Associate Compensation & Benefits Tax Counsel
Johnson & Johnson
Full-time
Remote friendly (New Brunswick, NJ)
United States
$173,000 - $300,000 USD yearly
Corporate Functions
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Role Summary
Associate Compensation & Benefits Tax Counsel. This role reports to the VP Compensation & Benefits Tax Counsel and provides high-level technical tax and legal advice to management in the administration of the company’s worldwide employee compensation and benefit plans.
Responsibilities
- Advise management regarding tax and legal requirements in areas including qualified retirement plans, stock based compensation, employee welfare benefit plans, employee fringe benefits, mergers, acquisitions & divestitures, plan asset investments, and executive compensation matters.
- Advise on payroll withholding and reporting matters and other global employee compensation and benefits matters.
- Ensure compliance with laws and regulations applicable to employee compensation and benefits.
Qualifications
- Required: Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
- Required: Minimum of one active state (or District of Columbia) bar admission.
- Required: Minimum of 10 years of experience at a law firm, accounting firm, and/or major corporation advising on a wide variety of employee compensation & benefits tax and legal matters.
- Required: Working knowledge of internal revenue code provisions applicable to taxation of employee compensation and benefits and ERISA.
- Required: Experience advising on compensation and benefits matters in mergers, acquisitions, and divestiture transactions.
- Required: Experience advising on plan asset investment matters.
- Required: Excellent business partnering and communication skills, with the ability to explain highly technical matters to management.
Preferred Skills
- Exposure to and general knowledge of laws of some major non-U.S. jurisdictions regarding employee compensation and benefit matters, reporting and withholding, and employee location compliance (preferred).
Education
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school (Required).
Additional Requirements
- Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company.