What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Mobility Tax Lead position at Koch?
Your Job
We are hiring a Global Mobility Tax Lead — a hands-on driver who resolves complex issues, develops technical points of view, and delivers measurable improvements across global compensation, payroll, and mobility tax compliance. This role combines deep technical expertise with operational ownership and cross-functional influence.
You will own daily payroll and mobility tax operations, coordinate external tax providers, and translate technical positions into practical operational solutions. Your work will reduce risk, scale process efficiency, and enable the mobility of our global workforce.
Our Team
Koch’s Global Mobility leveraged capability provides domestic and international relocation assistance, tax and immigration consulting, and Global Mobility strategic advice to support business’ needs. Our team of 20 members have presence in APAC, EMEA and Americas and provides Global Mobility assistance to all Koch companies.
What You Will Do
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
Koch 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 about 120,000 employees across the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
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. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
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. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
We are hiring a Global Mobility Tax Lead — a hands-on driver who resolves complex issues, develops technical points of view, and delivers measurable improvements across global compensation, payroll, and mobility tax compliance. This role combines deep technical expertise with operational ownership and cross-functional influence.
You will own daily payroll and mobility tax operations, coordinate external tax providers, and translate technical positions into practical operational solutions. Your work will reduce risk, scale process efficiency, and enable the mobility of our global workforce.
Our Team
Koch’s Global Mobility leveraged capability provides domestic and international relocation assistance, tax and immigration consulting, and Global Mobility strategic advice to support business’ needs. Our team of 20 members have presence in APAC, EMEA and Americas and provides Global Mobility assistance to all Koch companies.
What You Will Do
- Lead day-to-day global mobility compensation, payroll, and tax activities and act as the escalation point for complex technical issues.
- Manage coordination and deliverables with external tax providers to meet filing deadlines and quality standards.
- Ensure accuracy of mobility-related payroll and compensation data; reconcile issues and drive remediation.
- Research and develop technical tax positions; communicate recommendations to stakeholders.
- Drive process improvements and automation to reduce manual effort and increase reliability.
- Monitor KPIs, support audit readiness, and coach/mentor junior team members.
- Leads cross-functional coordination with Tax, Legal, Compliance, and Payroll to drive consistent global mobility practices across jurisdictions.
- 5 years’ focused experience in global mobility / international payroll tax within a multinational employer or Big Four advisory.
- Demonstrated experience managing external vendors/advisors and coordinating cross-functional stakeholders.
- Clear, persuasive communicator with a track record of driving issues to resolution.
- Ability to convert technical tax topics into executable operational steps for non-tax stakeholders.
- Comfortable working across multiple time zones and with geographically distributed teams.
- Advanced degree or tax credential (CPA, EA, JD) preferred.
- Strong skills in data analysis and reporting, with the ability to leverage analytics to drive decision-making and process improvements.
- Background in environments undergoing rapid growth or significant transformation, where adaptability and innovation are key.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
Koch 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 about 120,000 employees across the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
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. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
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. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
Salary : $100,000 - $150,000