Senior Manager, Tax – State & Local

Role Overview

• Provide strategic leadership and technical expertise for all state and local tax matters
• Oversee tax planning, compliance, accounting, audits, and controversy matters
• Identify opportunities to improve operational effectiveness, enhance automation, reduce tax expense, and support enterprise growth projects
• Partner with senior leadership in mergers and acquisitions, business expansion plans, and other projects
• Monitor and assess legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments and communicate implications to business leaders
• Identify and implement tax savings opportunities, incentives, credits, abatements, and expense efficiency initiatives
• Ensure timely, complete, and accurate tax compliance across all applicable jurisdictions
• Lead efforts to improve tax processes, controls, and governance frameworks
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on efficiency, standardization, and scalability
• Lead state tax provision calculations under both GAAP and statutory accounting requirements
• Develop controversy strategies that minimize financial exposure and protect company interests
• Collaborate across the enterprise to deliver tax insights that create measurable business value
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of seven direct reports responsible for various tax operations

Requirements

• CPA license preferred
• 8+ years of tax experience, specifically with state premium and sales and use tax, preferred
• Prior people management experience preferred
• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service
• Demonstrated experience reflecting agility, flexibility and problem-solving attributes
• Solid knowledge and understanding of GAAP and/or statutory accounting
• Demonstrated experience researching technical tax, accounting, or other business issues and developing business plans and strategies
• Demonstrated experience preparing or reviewing financial or accounting statement information or other required filings such as tax returns and tax payments
• Demonstrated experience managing tax or other financial audits conducted by external parties
• Demonstrated experience communicating highly technical or complex information.

Benefits

• comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits
• competitive 401(k) contribution
• pension plan
• annual incentive
• 9 paid holidays
• paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees)
• student loan repayment program
• paid-family leave