Director, Income Tax Reporting & Tax Technology

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Primary Purpose: Tapestry is seeking an experienced Director, Tax Technology & Process Excellence to lead the technology, data, and process capabilities supporting the Company's global income tax reporting and compliance functions. Reporting to the VP, Global Tax, this hands-on role will lead the technology, data, models, controls, and provider-enabled processes that support and enable the Company's ASC 740 provision process and key domestic and international compliance activities, in partnership with the tax reporting and compliance function. The ideal candidate combines strong public company tax accounting knowledge with tax technology, process transformation, and stakeholder leadership experience. The Director will partner with Tax leadership, Corporate Accounting, Finance Systems, Information Technology, Internal Audit, external auditors, and tax providers to streamline execution, strengthen controls, reduce manual effort and human error, and improve the accuracy, transparency, and scalability of tax reporting and compliance.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Tax to...
TAX TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCE
•    Own the business strategy, governance, roadmap, and effective use of OneSource Tax Provision, OneSource Income Tax Compliance, and related tax applications.
•    Lead the design, implementation, testing, enhancement, integration, and ongoing support of technology-enabled tax reporting and compliance solutions.
•    Establish governance standards for tax systems, data, calculations, workflows, access, change management, documentation, and user support.
•    Evaluate and deploy reporting, analytics, workflow automation, and generative AI solutions with appropriate controls and review.
INCOME TAX REPORTING PROCESS SUPPORT
•    Serve as a hands-on technology and process leader for the systems, workflows, calculation models, data validation, reconciliations, controls, and reporting outputs that support the quarterly and annual global income tax provision process under ASC 740, in partnership with the tax reporting function.
•    Partner with Tax leadership and Corporate Accounting to support the underlying systems, data, controls, workflows, and calculation processes used in current and deferred tax calculations, effective tax rate analyses, tax reserves, valuation allowances, uncertain tax positions, and provision-to-return activities, while tax accounting judgments and conclusions remain with the tax reporting function.
•    Support the systems, data, documentation, and reporting processes used by the tax reporting function in preparing income tax disclosures included in Forms 10-Q and 10-K and coordinating responses to external auditor requests. 
•    Support forecasting processes for income tax expense, effective tax rate, and cash taxes through scalable models, standardized data, and reporting tools, in coordination with Tax leadership and Finance.
•    Translate significant tax accounting positions and judgments determined by Tax leadership into sustainable system, data, workflow, control, and reporting solutions.
COMPLIANCE, CO-SOURCING AND TAX MODELS
•    Partner with domestic and international tax teams and external providers to improve the systems, data, calculations, and workflows supporting income tax compliance.
•    Lead co-sourcing initiatives with tax providers to evaluate process ownership, knowledge transfer, automation, strategic insourcing, and sustainable delivery models.
•    Support the design, governance, and continuous improvement of complex domestic and international tax calculation models and technology-enabled reporting and compliance processes.
•    Review provider work product from a process, data, system, and control perspective and coordinate resolution of identified issues.
•    Establish and maintain processes to help ensure return-to-provision, provision-to-return, and related data flows are timely, complete, traceable, and appropriately reflected in tax systems and accounts.
PROCESS EXCELLENCE, CONTROLS AND RISK REDUCTION
•    Lead initiatives to simplify legacy tax processes, eliminate redundant activities and spreadsheet dependencies, reduce manual intervention and human error, and improve auditability.
•    Design standardized, scalable workflows that strengthen data quality, accountability, transparency, and execution across tax reporting and compliance.
•    Partner with Internal Audit, Corporate Accounting, and Information Technology to strengthen tax process controls, SOX documentation, system controls, and evidence retention.
•    Identify and escalate material process, data, system, control, and execution risks to Tax leadership on a timely basis.
•    Develop dashboards and performance metrics to provide visibility into process status, data quality, controls, risks, and improvement opportunities.
LEADERSHIP AND CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION
•    Serve as a trusted advisor to Tax leadership on tax technology, data, reporting processes, co-sourcing, controls, and transformation priorities.
•    Lead, coach, and develop tax professionals and project resources supporting tax technology, reporting, and compliance initiatives.
•    Build strong partnerships with Corporate Accounting, Treasury, FP&A, Legal, Internal Audit, Information Technology, regional tax teams, external auditors, and tax providers.
•    Manage external technology and tax providers for assigned initiatives, including scope, deliverables, quality, issue resolution, budget, value, and efficiency.

The accomplished individual will possess... 
•    Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Information Systems, or a related field.
•    CPA required.
•    10+ years of progressive corporate tax experience, including experience in a Big Four or other major public accounting firm and/or a multinational corporate tax department.
•    Strong knowledge of ASC 740, public company tax reporting, and corporate income tax compliance processes.
•    Demonstrated experience leading tax technology, data, automation, co-sourcing, or process transformation initiatives.
•    Hands-on experience with tax provision and compliance systems, complex calculation models, data validation, and process controls.
•    Strong leadership, analytical, project management, technical writing, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
•    Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and proficiency with corporate tax provision and compliance software.

An outstanding professional will have... 
•    Master's degree in Taxation, Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
•    Experience with OneSource Tax Provision and OneSource Income Tax Compliance.
•    Experience with multinational consumer, retail, apparel, luxury goods, or other complex public company operations.
•    Experience with tax data governance, ERP and tax-system integrations, reporting analytics, workflow automation, or generative AI tools in a controlled corporate environment.
•    Exposure to domestic and international tax calculations, OECD Pillar Two, transactions, and legal entity restructuring.

Our Competencies for All Employees
•    Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
•    Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
•    Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
•    Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
•    Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
•    Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
•    Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Our Competencies for All People Managers
•    Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
•    Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale 
and spirit in his/her team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
•    Managerial Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
 

Our Competencies for All Employees
Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
 
Our Competencies for All People Managers
Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.                                                                                                    
 

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