Tax Planning Manager
Flowserve · Irving, Texas US, United States
Your Role and Impact
As Tax Planning Manager, you will help shape and execute the global tax strategy for a U.S.-headquartered multinational industrial manufacturing company. You will partner across Tax, Treasury, Legal, Finance, and business teams to support strategic transactions, global cash deployment, and tax-efficient growth initiatives. This high-visibility role offers the opportunity to apply technical tax expertise to complex business decisions, helping drive profitable growth, business transformation, and disciplined risk management.
Key Responsibilities
· Develop and execute tax planning strategies that advance business objectives, minimize tax exposure, and ensure compliance with applicable tax laws and regulations.
· Lead tax analysis and support for legal-entity rationalization, global cash deployment, repatriation, intercompany financing, and cross-border restructuring initiatives.
· Model tax impacts of acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, financing arrangements, and other strategic transactions.
· Perform tax due diligence, support transaction execution, and coordinate tax considerations during post-close integration.
· Prepare and review tax disclosures, workpapers, and supporting documentation for U.S. federal income tax filings related to planning transactions.
· Partner with Tax, Treasury, Legal, Finance, Accounting, and external advisors on tax forecasting, global cash management, and international tax planning initiatives.
· Research complex U.S. federal and international tax matters and translate technical conclusions into clear, practical recommendations for business leaders.
· Identify, assess, document, and help mitigate tax risks; support audit responses and improve tax processes, controls, documentation, and technology-enabled solutions.
Required Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or a related field.
· Five or more years of progressive experience in U.S. federal income tax, including corporate tax planning, technical tax analysis, and tax-position documentation.
· Strong knowledge of U.S. international tax, including controlled foreign corporations, net CFC tested income, Subpart F income, foreign tax credits, base erosion and anti-abuse tax, withholding taxes, and cross-border restructuring.
· Ability to interpret complex tax rules and communicate practical recommendations, risks, opportunities, and implementation requirements to finance and business stakeholders.
· Experience partnering with Tax, Treasury, Legal, Finance, Accounting, and external advisors on transactions, restructurings, or tax-planning initiatives.
· Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, including the ability to develop clear analysis, models, and executive-ready presentations.
Preferred Qualifications
· CPA, J.D., Master’s degree in Taxation, or LL.M. in Taxation.
· Experience with a Big Four accounting firm, law firm, or U.S.-headquartered multinational company.
· Experience supporting complex domestic and cross-border tax structures, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, or carve-out transactions.
What we can offer you
At Flowserve, you'll find a range of options to fit your, and your family's, needs. We want to provide our team with the right resources to invest in your physical, mental and financial well-being no matter where you sit or what stage of life, you're in.
Our benefits* include
• Competitive Salary
• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Retirement Planning & Financial Wellness Resources
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Parental Leave
• Life, Supplemental Life, Child, Spousal, and AD&D Insurance
*Benefits vary by job, location and/or collective bargaining agreement.