You Want To Find A Head Of Tax Role: What Do You Do?

Posted on by Kat J

What most people do not realize is there is a hidden population of tax executives unable to make the connections they need to be hired into a Head of Tax role. With a track record of more than one thousand tax executive placements over thirty years, we have developed a program that ensures the tax executives with the requisite technical and interpersonal skills have access to these top tax jobs. We have developed a tax executive search strategy to ensure connections for tax executives occur.

Over the years, we have encountered tax executives whose lives have changed dramatically due to a retiring CFO who they shared a great relationship with and now a new CFO has arrived who has a different view of the tax function. Their view is to reorganize the tax function further from the CFO and have tax report to someone else. This type of change always frustrates a Head of Tax because they need to be close to what the business is doing, so they can create more tax savings for the company. In all honesty, it is often the less experienced CFO who calls and realizes by not involving the Head of Tax in the transaction upfront results in loss of tax savings. The lesson to learn here is that the relationship between the Head of Tax and the CFO is critically important in an organization. When the CFO and the Head of Tax work closely together on complex corporate business transactions the magic happens. There is always a greater cost to an organization who does not have tax reporting to the CFO.

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How To Proactively And Privately Secure A Head Of Tax Role

Posted on by Kat J

For those who may not know my reputation, I have been in tax executive search profession for over three decades. My team and I have successfully placed more than one thousand tax professionals within multinational corporations around the world. This record of tax executive placements was accomplished with the support of a top-notch team focused on introducing management level tax executives to corporations. The focus of this post is to help tax executives find and connect with the tax role of their dreams. When I tell you how this happens for tax executives, I know what I am talking about after surpassing the 1000 executive placements level of accomplishment. Listen when I tell you the executive search experience has changed over the years. This article is about sharing with you how to actively pursue the tax role of your dreams.

The secret to success is to be proactive and have an expert that knows what they are doing to represent you and make certain they are doing the work for you. Tax executives are like athletes (they are highly motivated individuals with the primary goal of improving their performances) who have invested a lot of time and money to grow professionally. There are three ways one can approach their tax career…actively, reactively, or proactively. Let me explain the ways and you can decide for yourself which category you are in right now.

Actively: You are a tax executive quietly communicating with a few recruiters with no loyalty to any person. You just tell the recruiter to keep me informed if you hear about a HOT role. Likewise, the tax recruiter is not loyal to you as they have access to thousands of HOT tax executive candidates to introduce to clients.

Reactively: Something just changed in your company reporting relationship where a new boss replaces your former boss. Your new boss has decided to reorganize the tax function, and your role is now reporting to a  Controller or CAO with little understanding of tax and how it is important to be part of business strategy while working closely with the CFO.

Proactively: You behave like an athlete and take a proactive approach to secure a corporate Head of Tax role by working with a dedicated agent working only for you. This involves loyalty from each party, and you have access to all the work being done on your behalf. Remember all great sports have Agents representing them and proactive tax athletes have one, too! Contact ki***@*****ch.com for information how this program works.

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