[Hiring] Global Head of Tax @Progress Partners

Role Description

We are seeking a highly experienced international tax leader to join Progress Partners as Global Head of Tax and take full ownership of the group’s tax function. This is a senior strategic leadership role with long-term responsibility for the group’s global tax strategy and structure, with Canadian tax considerations at the core of the role.

• Serve as the group’s most senior tax expert and principal tax advisor to the executive leadership.
• Substantial autonomy across international tax planning, cross-border structuring, transfer pricing, intercompany arrangements, surplus planning, tax governance, compliance oversight, and other significant tax matters.
• Independently evaluate sophisticated tax strategies, proactively identify risks and opportunities, challenge existing structures and recommendations where appropriate, and develop tax-efficient, commercially practical, and technically robust positions.
• Work closely with leading external tax, accounting, and legal advisers across jurisdictions while maintaining internal ownership of the group’s overall tax strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the group’s global tax strategy across its international structure and operations.
• Serve as the principal tax advisor to the executive leadership on significant tax and strategic matters.
• Lead sophisticated international and cross-border tax planning, including the evaluation and development of tax-efficient corporate structures.
• Advise on foreign affiliates, surplus planning, repatriation, cross-border distributions, tax treaties, withholding taxes, permanent establishment, residency, central management and control, and other cross-border considerations.
• Own the group’s transfer pricing strategy and oversee related policies, methodologies, intercompany agreements, documentation, and implementation.
• Lead the tax analysis of intercompany financing, service arrangements, intellectual property arrangements, distributions, and other cross-border flows.
• Establish and continuously improve the group’s tax governance framework, internal controls, documentation standards, and tax risk management processes.
• Oversee the group’s direct and indirect tax compliance and reporting obligations across relevant jurisdictions, working with internal teams and external advisers as appropriate.
• Proactively identify tax planning opportunities, structural improvements, and material tax risks as the group continues to expand.
• Lead tax audits, disputes, controversy matters, and interactions with tax authorities.
• Direct and coordinate external accounting firms, tax advisers, legal counsel, and other specialists across jurisdictions, while critically evaluating their recommendations.
• Work closely with finance, legal, accounting, and executive leadership to incorporate tax considerations into major business and financial decisions and translate complex tax matters into clear, practical recommendations.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressively senior experience in Canadian and international tax, including substantial experience within a Big Four or other leading accounting firm.
• Demonstrated experience operating at a senior leadership level in international tax, typically at Senior Director level or above within a leading accounting firm, or at an equivalent level of responsibility within a complex multinational organization.
• A proven track record of independently leading highly complex international tax matters and taking ownership of tax strategy.
• Deep expertise in Canadian international tax and the application of Canadian tax principles to complex multinational structures.
• Significant experience with foreign affiliates, surplus planning, tax treaties, withholding taxes, permanent establishment, residency, and other cross-border tax matters.
• Strong experience with multinational structures, international tax planning, intercompany arrangements, financing, distributions, and cross-border flows.
• Deep understanding of transfer pricing strategy, policies, documentation, and implementation.
• Strong knowledge of tax governance, tax risk management, and oversight of international tax compliance.
• Significant experience advising CFOs, founders, senior executives, boards, business owners, or other senior decision-makers on material tax matters.
• Experience directing and challenging external tax advisers, accounting firms, legal counsel, and other specialists.
• Strong commercial judgment and the ability to balance tax efficiency, technical defensibility, compliance, operational practicality, and broader business objectives.
• Ability to operate with a high degree of independence, judgment, and ownership.
• Excellent analytical, written, communication, and negotiation skills.

Education and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Law, or another relevant discipline.
• CPA designation strongly preferred; another equivalent senior professional tax qualification may be considered.
• Advanced Canadian tax education or professional training, such as completion of the CPA In-Depth Tax Program, an LL.M. or Master’s degree in Taxation, or comparable advanced tax qualifications, is strongly preferred.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with complex multinational structures involving Hong Kong or other major international operating jurisdictions.
• Prior in-house experience within a complex multinational group. This is an advantage, but not a requirement for senior candidates from leading accounting firms with substantial experience advising multinational organizations.
• Experience with high-growth and highly international businesses.
• Experience with technology, SaaS, software, digital businesses, or other intellectual property-driven organizations.

How We Work

• We’re fully remote and distributed across time zones.
• We default to async, communicate extensively in writing, and trust people to deliver outcomes, not log hours.
• Decisions are transparent, ownership is clear, and senior leaders are given significant autonomy to make decisions, challenge assumptions, and drive outcomes.

What We Offer

• Highly competitive executive-level compensation.
• 100% remote: live and work wherever you’re happiest and most productive, with no relocation or travel requirement.
• Flexible hours: we measure outcomes, not time spent at a desk.
• Unlimited PTO: take the time you need to rest, recharge, and do your best work.
• Learning and development budget: courses, books, conferences, certifications, and other resources that support your professional development.
• Home office and wellness allowance: a dedicated budget to set up your workspace and support your health.

Equal Opportunity

Progress Partners is an equal opportunity employer, and we’re serious about building a diverse and inclusive team. We welcome applications from people of all genders, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, ages, ethnicities, nationalities, religions, disabilities, neurotypes, family situations, socioeconomic backgrounds, and life experiences.

We hire on skills, experience, potential, and values fit, never on protected characteristics. If you need accommodations during the application or interview process, just let us know.