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1.: Manager of Tax - Secaucus, NJ From: Abby Kohut

2.: Manager - Tech Services (DBA's/Middleware) Oracle - Messaging - Marl From: Gary Wright - Wright Associates

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1.: Manager of Tax - Secaucus, NJ

Posted by: "Abby Kohut" abbykohut@yahoo.com abbykohut

Sun Jun 13, 2010 5:56 am (PDT)

Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) is the world's largest publisher
and distributor of children's books and a leader in educational
technology and children's media. Scholastic creates quality educational
and entertaining materials and products for use in school and at home,
including children's books, magazines, technology-based products,
teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys. The
Company distributes its products and services through a variety of
channels, including proprietary school-based book clubs and
school-based book fairs, retail stores, schools, libraries, television
networks and the Company's Internet Site, www.scholastic.com.

Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing and
media company, has a corporate mission of instilling the love of
reading and learning for lifelong pleasure in all children.
Recognizing that literacy is the cornerstone of a child's
intellectual, personal and cultural growth, for more than 80 years,
Scholastic has created quality products and services that educate,
entertain and motivate children. For more information, please visit our
website at: www.scholastic.com

Scholastic is searching for a Manager of Tax, who will be the
primary leader for implementation of tax strategies and measurement of
corresponding cash tax and effective tax rate (ETR) impacts of cross border
transactions among Non-US taxing jurisdictions as well as cross border
transactions among US state and local taxing jurisdictions.

The position requires routine
interaction with business management, accounting personnel, and external
auditors.

Specific responsibilities include:

· Fundamental
understanding of Non-US permanent establishment and US nexus rules.
· Tracking
of Non – US legal entity structure from local financials to local tax return,
conversion to US GAAP, reconciliation to US SEC consolidation, and finally
reconciliation to US tax return requirements (ie. F5471, etc.)
· Non-US
legal entity earnings and profits (E&P)
· Tax and
legal entity planning for Non-US jurisdictions
· Tax
and legal entity planning for US state and local jurisdictions
· State
and local effective tax rate
· State
and local cash tax estimates
· State
and local income tax audits
· FIN 48
for state income tax exposures
· FAS 5
for non-income tax exposures
· Technology
implementation (ie. State and local apportionment, tax planning)

Position requirements:

· Masters
in Taxation, Law Degree or Certified Public Accountant
· 2+
years public accounting (big 4) experience
· 8+
years tax experience
· fortune
500 experience
· strong
leadership abilities
· strong
interpersonal skills

For more information and to apply, please visit the Scholastic website: www.Scholastic.com and search for req # NY5927

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2.: Manager - Tech Services (DBA's/Middleware) Oracle - Messaging - Marl

Posted by: "Gary Wright - Wright Associates" gary_wright@verizon.net wrightassociates

Sun Jun 13, 2010 7:49 am (PDT)

Please feel free to refer this position to other groups and people you know.

Position Title – WR717391

Manager – Tech Services (DBA's/Middleware) Oracle – Messaging - Marlboro, MA
Area – Excellent $$

Excellent Compensation Package – Base + Bonus + PS

Relo possible for exceptionally strong matches - No Sponsorship

Company

Large, successful, and growing Boston based Investment Management Firm –
Great Company – Lots of Upside – Excellent Compensation Package – Bonus –
Profit Sharing etc. Join a team oriented, collaborative, results focused
environment and become part of an elite organization with great growth
possibilities.

Position Responsibilities – Summary

This individual, as part of the Enterprise Technical Services management
team will manage the Applications Services support team that provides 24X7
production support services for our Database and Middleware infrastructure.
The right candidate should have extensive managerial and technical
experience with the ability to support a global multi-vendor and
cross-technology production environment with strong leadership, crisis
resolution, team management, communication, analytical and decision making
skills.

