Job Description
* Reports to Tax Director -- Reporting & Special Projects
* Supervise senior tax accountants & offshore-based compliance staff
* Close liaison with Nashville-based domestic tax compliance group
* Manage tax reporting for international operations, including review of Forms 5471 & 8858, GILTI calculations, foreign tax credits, and country by country reporting
* Active role in quarterly & annual accounting for income taxes for a multinational public corporation: determination of effective tax rate, maintenance of balance sheet tax accounts, and preparation of related financial statement ASC 740 and FIN 48 disclosures
* Monitor BEPS and other international legislative changes that may impact LKQ's tax position, including tax accounting implications
* Prepare responses to IRS income tax audit inquiries
Requirements
Minimum education required:
* Undergraduate degree in Accounting
* CPA required
* Masters in Taxation highly desirable
Minimum work experience required:
* 5-10 years progressive experience in corporate income taxation
* Significant large corporate group experience in public accounting and/or a corporate tax department
Special skills required:
* Experience with US tax reporting of international operations required
* Strongly preferred experience in accounting for income taxes (ASC 740, FIN 48), including tax effects of US GAAP purchase accounting
* Experience with corporate tax compliance and provision systems preferred (OneSource, TaxStream, or CorpTax)
Position Type
Full-time
Chicago, IL
LKQ Corporation is an American provider of alternative and specialty parts to repair and accessorize automobiles and other vehicles. LKQ has operations in North America, Europe and Taiwan. LKQ offers its customers a broad range of replacement systems, components, equipment and parts to repair and accessorize automobiles, trucks, and recreational and performance vehicles. As of 2018, it was #300 on the Fortune 500 list. In March of 2017, Dominick P. Zarcone was selected to become the new President and Chief Executive Office.
LKQ was initially formed in 1998 through the combination of a number of wholesale recycled products businesses located in Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. We subsequently expanded through internal development and over 220 acquisitions of aftermarket, recycled, refurbished, and remanufactured product suppliers and manufacturers; self service retail businesses; and specialty vehicle aftermarket equipment and accessories suppliers. Our most significant acquisitions include:
• 2007 acquisition of Keystone Automotive Industries, Inc., which, at the time of acquisition, was the leading domestic distributor of aftermarket products, including collision replacement products, paint products, refurbished steel bumpers, bumper covers and alloy wheels.
• 2011 acquisition of Euro Car Parts Holdings Limited ("ECP"), a vehicle mechanical aftermarket parts distribution company operating in the United Kingdom. This acquisition allowed us to expand our operations into the European automotive aftermarket business.
• 2013 acquisition of Sator Beheer B.V. ("Sator"), a vehicle mechanical aftermarket parts distribution company based in the Netherlands, with operations in the Netherlands, Belgium and Northern France. This acquisition allowed us to further expand our geographic presence into continental Europe.
• 2014 acquisition of Keystone Specialty, which expanded our product offering and increased our addressable market to include specialty vehicle aftermarket equipment and accessories.
• On December 22, 2015, LKQ announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the holding company of Rhiag-Inter Auto Parts Italia
• S.p.A (“Rhiag”), a leading pan-European business-to-business distributor of aftermarket spare parts for passenger cars and commercial vehicles. Rhiag has operations in Italy, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Poland and Spain. The transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2016 and is subject to customary closing conditions and necessary regulatory approvals.