Tax Manager

• Will this position have direct reports? :Yes
• Salary : $114,000 USD Annually - $140,000 USD Annually

About ETS:

ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories.

Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.

Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.

The Tax Manager supports the Enterprise Tax Service Group in completing monthly, quarterly, and year-end tax reporting and compliance requirements across ETS’s taxable and tax-exempt entities. The position is responsible for federal, state, and local income and franchise tax compliance for taxable subsidiaries, for exempt-organization compliance for the parent and affiliated exempt entities, and for oversight of U.S. indirect taxes.

The role prepares and reviews the annual and interim income tax provision under ASC 740, manages the compliance calendar across all filing types, responds to notices and audits, and applies tax technology and data tooling to simplify and accelerate recurring processes.

The role liaises with SBU and Corporate Finance, Legal, Treasury, Procurement, Supplier Management, Information Technology, and external auditors, and coordinates external advisors and co-sourcing providers to ensure accurate and timely filing across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage federal, state, and local income and franchise tax compliance for ETS’s taxable subsidiaries. Prepare or review the consolidated federal return, separate and combined state returns, apportionment schedules, estimated payments, and extensions, and maintain the supporting work papers.
• Manage exempt-organization compliance for the parent and affiliated exempt entities. Prepare or review Forms 990, 990-T with a separate Schedule A for each unrelated trade or business under Section 512(a)(6), and state charitable registration and UBIT filings, including required disclosures and attachments, filed electronically through IRS Modernized e‑File.
• Prepare and review the annual and interim income tax provision under ASC 740, including current and deferred computations, deferred tax inventory, valuation allowance analysis, uncertain tax positions, and the expanded rate reconciliation and income‑taxes‑paid. Support the external audit of the tax accounts.
• Provide oversight of U.S. indirect taxes — sales and use, gross receipts, and excise. Review returns prepared by external providers, monitor nexus and registration status, oversee exemption and resale certificate management, and review the configuration and output of the indirect tax determination logic in ETS’s enterprise systems.
• Manage tax accruals, budgets, forecasts, and cash tax projections, and maintain reconciliations among the provision, the general ledger, and filed…