Director, Global Tax

Hybrid, New York, NY or Remote, United States
* with ability to work EST hours

Amer Sports is a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, powered by a community of people who share a passion for authenticity, impact, and excellence. We bring together leading brands, talented teams, and a culture built on collaboration. If you’re looking for an environment where you can make an impact and grow your career, we invite you to explore the opportunity below.

We’re looking for a Director, Global Tax for Amer Sports’ Tax team!

Amer Sports is seeking a Director, Global Tax to serve as a senior leader within the Global Finance organization, supporting global tax planning, transfer pricing, audit defense, tax risk governance, and the technical tax reporting elements that impact tax returns, provisions, disclosures, and documentation across the Company’s global operations. This role serves as the Company’s lead technical tax advisor for significant transactions and intercompany matters, ensuring tax positions are strategically designed, technically supported, operationally executable, audit-ready, and consistently reflected in tax returns, tax provisions, financial statement disclosures, and supporting documentation.

The ideal candidate is a highly agile, self-driven tax professional with deep international tax, transfer pricing, and controversy experience, along with the ability to translate complex tax matters into clear, decision-ready guidance for senior stakeholders

• Support and execute global tax planning initiatives aligned with business objectives, legal entity structure, intercompany flows, and operational changes.
• Identify and evaluate tax planning opportunities across jurisdictions to optimize effective tax rate, cash tax, and risk profile.
• Advise on the tax implications of business restructurings, cross-border transactions, principal structures, and intercompany arrangements.
• Provide technical tax analysis and documentation for significant transactions, including how positions should be reflected in tax returns, tax provisions, disclosures, and uncertain tax position assessments.

• Review and advise on acquisitions, divestitures, legal entity restructurings, financing arrangements, supply chain changes, and tax operating model transformations.
• Analyze tax consequences of significant business transactions and document technical conclusions.
• Ensure transaction-related tax positions are appropriately reflected in local tax returns, tax provisions, deferred taxes, and financial statement disclosures.
• Prepare and review technical memoranda supporting material tax positions and uncertain tax positions.

• Review effective tax rate drivers and identify planning opportunities.
• Support deferred tax asset valuation assessments and uncertain tax positions.
• Partner with Group Controllers and Finance teams to ensure consistency between provision calculations, statutory filings, and disclosures.
• Support tax accounting reviews for material transactions and non-routine events.
• Own and enhance the global transfer pricing framework, including policy design, intercompany agreements, documentation, and audit-ready support.
• Ensure transfer pricing policies are aligned with operational reality, financial planning, legal entity structure, and OECD/local country requirements.
• Partner with FP&A, business finance, Legal, and external advisors to operationalize transfer pricing outcomes and monitor related risk.
• Support transfer pricing controversy, advance pricing agreements, mutual agreement procedures, and related audit defense where applicable.

• Ensure transfer pricing policies are operationalized through ERP, legal entity, and finance processes.
• Monitor actual results against transfer pricing targets and coordinate year-end adjustments.
• Partner with FP&A, Group Controllers and finance teams to manage transfer pricing execution and financial reporting implications.
• Govern intercompany charging processes and transfer pricing controls.

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