Tax Manager
financial_services_operations › Tax · M3 — M3 — Senior Manager · Management
Manages a team of tax professionals responsible for tax compliance, reporting, and planning activities.
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pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Manages a team of tax professionals responsible for tax compliance, reporting, and planning activities. At the Senior Manager (M3) level, the role owns multiple teams or a sub-function, multi-team execution and resourcing trade-offs, and drives sub-function outcomes. Manages managers and/or several teams.
What this level does
- Manages the department's tax compliance and provision operations, owning the budget for outside preparer fees and headcount for the function
- Oversees the quarterly and annual ASC 740 income tax provision, evaluating trends across jurisdictions for exposures and reserve adequacy
- Directs state and multi-state audits, responding to issues and IDRs and building initial audit defense positions
- Leads a team of professional tax accountants and may manage junior managers, balancing compliance deadlines against resource capacity
- Partners with corporate accounting and legal teams to compile supporting financial statements for regulatory inquiries
- Knowledge applied
- Evaluates diverse tax issues and trends across jurisdictions; applies provision and audit expertise to department-wide operations.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Addresses diverse compliance and provision issues; evaluates trends for exposure and reserve adequacy across the domestic footprint.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Leads the functional tax team and interfaces with legal, accounting, and regulatory bodies on audits.
- Typical experience
- 5–7+ yrs managing tax professionals and functional budgets.
Skills at this level
- ASC 740
- — Researches and interprets tax laws as they relate to the income tax provision, computing current and deferred tax, valuation allowances, and uncertain tax positions for financial reporting.
- Tax compliance and return preparation
- — Oversees preparation and filing of federal, state, local, and multi-state tax returns, ensuring accuracy across sales/use, gross receipts, property, and income tax obligations.
- Tax research
- — Investigates and interprets tax laws, regulations, and rulings across jurisdictions to inform filing positions and strategy, and communicates conclusions to stakeholders.
- Audit defense
- — Directs federal and state audits, responds to issues and IDRs, and builds defense strategies through technical analysis and creative problem solving before regulatory bodies.
- Tax planning and strategy
- — Develops and implements tax strategies aligned with corporate objectives, optimizing the effective tax rate and supporting capital management, M&A, and international growth.
- Transfer pricing
- — Maintains global transfer pricing policies and documentation, ensuring compliance with OECD guidelines, BEPS, and Pillar 2 across international entities.
- People management
- — Manages, coaches, and mentors tax teams of accountants and junior managers, the key pivot from individual contributor to leadership of the tax function.
- Communication/translation
- — Translates complex technical tax analyses into clear implications for the CFO, Audit Committee, Board, and non-tax stakeholders to enable informed decisions.
- Data management and automation
- — Collects, prepares, and blends tax data using rule-based logic to automate compliance and provision workflows, reducing manual return-preparation effort.
- U.S. GAAP
- — Applies U.S. generally accepted accounting principles to tax reporting, ensuring provision entries and disclosures conform to financial reporting standards.
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