Tax Manager - Indirect

The Tax Manager is a hands-on, working manager responsible for performing and overseeing key aspects of the Company’s state and local tax functions related to Accounts Payable transactions, with a primary focus on sales and use tax compliance, transaction review, taxability research, audits, and related accounting activities. This position combines direct involvement in day-to-day tax activities with responsibility for providing technical guidance, reviewing work, developing team capabilities, and strengthening tax processes and controls.

The Tax Manager applies strong tax knowledge and independent judgment to analyze transactions, research and resolve complex tax matters, identify potential tax risks and savings opportunities, and provide practical guidance to internal stakeholders. The position remains actively involved in compliance, audits, research, and process improvement while providing day-to-day leadership, training, and support to the Tax team and branches. The Tax Manager also partners with cross-functional teams to improve tax processes, systems, controls, and data quality.

• Transaction & Risk Review: Perform and oversee reviews of invoices, contracts, purchasing documentation, exception reports, and related data to identify potential tax exposure, over payments, exemptions, coding issues, and documentation requirements. Research and resolve issues and elevate significant risks as appropriate.
• Taxability Review, Research & Training: Research, analyze, and provide guidance regarding state and local tax treatment of procurement expenditures across a variety of business activities. Develop and maintain practical tax resources, including procedures, taxability matrices, coding guides, checklists, process maps, FAQs, and training materials. Utilize authoritative sources and approved technology, including responsible use of AI-assisted research tools with appropriate validation. Maintain clear documentation of tax decisions and supporting authority.
• Tax Compliance & Accounting: Perform and oversee assigned activities related to the multistate sales and use tax process, including transaction review, accruals, filings, reconciliations, journal entries, reporting, and maintenance of accurate records and supporting documentation. Review work as appropriate to ensure accuracy, completeness, and timely completion.
• Processes, Controls & Documentation: Perform and oversee recurring review processes and lead the development and maintenance of sustainable policies, procedures, workflows, controls, issue tracking, and documentation standards. Identify recurring issues and implement practical solutions designed to improve accuracy, strengthen controls, and support audit readiness.
• Audit Management & Support: Actively participate in and manage assigned state and local tax audits and other tax matters. Research audit issues, prepare and review documentation and information requests, support Company tax positions, track deadlines, communicate with internal and external stakeholders, and elevate significant tax risks as appropriate.
• Tax Technology & Process Improvement: Partner with Accounts Payable, Procurement, IT, Operations, and other teams to improve SAP, Vertex, data quality, coding practices, reporting, and related tax processes. Remain actively involved in identifying process improvements, defining requirements, testing, implementation, documentation, and user training associated with system and process changes.
• Business Partnership & Communication: Serve as a hands-on tax resource to internal stakeholders by providing practical tax and coding guidance and assisting with resolution of tax-related issues. Communicate with vendors regarding tax treatment, invoices, exemption certificates, credits, refunds, and supporting documentation. Coordinate with external advisors, technology providers, auditors, and taxing authorities as appropriate.
• Cross-Training & Continuity: Provide day-to-day technical guidance, coaching training, and support to Tax team members and internal stakeholders while maintaining direct responsibility for assigned tax activities. Review work as appropriate, establish priorities, promote knowledge sharing, and maintain effective cross-training and backup coverage for critical responsibilities.
• Tax Savings & Recovery Opportunities: Proactively identify, research, and pursue available exemptions, credits, incentives, refunds, and over payment-recovery opportunities, including applicable…