State Tax Manager - Compliance

Are you a skilled and proactive tax professional looking to make your mark in a dynamic and challenging role? Koch Industries is seeking a State Tax Manager
- Compliance to join our innovative team of forward-thinking professionals. In this role, you will be exposed to a range of tax capabilities, including reporting, controversy, position management, process transformation, and business consulting. You will have the opportunity to explore data and pursue career advancement across a wide variety of opportunities. This position offers a unique chance to engage with our business units, gaining insights into their operations and working closely with leaders to develop innovative solutions.

The role can be based out of our Atlanta, GA, Plano, TX, or Wichita, KS offices.

Our Team

What You Will Do

• Manage the overall state income and franchise tax reporting process in partnership with the Senior Tax Manager
  - Reporting, including:
• Review state estimate and extension calculations and payments.
• Review state income franchise returns and work papers.
• Coordinate payment processing with Tax Support team and Treasury.
• Analyze tax liability drivers and changes from prior years.
• Ensure tax reporting reflects business realignments, asset sales, tax positions, and state tax attributes.
• Managing relationships with outside consultants.
• Participate in the state tax accounting process by reviewing support for the state effective tax rate, state deferreds, and state payable account.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement within the state tax organization, including using AI tools.
• Build and develop relationships across the tax organization and other Koch companies and manage and leverage data to optimize state processes and business tax positions.
• Develop state tax compliance knowledge and skills in team members.
• Ability to manage complex processes and resources to accomplish our goal.
• Ability to collaborate with other areas of the tax life cycle as appropriate.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 5+ years experience in state tax compliance, including preparing and reviewing state and local income tax returns
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, project management skills and the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills
• Strong understanding of state technical concepts such as nexus, conformity / modifications to federal tax provisions, apportionment, and tax reporting rules
• Comprehensive understanding of state tax lifecycle (provision, compliance, planning and audit)

What Will Put You Ahead

• Proficiency using One Source Income Tax (OIT), Alteryx, PowerBI and Copilot.
• Experience in supporting state effective tax rates, state deferreds, and/or other elements of the state tax accounting processes.
• Prior experience developing and/or supervising team members.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.

If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

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