Manager Corporate Tax

** Company :*
* Highmark Health

** Job Description :*
* ** JOB SUMMARY*
* The Manager, Corporate Tax manages the tax compliance function for Highmark Health, Allegheny Health Network (AHN), affiliated tax-exempt entities, and related partnerships, joint ventures, employee benefit plans, limited liability companies, trusts, and other structures. The role oversees the preparation and filing of Forms 990, 990-T, and other federal, state, and local filings, ensuring compliance with applicable requirements for tax-exempt organizations.

The Manager, Corporate Tax supervises tax compliance processes and staff, ensuring activities are completed accurately and on time and that positions taken are well supported and documented. This includes coordinating with external auditors and tax advisors, supporting audits and regulatory inquiries, and managing responses to tax notices.

In addition, the Manager, Corporate Tax evaluates business activities, investments, and joint venture arrangements to identify and address tax-exempt compliance considerations, including unrelated business income (UBIT) and protection of exempt status. The role partners with Finance, Legal, and operational leadership to communicate tax implications and support business initiatives. This position also coordinates the resolution of tax controversies and leads the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of tax processes, controls, and compliance procedures.

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* ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

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* 1.
Communicate effectively.  This position displays effective communication skills while performing the following functions:

+ Identify senior management's business objectives and identify tax strategies that will accomplish those objectives.

+  Coordinate activities, make recommendations, and support decisions to ensure projects that require tax planning services can proceed to a resolution as quickly as possible.

+ Defend existing tax strategies and positions against challenge or make appropriate and timely revisions to our tax positions when necessary.

+ Coordinate the communication, education and implementation on all tax matters associated with evaluating business opportunities.

2.
Manage the tax function for the Company and its Affiliates.

+ The Highmark Group must file a significant number of Federal, state and local returns, registrations, licenses and other filings.  The Manager is expected to independently make the majority of decisions regarding recurring matters of tax and regulatory compliance.  The incumbent must bring matters to the attention of the Director that have a major impact upon the tax liability of the company, that would impact corporate policy, or that would impact Highmark business strategies.  

However, the incumbent is expected to provide a detailed analysis of the business alternatives, the impacts of the alternatives, and a recommendation as to the best alternative.  The Manager must integrate tax, statutory and GAAP knowledge bases in directing the Corporate Tax Department functions.

+ his includes thousands of documents covering many different types of taxes (income, excise, sales and use, capital stock/franchise, property, international, business privilege, etc.) and many different varieties of each of those taxes from many different jurisdictions (federal, all states, a wide range of municipalities and international).

+ Ensure the accurate calculation and preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual tax accruals for the financial statements of the Highmark Group

+ Research and integrate tax, statutory, and GAAP issues, to identify available alternatives, and to communicate the results.

3.
Ensure the Highmark Group's business transactions are structured to take advantage of opportunities and avoid the pitfalls inherent in tax law so that liability associated with all types of taxes is minimized.

+ This means continuous assessment of all current tax positions assigned by the Director, Corporate Tax, which involves staying abreast of legislation, regulations, rulings and court cases affecting all types of taxation in a wide range of U.S. tax jurisdictions and certain international jurisdictions.

4.
Coordinate the…