Tax Manager

**Title**: Tax Manager

**Job Type**:Full time

**Location: Remote (North America)**

**Reports to**_:_** Controller**

**The Role**:
Work with external tax service provider to manage tax for an acquisitive multinational company specializing in consumer insights, advisory services, and data and analytics.

**The Impact**:
The person in this position will manage all aspects of tax for the company. They will work closely with the company's external tax service provider (both in the US and in foreign countries) to ensure that all tax matters are addressed appropriately and timely, and to advise senior management on tax matters (such as new law changes, or as it relates to acquisition targets, etc.)

**Responsibilities**:

- Oversee and review externally prepared year-end income tax provision to ensure accordance with ASC 740. Determine which portions can be prepared in-house in future
- Prepare quarterly estimated tax provisions for bank reporting purposes
- Prepare estimates of cash tax payments to be made in future quarters
- Work with external tax service provider to review and/or prepare:

- Federal, state and foreign (Canada, China, Japan, Germany) income tax returns, quarterly estimates, and extensions, including gathering and calculating taxable income and other related tax adjustments and disclosures, and assist with reconciliation of tax-related GL accounts as necessary
- Sales and use tax returns, including reconciling company data to filings (ensuring balances reflected in the GL are appropriate)
- Partnership reporting and shareholder K1s
- Manage tax audits and respond to federal and state agencies inquiries and tax notices
- Perform research on various tax issues, including federal and state income taxes as well as sales and use, property, and excise taxes
- Assist with due diligence on acquisition targets, and post-acquisition nexus determination
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of ongoing global filings
- Identify, research, and communicate tax legislative developments and credits and incentives and work collaboratively with external tax advisors to implement relevant tax planning strategies
- Collaborate with Accounting team to ensure intercompany balances are managed/cleared at appropriate intervals in order to avoid negative tax ramifications
- Assist in maintaining internal controls and record retention policies to comply with SOX and government regulations
- Negotiate fees with external tax service provider, and determine if certain tasks currently performed by external service provider can be more-efficiently performed in-house
- Determine what is critical and what is not in order to focus time/effort/resources on most important things
- Work closely with members of the Accounting team, and communicate well

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, CPA preferred
- 5+ years of recent public accounting experience or currently working for multi-national corporate tax department
- Experience in a multinational company with revenue in excess of $100M
- Experience with sales and use tax determination and filing
- Strong USGAAP/ ASC 740 accounting background
- Capacity to manage multiple complex activities at a high level of accuracy
- Strong technical research skills with the ability to understand, communicate and address technical matters as they relate to the Company's business

**Our Hiring Manager says**:
This position will own tax for the company. This doesn't mean _doing_ everything, but instead making sure all tax-related tasks get done timely and accurately. This means working with external tax service providers to ensure tax compliance obligations are met, working with internal team members to obtain and provide information to external tax service providers and others, ensuring tax-related risks are identified and addressed, assisting in due diligence for acquisitions, evaluating how changes in tax law will affect the company, etc. To be clear, this is an active role where you manage and act (not a passive role where you wait for things to come to you), and this role currently has no direct reports. You don't have to have expertise in all tax matters in all tax jurisdictions, but rather be able to get to the right answers and steps using available internal and external resources - you will be working hand-in-glove with our external tax service provider in order to accomplish these tasks, as you will be managing them. You can drive improvements in the company related to how tax is managed.

**J.D. Power** is a global leader in consumer insights, advisory services and data and analytics. A pioneer in the use of big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic modeling capabilities to understand consumer behavior, J.D. Power has been delivering incisive industry intelligence on customer interactions with brands and products for more than 50 years. The world's leading businesses across major industries rely on J.D. Power to guide their customer-facing strategies.

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