# Senior Director, Global Tax Planning & Controversy

**Company:** [Square](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/square)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $252k – $377k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** International Tax, Tax Planning, Tax Controversy, Transfer Pricing, U.S. Federal Tax, Corporate Tax, M&A Tax, Tax Audits, Tax Treaties, Foreign Tax Credits, Tax Modeling, Tax Technology
**Posted:** 2026-09-01

> Leads Block’s global tax planning, international tax, M&A tax, and direct-tax controversy strategy, advising executives on complex domestic and cross-border matters. Requires 15+ years of multinational corporate tax experience, substantial in-house public-company experience, and deep U.S. international and federal tax expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop and execute global tax planning strategies aligned with business objectives, financial priorities, and risk tolerance.
- Lead international tax planning for cross-border legal-entity structures, intellectual-property arrangements, intercompany transactions, financing, capital deployment, cash repatriation, and operating-model changes.
- Own U.S. federal and state income tax planning, including consolidated returns, financing transactions, tax attributes, nexus and apportionment, sourcing, filing methodology, and entity structure.
- Analyze tax implications of product launches, product changes, and new market expansion; advise the business on practical alternatives.
- Monitor U.S. and international legislative, regulatory, administrative, judicial, and policy developments and address related risks and opportunities.
- Lead tax matters for domestic and cross-border acquisitions, dispositions, investments, joint ventures, partnerships, reorganizations, and other corporate transactions, from evaluation through tax-return implementation.
- Partner with Corporate Development and Legal on transaction negotiations and tax provisions in agreements, including representations, covenants, indemnities, purchase-price provisions, and withholding obligations.
- Own direct-tax controversy strategy across federal, state, local, and foreign income-tax examinations, appeals, competent-authority proceedings, settlements, and resolutions.
- Represent the company before U.S. and foreign tax authorities and develop audit-defense and dispute-resolution strategies supported by technical analysis, documentation, and quantitative modeling.
- Partner with Tax Reporting & Compliance, Legal, Corporate Development, Treasury, Accounting, FP&A, Product, People, Government Relations, and business leadership.
- Ensure tax planning, transaction structures, uncertain tax positions, and audit resolutions are reflected in tax provisions, financial disclosures, and tax returns.

## Requirements
- 15+ years of multinational corporate income-tax experience covering global tax planning, M&A, and tax controversy.
- In-house tax experience at a publicly traded multinational company.
- Deep U.S. international tax expertise, including cross-border tax, foreign tax credits, treaties, withholding, permanent establishment, financing, and transfer pricing.
- Deep U.S. federal corporate-tax knowledge, including Subchapter C, consolidated returns, reorganizations, financing transactions, and attribute limitations.
- Experience developing and executing sophisticated tax-planning strategies and leading domestic and cross-border transactions end-to-end.
- Experience negotiating tax terms and developing negotiation positions.
- Experience managing significant U.S. and foreign income-tax audits and resolving disputes with tax authorities.
- Strong research, modeling, and technical-writing skills, sound judgment, executive presence, and experience building high-performing teams.

## Nice to Have
- Big Four accounting-firm experience combined with substantial in-house public-company experience.
- MS in Taxation, JD/LLM in Taxation, CPA, or comparable credentials.
- Experience in technology, payments, fintech, digital assets, or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience with capital markets, global cash pooling, intercompany lending, debt restructurings, or capital allocation.
- Experience partnering with government-relations or tax-policy teams.
- Experience applying tax technology, analytics, or AI to analysis, modeling, and audit readiness.

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