Associate Compensation & Benefits Tax Counsel

Role Summary

Associate Compensation & Benefits Tax Counsel. This role is located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Reports to the VP Compensation & Benefits Tax Counsel. The candidate will provide high level technical tax and legal advice to management in the administration of the company’s worldwide employee compensation and benefit plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide high‑level technical tax and legal advice to management in the administration of the company’s worldwide employee compensation and benefit plans.
• Ensure compliance with laws and regulations applicable to employee compensation and benefits; advise on tax and legal requirements in areas including qualified retirement plans, stock-based compensation, welfare and 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.

Qualifications

• Required: Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
• Required: Active bar admission in at least one state or the District of Columbia.
• Required: Minimum 10 years of experience at a law firm, accounting firm and/or major corporation advising clients or management on a wide variety of employee compensation & benefits tax and legal matters.
• Required: Working knowledge of the Internal Revenue Code provisions applicable to the taxation of employee compensation and benefits and of ERISA.
• Required: Experience advising on compensation and benefits matters in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.
• Required: Experience advising on plan asset investment matters.
• Required: Excellent business partnering and communication skills — ability to communicate highly technical matters to management whose knowledge may be more general.

Skills

• Tax Advising
• Tax Compliance
• Tax Management
• Communication and business partnering
• Analytical thinking
• Legal drafting and advisory capabilities

Education

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school