Corporate Tax Manager

Job Summary

Manages corporate tax reporting, planning, compliance, and payment functions, including corporate income/franchise, sales, property, and various excise taxes.  Optimizes corporate structures, methods, and processes to lawfully minimize corporate tax burden.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Carries out supervisory responsibilities including interviewing, hiring, training, and developing partners; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining partners; scheduling; addressing complaints; and resolving problems.
• Advises upper management regarding effects of business activities on taxes, identifying opportunities to minimize taxes where possible.
• Ensures timely and accurate filing of all federal, local, and state tax returns.
• Maintains up to date knowledge of tax laws and regulations, ensuring the organization remains compliant.
• Ensures compliance with applicable tax payments and informational reporting to government agencies.
• Represents the company before various taxing bodies on issues such as audits, inquiries, and disputes.
• Examines books, records, and applicable laws to compute taxes owed to government agencies.
• Collaborates with the Real Estate team to minimize property taxes through informal discussions, formal challenges, and/or arranging outside appraisals.
• Collaborates with Pricing and Information Technology departments to ensure proper sales tax collection on retail store products.
• Devises, installs, and/or supervises acquisition of software, programs, worksheets necessary to compute accurate and appropriate tax liabilities.
• Studies business and professional journals and attends seminars to stay current on developing trends in corporate tax methods.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of GAAP and IRC tax accounting principles. 
• Advanced knowledge of project, fixed asset, and tax accounting computer systems.
• Advanced knowledge of SAP reporting and transactional applications.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Access, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
• Advanced mathematical skills for calculating discounts, interest, and percentages.
• Ability to maintain a high level of accuracy and productivity.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality regarding sensitive information.
• Ability to prepare reports and business correspondence.
• Ability to research information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to communicate effectively in written and verbal form.
• Ability to comprehend and interpret information.
• Ability to learn new technology systems, methods, and processes.
• Ability to reason, form concepts and recognize and solve problems.
• Ability to show information in presentation or diagram form.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must be attentive to potential hazards and remedy or place appropriate warning signs or devices around or near the hazard as soon as is reasonably possible.
• Must report any potential hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.

Education, Experience, and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field from a four-year college or university and five to ten years related experience and/or training in the tax accounting field, with CPA credentials; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Partners must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy.

Physical Demands

• Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception or the ability to focus.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to use hands for reaching, touching or handling.
• Frequently required to use fine finger movements (ex. sorting and typing).
• Frequently required to sit for long periods of time.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 40 lbs.
• Occasionally required to bend, kneel or squat.
• Occasionally required to stand or walk.
• Attendance at work is required.

Work Context and Environment

• Work is generally performed in an office environment.
• Quiet to moderate noise level.