Securing a Top Tax Executive for a Leading Global Investment Bank

The Client

One of the world’s leading global investment banking institutions providing strategic, financial, and tactical advice to a global institutional client base retained Boyden’s Executive Search team to hire a Tax Executive to support a dynamic tax program and evolving partnership structure supporting corporate and partnership tax compliance obligations worldwide.  The Tax Executive need was identified to support the Global Head of Tax by managing all aspects of the tax compliance process across a complex partnership structure globally.

The Challenge 

Boyden’s Executive Search Team was retained by our client to deliver a Tax Executive with deep knowledge across US consolidation and foreign subsidiaries, K-1s/K-3s, and other investor tax reporting, experience implementing new tax policies, and strong business acumen to help lead the global tax program for an operating partnership.  This high demand tax professional required tremendous persistence and resourcefulness on behalf of our executive search team. Throughout the search process, Boyden relied heavily on sector expertise and deep-rooted relationships throughout the financial services partnership tax industry.  

The Solution

Leveraging a strong track record within the corporate tax and accounting sector,  our executive search team managed to successfully identify and develop a strong candidate pool from public accounting and private industry of high performing partnership tax leaders.  This particularly challenging search required a mix of credibility, precise candidate identification, and patience to drive to completion.  The Tax Executive position was unfilled for almost 1 year before Boyden’s Executive Search team took over completing the assignment in 90 days.  

The Result

After a rigorous identification and qualification process, Boyden managed to navigate a highly competitive market environment to deliver a highly qualified and top-rated Tax Executive from one of the Big Four Accounting firms.   This candidate brought a mix of technical tax expertise, collaboration and excellent leadership qualities to the global tax function.