Key Responsibilities;

· Providing vision, direction, and definition of team activities and
priorities, on the projects and activities for the Applications Services
team. Ensuring all level 1 and level 2 support responsibilities are met by
the team in a timely and efficient manner 24x7.
· This role will provide operations planning leadership for the IS
organization bridging the gap between plan, build and operate with respect
to new platforms. This includes interacting with all IS teams to coordinate
project activities and support issues. This also includes communicating
issues and status in the form of dashboards, briefings, and presentations.
· This role will provide operations planning leadership for the IS
organization bridging the gap between plan, build and operate with respect
to new platforms. This includes interacting with all IS teams to coordinate
project activities and support issues. This also includes communicating
issues and status in the form of dashboards, briefings, and presentations.
· This role will maintain inventory of all software and hardware
versions use in the enterprise within a CMDB. This includes documenting
current version in use, current version in General Availability and making
sure licensing is accurate and up-to-date currently, annually and trued up.
· Overseeing the implementation of standard configuration(s) and
best practices to meet the organizational high availability objectives for
all the platforms the Production Support team supports.
· Defining and implementing standards deployments, patches, fixes
for all platforms the Applications Services team supports.
· Mentoring staff members on professional development. Establishing
Personal Development Plans, Performance Reviews, managing workload, defining
and clarifying priorities, and providing technical direction on tasks.
· Making sure all key environments are monitored properly by Network
Operations Center and trended properly by the Capacity Workgroup.
Keys to This Position:
1. Management: Seeking very strong Technical Management skills. This
individual will lead a team of approximately 30 (½perm, ½ consultants- both
on and offshore).
2. Technical: This individual will be responsible for 4 Technical Areas
(1) Oracle DBA environment, (2) Middleware - Weblogic, Websphere, JMS
security and messaging, etc. (3) Operational Planning and (4) HW/SW
maintenance. The Oracle DBA area is most important in terms of the
background of the candidate.
3. This position has both Production Support and Engineering
responsibilities.
Required Skills and Competencies:
· 10+ years experience as a technical manager supporting global 24x7
support teams with distributed multi-server/multi-location environments.
· Previous experience managing a team of 30+ resources
· 4 year accredited degree
· Experience in leading, delegation and also having the technical
expertise to get "hand-on" involved as/when the need arises.
· 10+ years experience as an Oracle Database Administrator
supporting enterprise class Oracle database environments.
· - Oracle RAC, Production 10 & 11G experience, PL/ SQL performance
tuning
· - Database internals -- query processing, indexing, access
methods, caching, transaction processing, replication, backup/restore,
storage
· - Fundamental understanding of Data Guard, Flashback (table /
version query), Data Pump, ASM and OEM 10g
· Hands-on experience in environments with the following
technologies:
· - J2EE/Java, J2EE application servers (Weblogic, Apache/Tomcat,
Oracle), Webserver (iplanet, Apache) and .NET (SharePoint/IIS) platforms
· - Unix OS (Solaris/Linux) and Wintel fundamentals, clustering/High
Availability (HA) and disaster recovery
· - Java/JMS security and messaging (Websphere MQ, MQSI message
broker and ActiveMQ)
· - Document management (Documentum)
· - High performance distributed computing on Grid/Cloud
· - Virtualization (VMWare for Linux/Windows), data
replication/abstraction solutions, Oracle/SQL databases, HA with Veritas
foundation suite and Oracle RAC.
· Ability to function/lead autonomously in a collaborative culture
with focus on business outcome(s), impact to the firm and client service
orientation
· A personal style, commitment and communication ability that allows
you to partner with IS peers and teams to work productively and efficiently.
· Strong delivery/operations leadership, motivation to take on and
lead new initiatives and willingness to learn and grow self (in areas of
technical and management skills)
· Good understanding of the financial services industry, business
priorities/workflow and it's associated IT infrastructure, system and
application needs
· Prior experience with designing, staffing and operationalizing a
Network Operations center (NOC) will be a plus

Contact Information

Send Resume in Word format only to:

Gary Wright - President – Wright Associates

Phone - (508) 761-6354 - Email - replywrightassociates@verizon.net - WEB
Site – www.wrightassociates.org

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