Global Transfer Pricing Operations Leader

WTW; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and Welfare benefits

Pension and 401(k)

Job summary

WTW seeks a seasoned leader to own and transform its global Operational Transfer Pricing function. You’ll govern forecasting, execution, and compliance, while driving data-driven improvement across intercompany arrangements and technology-enabled processes.

You will partner with business, finance, legal, and planning teams to ensure alignment with strategy, manage global filings, and lead a team focused on high-value analysis and automation. This role emphasizes innovation and strong governance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of transfer pricing experience, ideally with both Big Four advisory and large multinational in-house experience.
• Significant experience leading operational transfer pricing, reporting, forecasting, and global compliance processes in a complex multinational environment.
• Technical expertise across intercompany services, revenue-sharing arrangements, and other complex intercompany arrangements, with the judgment to own key positions and leverage specialist input where appropriate.
• Strong understanding of accounting, finance, and operational processes, including ERP systems, consolidation platforms, US GAAP principles, and journal entry processes.
• Proven ability to communicate complex transfer pricing concepts and analyses clearly, simply, and effectively to a range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated success driving transformation through technology, automation, data, and analytics, including modernization of processes, operating models, and controls in tax, finance, or other highly regulated environments.
• Strong commercial and strategic judgment, with the ability to balance technical, operational, and business considerations, prioritize competing demands, and focus resources on the highest-value activities.
• Exceptional leadership skills, with a proven ability to build high-performing teams, develop talent, delegate effectively, and leverage internal and external resources to deliver results.
• Effective stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to partner across functions, navigate complex global organizations, and drive alignment.

Responsibilities

• Lead WTW’s global Operational Transfer Pricing function, with responsibility for governance, execution, and continuous improvement of forecasting, execution, and compliance sub-functions.
• Partner with business, finance, legal, and other stakeholders to design, implement, and govern intercompany arrangements and transfer pricing solutions, ensuring alignment with commercial objectives, transfer pricing policies, compliance requirements, and operational execution.
• Lead the Group’s global transfer pricing compliance program, ensuring timely, accurate, and well-substantiated filings and supporting analyses across jurisdictions.
• Manage the delivery of the Group’s quarterly transfer pricing reporting and forecasting processes, ensuring accurate, consistent, and reliable financial outcomes.
• Partner with the Transfer Pricing Planning function to translate transfer pricing policies into scalable, technology-enabled processes and controls that are efficient, transparent, and compliant.
• Champion innovation and continuous improvement, challenging existing ways of working and implementing new capabilities that improve operational effectiveness, governance, and resilience.
• Establish and maintain a trusted, well-governed data environment that supports transfer pricing execution, compliance, reporting, forecasting, and decision-making through robust controls, data quality standards, and integrated technology platforms.
• Enable the team to focus on higher-value activities, including business partnering, strategic analysis, and insight generation, by reducing administrative and transactional workload through process simplification and automation.
• Lead, mentor and develop a talented team — building depth and resilience and creating real opportunities for people to step up.
• Work closely with the wider tax, planning, data and finance teams to bring the best capability into transfer pricing.

Skills

Transfer pricing

Operational leadership

Data & analytics

Automation

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Tools

ERP systems

Consolidation platforms

US GAAP

Job description

WTW seeks a seasoned leader to own and transform its global Operational Transfer Pricing function. You’ll govern forecasting, execution, and compliance, while driving data-driven improvement across intercompany arrangements and technology-enabled processes.

You will partner with business, finance, legal, and planning teams to ensure alignment with strategy, manage global filings, and lead a team focused on high-value analysis and automation. This role emphasizes innovation and strong governance.