Transfer Pricing & International Tax Director

Position Overview

Celestica is a technology leader dedicated to driving customer success and market advancements. With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud and advances technologies in high-growth markets. With a talented team and a strategic global network, Celestica helps its customers achieve a competitive advantage. Our end-to-end product lifecycle solutions support the most complex products across multiple markets, including communications, enterprise, aerospace and defense, smart energy, healthcare technology, industrial and capital equipment. In this dynamic global enterprise, the Global Tax group oversees complex global tax matters of diverse scope where analysis requires evaluation of business and taxation aspects on a multinational or global basis.

As the Director, Transfer Pricing and International Tax, you'll be a strategic leader within Celestica's Global Tax organization who will play a key role in facilitating the execution of the company's worldwide tax strategy, as well to play a leadership role in global tax operations, processes, compliance, tax authority examinations, and partner with cross-functional or business teams to ensure effective tax execution aligned with business initiatives or company objectives. You will be responsible for managing complex transfer pricing and international tax matters, ensuring compliance across all jurisdictions, and optimizing the global tax structure to support business growth and profitability. This role calls for an accomplished transfer pricing professional with deep expertise in transfer pricing with experience in international tax, capable of influencing executive decisions, setting long-term strategy for transfer pricing, guiding cross-border structuring initiatives, manage significant global tax risks, and leading a high-performing global tax function across the Americas, Europe, and Asia region that executes on strategic, operational and compliance aspects of the transfer pricing function.

Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Execution of Global TP Strategy & Operational Leadership: Define, develop, and lead Celestica's global transfer pricing strategy and policy, and oversee the team’s execution of transfer pricing initiatives, which includes ensuring alignment of TP principles for global cost or profit allocation methods with our business operating model.
• TP Team Leadership & Talent Development: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing global tax and transfer pricing team that will be accountable for transfer pricing operations and compliance. Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous learning and improvement, and strong ethical conduct.
• TP Compliance & Reporting Oversight: Direct and manage various aspects of global transfer pricing compliance, ensuring timely and accurate filing of local files, master file, benchmarking studies, CbCR or similar reports, and support Pillar 2 Global Minimum Tax reporting requirements.
• Intercompany Transaction Compliance and Advisory: Oversee tax and transfer pricing aspects of all intercompany transactions of goods and services, including corporate and regional services, stewardship activities, design and engineering services, sale of inventory or assets, and cross-border financing or cash repatriation requirements. Ensure documentation and agreements reflects proper economic and functional substance and computations are accurately and timely delivered for incorporation of results into forecasts and deliverables.
• Financial Reporting: Play a key supporting role in driving the timely delivery of the quarterly and annual consolidated global tax accounting and financial reporting requirements (US GAAP) of the tax group, and provide insights into key transfer pricing and international tax drivers impacting global taxes. Also be a key contributor to the tax forecasting processes to produce reliable, accurate and timely guidance of projected tax rates and cash tax costs.
• Strategic TP Risk Management & Controversy: Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate transfer pricing and tax risks across all global jurisdictions, and anticipate future TP challenges related to global expansion and business transformation. Assist in directing the management of complex tax audits, disputes, and challenges with tax authorities worldwide, developing robust defense strategies and negotiating favourable resolutions. Support business changes and value chain transformations, including securing APAs and driving reorganization transactions.
• Cross-Functional Business Advisory: Provide practical advice and strategic recommendations to senior leadership and cross-functional teams on transfer pricing and international tax matters in connection with M&A, significant transactions, new business initiatives or arrangements, and operational changes.
• TP Governance, Policy & Process Architecture and Transformation: Drive the development and implementation of global tax and transfer pricing policies, internal controls, and processes to enhance automation and efficiency, reduce risk and increase consistency, and effectively leverage technology solutions to design and implement scalable operational transfer pricing processes and reporting frameworks.
• Legislative Monitoring & Impact Analysis: Continuously monitor and identify changes in global tax and transfer pricing legislation and regulatory landscapes. Proactively assess their potential impact on Celestica's operations and develop strategies to adapt and ensure ongoing compliance and tax optimization.

Critical Skills and Competencies

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• Broad Transfer Pricing and International Tax Expertise: Substantial knowledge of global transfer pricing and international tax rules and processes, as well as a strong understanding of corporate income tax, indirect taxes, withholding tax, global tax transparency reporting, and global minimum tax requirements. Has experience operating across diverse global tax systems in Americas, Europe, and Asia.
• Strategic & Business-Oriented Leadership: Ability to integrate tax and transfer pricing strategy with overall business objectives, providing commercially viable and legally sound tax and transfer pricing solutions that impact our business.
• Effective Leadership Presence & Influence: Solid interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex tax concepts to executives, Board members, auditors and global tax or regulatory bodies. Possesses the ability to influence senior leadership decisions and building critical relationships with global stakeholders.
• Advanced Analytical & Problem-Solving: Strong analytical capabilities to interpret complex tax and transfer pricing legislation, model significant financial impacts, and devise innovative tax planning and controversy resolution strategies.
• Strong Risk Management & Controversy Proficiency: Demonstrated ability to identify, assess, and manage significant tax and transfer pricing risks and skillfully navigate complex global tax controversies.
• Comprehensive Compliance & Governance: Strong understanding of transfer pricing compliance requirements, transaction advisory including intercompany corporate/regional services, and corporate governance best practices.
• Proven Functional Leadership & Talent Development: Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and motivate a high-performing global tax team. Experience in developing and driving talent initiatives within a complex multinational organization.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements are frequently required (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc).
• Occasional overnight travel is required.

Typical Experience

• Typically requires 12+ years of progressive tax and transfer pricing experience, with at least 4-6 years in a senior management role within a multinational corporation, or equivalent experience at a top-tier public accounting firm advising large publicly listed corporate clients with global scope.
• Proven track record of defining and successfully executing tax strategies and managing highly complex tax and transfer pricing matters, leading a diverse and highly skilled team, as well as ability to influence or lead cross-functional initiatives to align overall tax and transfer pricing strategies to business objectives and provide strategic advice to executive leadership.

Typical Education

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• CPA, CA or equivalent accounting/tax designation and completion of CPA In-Depth Tax Program, and/or Masters of Tax.  

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.