Infrastructure Tax Lead

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What it asks for · 7

• In-house tax experience at a hyperscaler, cloud provider, or large-scale datacenter operator
• Experience standing up and maintaining entity structures across multiple jurisdictions, including contemporaneous documentation and operationalizing with local finance, legal, and accounting teams
• Working fluency in cross-border withholding on intercompany and third-party financing, permanent establishment analysis, and debt-versus-equity characterization
• Track record of owning the integrated tax position across a portfolio of deals — not advising on one issue at a time, but carrying the thread across functions from term sheet to post-close
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a cross-functional coordinator: comfortable running point across Legal, Accounting, FP&A, and business teams without formal authority over any of them
• Exceptional written and verbal communication — able to translate complex tax positions into clear guidance for Infrastructure leadership and deal teams
• Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of building processes from scratch in a fast-moving environment

Also a plus

• 12+ years of tax experience with significant exposure to datacenter, tax planning, including meaningful international range
• Big 4 or law firm experience in a datacenter, or infrastructure tax practice
• JD strongly preferred; LL.M. in Taxation or MST a plus
• Hands-on transfer pricing experience for intercompany services or compute, including benchmarking and documentation
• Experience with the owner-operator transition: construction-period capitalization, placed-in-service timing disputes, property tax during buildout, and sales/use on construction inputs versus operating equipment
• Background in state and local incentives, economic development negotiation, or site selection tax — either as a dedicated practitioner or as a frequent collaborator
• Experience with non-US datacenter tax regimes and cross-border infrastructure structures
• Existing relationships with datacenter developers, tax counsel, or Big 4 infrastructure tax teams

What the job covers

• Serve as the embedded tax partner to Infrastructure team on deal intake: gather facts on site specs, counterparty structure, review and own commercial contracting for tax clauses; provide structure review and term-sheet input early enough to shape the deal
• Work with regional tax teams to create and operationalize datacenter entity structures across jurisdictions: entity formation, operationalization with local teams, contemporaneous documentation, withholding on cross-border financing, permanent establishment risk
• Partner with Incentives lead on state and local incentives, sales and use exemptions, property tax incentives, and site selection tax input; ensure incentive commitments and compliance obligations are reflected in the integrated tax position for each site
• Coordinate with Infrastructure Accounting and tax accounting team on lease-versus-purchase treatment, consolidation questions, capitalization policy, and book-tax differences across a range of deal structures
• Partner with transfer pricing on policy for the infrastructure footprint: intercompany compute pricing, benchmarking, and documentation that will withstand scrutiny as intercompany flows scale
• Partner with the tax provision team on quarterly impact of new structures and deferred tax positions; ensure there are no surprises between deal close and quarter close
• Build and maintain infrastructure tax playbooks, issue-spotting checklists, and internal processes so the function scales with deal volume rather than linearly with headcount

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Words the posting leans on

• tax24×
• infrastructure11×
• deal8×
• experience7×
• structures7×
• datacenter6×
• incentives6×
• accounting5×
• documentation4×
• infrastructure tax4×
• intercompany4×
• local4×
• partner4×
• site4×
• compute3×
• cross-border3×

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