Corporate Tax & Accounting Technical Manager
Position Summary
The Corporate Tax & Accounting Technical Manager will play a key role in supporting the Company’s U.S. tax compliance, tax accounting, external audit, and technical accounting activities.
This position will be responsible for managing and supporting a broad range of U.S. federal, state, and local tax matters, including corporate income tax, tax provision, sales and use tax, property tax, and payroll-related tax matters. In addition, the role will provide support for external financial statement audits and technical accounting matters, including revenue recognition and other complex accounting issues.
The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in U.S. corporate taxation with the ability and interest to work across tax, accounting, audit, and financial reporting matters. Experience with a Big Four or other public accounting firm is highly preferred; however, candidates with strong, well-rounded experience from a reputable regional or boutique CPA firm will also be considered.
This position requires a hands-on professional who can independently research technical issues, work effectively with external tax and audit advisors, coordinate with internal business functions, and provide practical, well-supported recommendations to management.
Key Responsibilities
1. Corporate Income Tax Compliance
- Manage and support U.S. federal, state, and local corporate income tax compliance activities.
- Coordinate preparation and review of federal and state corporate income tax returns, extensions, estimated tax payments, and related tax filings.
- Work with external tax advisors to ensure timely and accurate preparation and filing of tax returns.
- Review tax return workpapers, supporting schedules, book-to-tax adjustments, and tax calculations.
- Maintain tax calendars and monitor federal, state, and local filing requirements and deadlines.
- Research federal and state corporate tax issues and assess their potential impact on the Company.
- Support federal and state income tax audits, notices, information requests, and other tax authority inquiries.
- Identify opportunities to improve tax compliance processes, documentation, and internal controls.
2. Income Tax Provision / ASC 740
- Prepare and/or review quarterly and annual income tax provisions in accordance with ASC 740.
- Prepare and maintain current and deferred tax calculations, including deferred tax assets and liabilities.
- Analyze book-to-tax differences and maintain supporting schedules.
- Support effective tax rate analysis and tax provision reconciliations.
- Maintain tax basis and deferred tax schedules.
- Assist with valuation allowance assessments and other ASC 740 technical matters, as applicable.
- Support uncertain tax position analysis and related documentation, as applicable.
- Prepare tax provision workpapers and supporting documentation for external auditors.
- Coordinate with external auditors and tax advisors regarding tax provision review and audit requirements.
3. Sales & Use Tax
- Manage and support sales and use tax compliance across applicable U.S. jurisdictions.
- Review sales and purchasing transactions for proper tax treatment.
- Coordinate preparation and filing of sales and use tax returns.
- Research state and local sales and use tax rules, including exemptions and manufacturing-related tax issues.
- Maintain exemption certificates and related documentation.
- Assist with sales and use tax audits and information requests.
- Identify potential tax exposures, overpayments, refund opportunities, and process improvements.
4. Property Tax
- Coordinate preparation and filing of business personal property tax returns.
- Maintain property tax records and supporting documentation.
- Coordinate with internal fixed asset/accounting teams and external advisors regarding property tax assessments.
- Review property tax assessments and identify potential errors or opportunities for appeal.
- Support property tax audits, inquiries, and assessment challenges.
5. Payroll Tax Support
- Provide technical support for federal, state, and local payroll tax matters.
- Coordinate with Payroll, HR, Finance, and external payroll providers regarding payroll tax compliance issues.
- Research payroll tax requirements involving employee compensation, relocation, bonuses, benefits, and other compensation-related matters.
- Assist in resolving payroll tax notices, discrepancies, and jurisdictional issues.
- Support payroll tax audits and other tax authority inquiries, as necessary.
Audit & Financial Reporting Support
6. External Audit Support
- Serve as a key internal resource supporting the Company's annual and interim external financial statement audits.
- Coordinate with external auditors and internal departments to respond to audit requests and provide supporting documentation.
- Assist in preparing audit schedules, reconciliations, analyses, and supporting documentation.
- Review audit requests and identify potential accounting, tax, or documentation issues before submission to external auditors.
- Support management in resolving audit questions and technical accounting matters.
- Assist with financial statement and footnote support, as applicable.
- Help maintain audit-ready documentation and improve the efficiency of the Company's audit process.
Technical Accounting
7. Accounting Research & Technical Support
Provide technical accounting research and support for complex or non-routine transactions, including areas such as:
- Revenue recognition under ASC 606
- Contract accounting and contract modifications
- Variable consideration
- Customer incentives, rebates, credits, and other commercial arrangements
- Inventory and cost accounting matters
- Fixed assets and capitalization
- Leases under ASC 842
- Accruals and contingent liabilities
- Impairment considerations
- Intercompany transactions
- Foreign currency matters
- Other U.S. GAAP technical accounting issues
Research relevant U.S. GAAP guidance and prepare concise technical accounting memoranda documenting:
- Relevant facts
- Applicable accounting guidance
- Accounting analysis
- Conclusions
- Financial statement impact
- Recommended accounting treatment
Work with Accounting, Finance, Legal, Sales, Operations, and other business functions to understand transactions and determine appropriate accounting treatment.
