Royal Caribbean Group · 6 days ago
Director, Global Tax Operations
Miami, FL
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
8+ years expRoyal Caribbean Group is a leader in the vacation industry with global brands, seeking a Director of Global Tax Operations. This role involves overseeing Global Tax Operations across all consolidated brands, managing tax compliance, and ensuring adherence to tax protocols while collaborating with various internal stakeholders.
Travel
No H1B
Responsibilities
Overseeing ASC740 process and reporting globally, including review of journal entries, preparation of review of provision workpapers, analysis of tax accounting pronouncements
Oversight of global tax compliance, including (i) overseeing team members that prepare U.S. federal income tax filings, U.S. state income tax filings, U.S. sales and use tax filings, and Misc. U.S. compliance and reporting (ii) liaising with foreign finance teams who are responsible for non-US tax compliance, (iii) maintaining global tax calendar and protocols and (iv) oversight over outside advisors that assist in the overall compliance filings
Maintenance of select SOX tax controls (e.g., tax reconciliations) for the Tax Department (or similar tax control requirements globally, e.g., UK Senior Accounting Rules)
Responsibility for Tax Forecasting and Variance Analysis
Oversight over local statutory financial accounts as related to tax (e.g., tax footnote disclosures)
Primary responsibility for all aspects of Global Tax Operations, including (1) global tax provision (2) global tax compliance (3) Managing SOX controls or other similar global requirements as related to tax operation function (4) forecasting and variance analysis and (5) Statutory accounts
Responsible for all aspects of accounting for income taxes (ASC 740) for all subsidiaries, including quarterly tax provision workpapers and journal entries (including OneSource Tax provision workpapers), analysis of tax accounting literature, and SEC compliance
Liaison with management and external auditors on tax accounting issues
Lead U.S. tax operations team responsible for preparation of tax return and return to provision adjustments for U.S. federal income tax filings; U.S. state income tax filings, U.S. sales and use tax filings, U.S. property tax filings and other Misc U.S. tax compliance filings as relevant
Oversight of the tax returns and return-to-provision adjustments for the Company’s international subsidiaries, including active collaboration with international finance teams to ensure timely and accurate filing of foreign tax returns
Maintenance of global tax compliance calendar and ensure global adherence to Company Global Tax Compliance Protocols
Develop and maintain appropriate internal controls in place over accounting for income taxes and global tax operations matters. This includes preparation, review and presentation of all global balance sheet tax reconciliations quarterly to the Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, and well as maintenance of the UK Senior Accounting Rules (SAO) rules and control testing
Lead team responsible for U.S. income tax forecast and variance analysis, and compilation and presentation of global variance analysis monthly to internal stakeholders
Review of statutory accounts as relevant for tax, including review and tie out of income tax footnote
Manage, oversee and defend audits or litigation related to U.S. federal or state matters, and support Director, Tax Strategy in maintaining and supporting documentation or data necessary for global tax audits where required
Act as a liaison with outside tax counsel and directs projects for which such individuals are engaged, including tax return prepares
Support the Vice President Global Tax in consulting regularly with internal departments such as international finance, legal, accounting, commercial development, IT, etc., as relevant to Global Tax Operations function
Ensures that tax positions, restructuring or new business initiatives / structures are correctly reported on timely filed tax returns and income tax provisions
Develop and execute strategy as related to tax technology, including deciding what subscriptions/tools are required, managing relationships with tax technology providers, (Thompson Reuters & BNA, etc.)
Responsible for forecasting income tax expense for select US and non-US companies, as well as variance analysis
Responsibility for overseeing G&A budget as related to Tax Department functions and outside consulting spend for Operations functions (e.g., external tax return prepares, etc.)
Qualification
Required
minimum eight years' experience in Public Accounting or ten plus years industry experience in Tax Department, including experience in global/multinational tax operations
Advanced tax degree and/or law qualification, LLB
CPA or JD (CPA preferred given tax accounting focus)
Strong ASC740 background and experience in a global/multinational company or environment
Typical PC and software skills including Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, tax research tools and databases
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously
Strong leadership skills and ability to effectively lead team
Strong analytical and reasoning skills
Strong technical research skills
Excellent judgment and the ability to make decisions and assess acceptable levels of business risk
Ability to effectively communicate with executive management, including the ability to simplify technical jargon
Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodical, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations
Ability to write reports and business correspondence
Ability to simplify, condense and communicate technical information and respond to questions from groups of executives, managers, clients, customers and the public
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form
Preferred
Spanish preferred but not required
Familiarity with systems such as JDE, Oracle, Essbase, Hyperion, OneSource Tax Provision preferred
Benefits
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Excellent career development opportunities
Company
Royal Caribbean Group
Royal Caribbean Group is a cruise vacation company with a global fleet of 63 ships traveling around the world.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$15.43BKey Investors
RCI HoldingsMorgan Stanley
2025-09-22Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2025-05-14Post Ipo Debt· $2.28B
2024-09-16Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
Leadership Team
Jason Liberty
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Matt Denesuk
SVP, Chief AI Officer
Recent News
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2026-01-16
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