Tax Governance Lead

Company Description

Dropbox is a leading global collaboration platform that's transforming the way people work together, from the smallest business to the largest enterprise. With more than 700 million registered users across more than 180 countries, our mission is to design a more enlightened way of working. From our headquarters in San Francisco to eight dedicated Studios and a worldwide team of employees who choose where they work best, our Virtual First approach is leading the way into the future of work.

Team Description

Our Finance team builds the financial infrastructure to scale our growing company. We combine analytical and strategic thinking to develop a sound financial future for our global brand. We work closely with teams across the company, as well as with external partners.

Role Description
The Dropbox Tax team has an exciting opportunity for a Legal Entity Tax Governance Lead. This role will partner and collaborate seamlessly with members of the Tax, Finance, Legal and business teams to help drive and support our commercial strategy, tax, legal and finance initiatives for for Dropbox.
In this role, you’ll bring enthusiasm for all things governance related and thrive teaming with other smart Tax folks to drive and deliver Dropbox projects and initiatives. You’ll be ready to roll up your sleeves to design and implement tax and legal entity governance processes, policies, best practices, and frameworks to help scale a growing team and function. You are a self-starter who follows through, gets stuff done, and has a passion for problem solving, and process improvement.

**Responsibilities**:
This exciting role has overall accountability for managing E2E foreign legal entity corporate governance including ownership of tax and legal processes, establishing project / process steps, drafting, or overseeing drafting of documentation, researching, and ensuring compliance with local country requirements, coordinating execution, maintaining documentation and records. Core responsibilities include:
Legal entity formation - Owner of tax and legal steps required to establish new legal entity including working with external counsel and across internal finance and legal teams to identify implementation plan and subsequent project management of cross-functional finance, legal, HR teams to facilitate E2E delivery of new legal entity
Legal entity dissolution - Lead / owner of tax and legal steps required to wind down / dissolve legal entity
New jurisdiction research - Monitor global headcount changes / business expansion and evaluate if new tax or legal requirements are required to operating in the jurisdiction, such as business registration
Manage profile of registered offices with Spaces / Regus, including on-line profile, point of contact, etc.
Manage Board Meetings / annual shareholder resolutions, including:
Quarterly meetings - gathering information from presenters, orchestrating meetings, minutes, documentation, resolutions, maintaining documentation, records, etc.
Annual local country legal entity requirements, such as the approval of statutory of financial statements
On-boarding / training of Board members re requirements / cadence

Board Director changes - appointments and resignation, including coordination of communications with impacted internal teams (payroll, benefits, HR, accounting, etc.)
Manages delegation of authority for in country representatives
Makes ad hoc updates to legal entity records including change in ownership, registered address, notification to tax authorities and other third parties as required, etc.
Conducts new jurisdiction research - Monitoring global headcount / business expansion and evaluating if new tax or legal requirements are required to operating in the jurisdiction, such as business registration
Manages profile of registered offices with Spaces / Regus, including on-line profile, point of contact, etc.

**Additional responsibilities include**:
Tax project management - drive E2E project steps and cross-functional collaboration / delivery in support of tax projects and initiatives such as M&A tax / legal entity integration steps, tax controversy audit project management and key tax department projects / initiatives
Establishing tax governance best practices and processes to maintain / organize document repository to support tax audits and inquiries.

**Requirements**:
7+ years of in-house experience leading legal entity corporate / tax governance and/or M&A tax integration at a large multinational technology company with progressively increasing responsibilities and accountability
Proven experience achieving results planning and executing complex projects requiring coordination of work in cross-functional environments, cultures, and time-zones
Exceptional project management skills including processes, reporting, and developing project management templates and tools
Creative problem-solving skills - enjoys and excels at independently researching legal and tax re