US taxpayers
• Ability to work independently on tax research projects and document findings in collaboration with other senior tax team members
• The ideal candidate will be a highly reliable self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills, be detail-oriented, and have the flexibility and ability to work on time-sensitive issues under strict deadlines
• Exhibited sense of urgency to drive effective change

Work location: 

• Work location: This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at the 3M Center in Maplewood, MN OR, Washington, DC, OR Austin, TX.

Travel: May include up to 20% Domestic/International Travel

Relocation: Is not authorized

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope. 

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