Tax and Compliance Manager

Overview

Hybrid or Remote

Salary: $126K - $142K

The organization is seeking a Tax and Compliance Manager to lead internal corporate tax, indirect tax, and compliance functions. This role evaluates current tax workflows and external CPA arrangements, providing strategic recommendations to leadership on the optimal balance between in-house execution and outsourced support. As a primary subject matter expert, you will own key tax processes, collaborate across teams, and help ensure systems and compliance frameworks scale with company growth.

Reasonable Accommodations

To perform the job successfully, an individual must be able to perform essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help qualified individuals with disabilities perform essential functions.

Responsibilities

Corporate Tax

• Assess current corporate tax workflows and evaluate external CPA arrangements to recommend opportunities to optimize costs, timing, and accuracy.
• Serve as primary internal subject matter expert for corporate income tax matters (primarily federal & state), with proactive planning for international expansion.
• Take ownership of preliminary tax calculations (e.g., quarterly estimates), tax payments, provision workpapers, and tax notices.
• Partner with the accounting team to optimize reporting frameworks to support tax reporting needs.
• Lead the R&D tax credit process, collaborating with reporting teams to establish internal tracking structures to maximize and substantiate claims efficiently.
• Monitor changing tax laws, corporate nexus, and optimization opportunities; communicate business impacts and actionable guidance to leadership.

Indirect Tax & Property Tax

• Monitor and address domestic and international nexus requirements across existing operations and global expansion.
• Oversee sales tax, use tax, VAT, and property tax compliance, including taxability verification across jurisdictions, nexus, report reviews, exemption certificates, and transaction management.
• Collaborate with accounting and finance teams to ensure sales tax and VAT are accurately recorded and reconciled within financial systems.
• Research and resolve tax notices and inquiries, working with external advisors and tax authorities as needed.

Risk & Corporate Compliance

• Coordinate with legal to align tax registrations with corporate business registrations, state nexus notices, and foreign entity filings.
• Coordinate the company’s business insurance program in partnership with legal, including policy renewals, preparation of statement of values, and evaluation of coverage requirements.
• Prepare corporate transparency filings, including annual census reporting and newer regulatory mandates such as Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI).
• Partner with legal, sales, and procurement on information-sharing protocols and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. CPA license or Master’s in Taxation is highly preferred.
• 3–6 years of corporate tax experience (public accounting or a mix including in-house corporate work ideal).
• Strong technical understanding of corporate income tax, sales tax/VAT, and multi-state nexus rules.
• Ability to find facts, learn and apply new concepts, reporting requirements, and tax legislation.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability to translate complex tax regulations into plain, actionable language for non-tax colleagues and executive decision makers.
• High level of discretion and integrity; experience securely handling confidential financial records and sensitive company information.
• Experience working with modern ERP systems and automated sales tax software.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA license or Master’s in Taxation

Compensation & Benefits

Salary: $126K - $142K

Location

Hybrid or Remote