Job Summary
The Tax Manager is a hands-on, individual-contributor role responsible for managing the company’s tax compliance processes and calendar. This person will prepare, review, and file returns in a consultative manner with external tax advisors using scalable and proactive processes and procedures. This is an ideal next step for a strong Senior Tax Associate ready to own a process from start to finish and take on a Manager-level title and scope of ownership, without the responsibility of supervising staff.
Location: Pittsburgh, PA reporting to the office on a hybrid schedule 3+ days per week in office.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end workflow for federal, multi-state, and local income tax compliance calendar, ensuring accurate and timely filings across all jurisdictions where the company has nexus
- Prepare and/or review corporate income tax returns, excise tax, quarterly estimates and payments, and extensions
- Manage and prepare the annual income tax provision process, including documentation, apportionment, and footnote disclosures for the financial audit
- Monitor state and local tax law changes and assess impact on the company’s multi-state filing obligations, apportionment, and nexus footprint
- Manage relationships with outside tax advisors including scoping work and reviewing deliverables
- Maintain and improve tax compliance workpapers, calendars, and internal controls/documentation
- Respond to and manage state and federal tax notices, audits, and inquiries
- Partner with Accounting/Finance on tax-related general ledger accounts, reconciliations, and reporting
- Lead the tax analysis and strategy as it relates to M&A
- Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy of the tax function
- Research technical tax issues and prepare clear, well-documented conclusions for both internal use and audit purposes
- Build the sales and use tax function from the ground up, complying with a variety of states across several legal entities
- Lead the filings for personal property tax returns across a lease portfolio of approximately 50 properties and several dozen jurisdictions
Skills/Abilities
- Ideally 5 years of progressive corporate tax experience, ideally including multi-state income tax compliance
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
- CPA certification (active or in progress) preferred.
- Strong technical knowledge of federal and multi-state corporate income tax rules
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage a full compliance cycle (not just support one)
- Strong organizational skills and comfort owning deadlines without supervisory backup
- Ability to research technical tax issues and clearly document conclusions
