Director of Tax

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

The goal of ABS is to provide support and assistance to Ankura’s client facing business groups. All of Ankura’s ABS groups work together to achieve a common goal, which is to create innovative solutions for our clients. Ankura Business Services (ABS) includes Finance, Legal, IT Services, Marketing and Communications, Real Estate, Conflict Check, Operations & Workplace Services (OWS), and the People Office.

Collaborative lateral thinking, hard-earned experience, expertise, and multidisciplinary capabilities drive results. Together, Ankura’s ABS groups work in harmony to Protect, Create, and Recover Value for our clients.

Our Accounting & Finance team culture is highly collaborative. We prioritize a continuous learning environment, focused on skill development and career growth. A successful candidate is someone with strong accounting knowledge, and a growth mindset, who is focused on innovation and process improvement. This role can be hybrid based from an Ankura office or potentially remote based. The ideal candidate is in the US Eastern zone but we are also open to Central time hours.

Ankura is a private equity-backed professional services firm with a growing domestic and international footprint. Our legal structure spans a partnership with disregarded entities alongside several corporations, and our tax obligations span US federal, state, and local jurisdictions along with a range of international jurisdictions. We are looking for a Director of Tax to lead our global tax function, oversee our tax advisors, and serve as a partner to the business, working closely with finance leadership, the firm’s partners, and the PE sponsor.

The role owns the full compliance cycle and directs the work performed by our external tax advisor. Success requires both hands‑on ownership of the function and enough technical depth in partnership and international taxation to review, challenge, and manage complex work prepared by others.

You will lead the firm’s tax function during a period of real growth and have direct influence on how partners are served and how the business scales internationally. You will work closely with senior leadership and a sophisticated PE sponsor, with real ownership of the function and the mandate to make it better.

Lead the tax function

• Own and continuously improve the firm’s tax strategy, controls, and processes across its US and international obligations.
• Lead and develop the tax team, setting priorities across a recurring monthly, quarterly, and annual compliance cycle.
• Own the tax filing calendar and payment calendar, maintain the tax payment sheets, and coordinate payments for all tax filings.
• Serve as the primary point of accountability for all tax matters, translating technical issues into clear guidance for the CFO, partners, and the PE sponsor.
• Maintain and scale the operating model as the firm grows organically and through acquisition.

Own income tax and partnership compliance

• Prepare and review US federal and state income tax work papers, along with income tax work papers for international jurisdictions.
• Prepare and review the partner listing and standing that supports the K-1 process, and coordinate federal and state extensions.
• Prepare and review the tax provision work papers and the return-to-provision (RTP) schedule.
• Prepare and review work papers supporting US and international financial statement audits.
• Coordinate information gathering and preparation of quarterly estimates, including sales apportionment schedules by project and by location, and work papers for state gross receipts taxes.

Own state, local, and indirect tax

• Prepare and review sales and use tax accruals and…