Support external auditors in their review of significant accounting positions and technical accounting conclusions.
Internal Controls & Process Improvement
8. Tax and Accounting Controls
- Support the design, documentation, and improvement of tax and accounting processes and internal controls.
- Maintain appropriate documentation supporting tax positions, accounting conclusions, reconciliations, and financial reporting.
- Identify control gaps, compliance risks, and opportunities for process improvement.
- Assist with SOX/internal control activities, if applicable.
- Support development and maintenance of policies, procedures, and technical accounting documentation.
- Improve coordination among Tax, Accounting, Finance, Treasury, Payroll, HR, Legal, Sales, and Operations.
Tax Planning & Business Support
9. Tax Planning and Transaction Support
- Assist management in evaluating the tax implications of significant business transactions and operational decisions.
- Research tax issues associated with new business arrangements, contracts, investments, capital expenditures, and organizational changes.
- Assist with state and local tax planning and nexus analysis.
- Identify tax credits, incentives, exemptions, and other legitimate tax savings opportunities.
- Support tax due diligence and transaction-related tax analysis, as necessary.
- Monitor relevant changes in federal and state tax laws and communicate potential impacts to management.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Taxation, Finance, or a related field.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant U.S. tax experience, with meaningful hands-on experience in multiple areas of U.S. corporate taxation.
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. federal and state corporate income taxation.
- Practical experience with corporate income tax compliance and income tax provision / ASC 740.
- Experience in one or more additional tax areas, including:
- Sales & Use Tax
- Property Tax
- Payroll Tax
- State and Local Tax
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and general accounting principles.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to independently research tax and accounting issues and document conclusions.
- Strong Excel skills and ability to work with large amounts of financial data.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a corporate environment.
- Ability to work effectively with external tax advisors, auditors, and internal cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA license or CPA candidate strongly preferred.
- Master's degree in Taxation, Accounting, or a related discipline preferred.
- Experience with a Big Four accounting firm strongly preferred.
- Candidates with substantial, hands-on experience at a reputable regional or boutique CPA firm are also highly desirable, particularly where the candidate independently managed multiple corporate clients and complex tax/accounting matters.
- Experience performing or supporting financial statement audits is highly preferred.
- Combination of tax and audit experience is highly desirable.
- Experience researching and resolving technical accounting issues under U.S. GAAP.
- Experience with ASC 606 Revenue Recognition strongly preferred.
- Experience with ASC 740, ASC 842, inventory/cost accounting, or other complex accounting areas preferred.
- Experience preparing technical accounting or tax memoranda.
- Experience responding to IRS and state tax audits or examinations.
- Experience supporting external financial statement audits.
- Experience working in a manufacturing, automotive, battery, energy, technology, or other capital-intensive industry is preferred.
- Experience with multinational corporations and intercompany transactions is preferred.
- Familiarity with transfer pricing and international tax matters is a plus.
- Experience with ERP systems such as SAP and tax/accounting software is preferred.
- SOX/internal controls experience is a plus.
Core Competencies
The successful candidate should demonstrate:
Technical Depth
Strong foundation in U.S. corporate taxation with the ability to understand and research accounting and audit issues.
Hands-On Execution
Ability and willingness to perform detailed work directly rather than relying solely on external advisors or junior staff.
Professional Judgment
Ability to evaluate complex issues, identify risks, and develop practical and defensible recommendations.
Audit-Ready Documentation
Ability to prepare workpapers and technical documentation that can withstand review by external auditors, tax advisors, and tax authorities.
Cross-Functional Communication
Ability to translate complex tax and accounting matters into practical business guidance for non-tax professionals.
Ownership & Accountability
Ability to independently manage projects, deadlines, external advisors, and open issues through completion.
Risk Awareness
Ability to proactively identify potential tax, accounting, compliance, and financial reporting risks before they become significant issues.
Continuous Improvement
Ability to identify inefficient processes and implement more effective controls, procedures, and documentation.
Ideal Candidate Profile
The ideal candidate is not limited to traditional tax compliance work.
We are seeking a well-rounded accounting professional who has developed a strong foundation in U.S. corporate taxation and is capable of expanding across tax, external audit support, technical accounting, and financial reporting.
An especially strong candidate may have started his or her career in public accounting and developed experience across several areas, such as:
Corporate Tax → Tax Provision → Audit → Technical Accounting
or
Audit → Corporate Tax / ASC 740 → Technical Accounting
The successful candidate should be comfortable moving between detailed compliance work and complex technical analysis and should have the professional judgment to recognize when an issue requires additional research, external consultation, or management attention.
