Sr Manager - U.S. Tax Compliance

Sr. Manager Of U.S. Tax Compliance

The Sr. Manager of U.S. Tax Compliance leads the wing-to-wing U.S. tax compliance function for a complex, approximately $20 billion multinational corporation. The role is accountable for the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, controls, and continuous improvement of federal, state and local, international information reporting, property tax, excise tax, and information-reporting obligations. The Sr. Manager oversees one direct report and directs a co-sourced accounting firm team, serves as the principal internal owner of the U.S. compliance calendar and ONESOURCE Income Tax (OIT) environment, and provides review and technical input for selected U.S. income tax accounting calculations.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Enterprise compliance leadership:
  Own the annual and quarterly U.S. tax compliance cycle, operating model, governance, risk assessment, calendar, milestones, resource plan, and executive reporting for a complex multinational enterprise.
• Federal income tax:
  Direct preparation, technical review, approval, extension, electronic filing, and documentation of the consolidated federal income tax return and related forms, elections, disclosures, statements, work papers, and supporting calculations through a co-sourcing relationship with a Big 4 firm.
• State and local income tax:
  Oversee outsourcing arrangement of multistate income and franchise tax returns, combined and separate-company filings, apportionment, state modifications, estimated payments, extensions, notices, account reconciliations, and jurisdictional positions.
• U.S. international compliance:
  Coordinates with co-sourced accounting firm team and internal U.S. International Tax team on the preparation and review of U.S. reporting for foreign corporations, partnerships, branches, and cross-border transactions, including Forms 5471 and 8865 and related schedules, disclosures, elections, E&P, basis, tax-pool, and other supporting work papers.
• Specialty and information reporting:
  Oversee outsourced U.S. property tax filings and payments and in-house prepared federal excise tax compliance, including Form 720, Forms 1099, Forms 1042 and 1042-S, associated withholding, remittance, reconciliations, corrections, extensions, and documentation.
• Tax payments and cash forecasting:
  Own federal, state, local, property, excise, and withholding tax payment processes, including estimated tax calculations, extensions, payment approvals, cash-tax forecasts, due-date controls, and confirmation of settlement.
• Data and work papers:
  Establish clear data requirements, coordinate inputs from controllership, treasury, legal, payroll, accounts payable, business finance, and international tax teams, and ensure complete audit-ready work papers, return-to-provision reconciliations, and documentation of material judgments.
• ONESOURCE Income Tax:
  Serve as business owner for OIT compliance processes, including tax-return setup, entity and jurisdiction maintenance, trial-balance mapping, calculations, data imports, e-filing, user access, release testing, issue resolution, and process standardization.
• Co-sourcing and team leadership:
  Lead and develop one direct report and manage the co-sourced accounting firm through defined scope, deliverables, service levels, staffing plans, budgets, review protocols, issue escalation, knowledge transfer, and performance against deadlines and quality standards.
• Controls and compliance quality:
  Maintain effective review, approval, access, change-management, reconciliation, and filing controls; preserve evidence of control performance; identify and remediate deficiencies; and support internal audit, external audit, and SOX requirements.
• Tax accounting support:
  Provide technical input and review for selected U.S. income tax accounting calculations, including current tax expense, payable and receivable balances, return-to-provision adjustments, uncertain tax positions, state tax calculations, and relevant international components; coordinate with the tax accounting team on data, assumptions, and close deadlines.
• Audits, notices, and controversy support:
  Coordinate and prepare responses to tax authority notices, information requests, account discrepancies, and examinations; preserve supporting documentation and ensure compliance positions are consistent across returns, provisions, and controversy matters.
• Legislative and business change:
  Monitor tax-law, form, and filing developments; assess impacts on processes, systems, cash taxes, and controls; and integrate acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, and legal-entity changes into the compliance framework.
• Process improvement:
  Lead automation, standardization, and risk-reduction initiatives; define metrics for timeliness, quality, rework, cycle time, and cost; and communicate status, exposures, decisions, and resource needs to senior tax leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or a related field from an accredited institution.
• At least 10…