Your Job
We are seeking a contribution-motivated M&A Tax Senior Associate to join Koch Industries in our Dallas, TX or Wichita, KS office to grow Koch's M&A tax capability. In addition to the traditional M&A functions described below, you will help develop the capability into a best-in-class team and provide input on how to transform the capability to better serve the business and its employees.
Our Team
The M&A Tax capability supports each of the Koch subsidiaries on potential acquisitions and divestitures and the Koch Investments Group on potential hedge fund, private equity, venture capital, real estate, and structured finance investments. Following an acquisition, the M&A Tax capability also assists with integrating a target with Koch. Koch has historically been extremely active in the M&A market, investing more than $120 billion in growth since 2003. Koch Investments Group has closed over 100 individual investments.
What You Will Do
- Assist on tax and diligence issues surrounding acquisitions, divestitures, and investments, including coordination of multiple tax functions as part of the diligence process.
- Review contracts with respect to acquisitions, divestitures, and investments.
- Research tax issues related to structuring of acquisitions, divestitures, and investments, including tax costs (e.g., rates, repatriation) and tax attributes (e.g., NOLs, tax credits, etc.) with respect to potential transactions.
- Model tax costs (e.g., rates, repatriation) and tax attributes (e.g., NOLs, tax credits, etc.) with respect to potential transactions.
- Develop relationships with Business Development, Legal, Treasury, and Accounting business group leaders.
- Work with outside tax advisors at major law firms and accounting firms to analyze and document complex tax issues.
- Develop recommendations and present the economic and technical aspects of transactions to diverse audiences.
- Draft complex transactional step plans that incorporate legal, accounting, and tax effects of transactions.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Taxation or related field, and/or a JD or LL.M. in Taxation.
- Experience with consulting on tax due diligence, tax structuring, legal entity rationalizations, divestitures, and corporate reorganizations.
- Prior background with tax technical research and modeling of tax attributes and deal related deductions.
What Will Put You Ahead
- M&A Tax experience at a law or accounting firm, including structuring and/or contract negotiation.
- Proficiency in advanced Microsoft Excel functions (including, but not limited to V-Look up and Pivot tables).
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers.
Who We Are
Koch Industries creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs 120,000+ employees across the globe.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.
