Domestic Tax Manager

About the role

Clarios is seeking a Tax Manager to join its Domestic Tax team. Reporting to the Domestic Senior Tax Manager, the role will handle all aspects of Domestic Tax, including U.S. federal and state income tax compliance, quarterly tax provision support, state income tax planning, and tax controversy matters.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate the Domestic federal and state income tax compliance processes to ensure adherence to deadlines.
• Work with external tax service providers and other members of the Clarios tax team to plan, manage, review, and complete federal and state income tax filings.
• Ensure compliance positions are technically supportable and appropriately documented.
• Support the preparation and review of the quarterly and annual Domestic income tax provision computations.
• Serve as a key resource for federal and state tax controversy, including managing responses to taxing authority information requests and notices, supporting U.S. domestic tax audits, developing technical responses, coordinating with external advisors where appropriate, and supporting appeals of tax assessments.
• Drive process improvements and automation across the income tax filing process, including data collection, workpaper preparation, review workflows, documentation standards, return-to-provision processes, and compliance/provision data integration; enhance controls and repeatability across the end-to-end process.
• Understand the business and related tax matters and develop the ability to translate this knowledge into tax planning and forecasting, with particular focus on state income tax implications of business expansion, manufacturing footprint changes, legal entity changes, supply chain changes, and other operational developments.
• Research US domestic tax-related issues, and analyze the tax effects of proposed transactions, including reorganizations, acquisitions, and divestitures, draft supporting memoranda; provide technical analysis on federal and state income tax issues, including state filing positions, apportionment, nexus, income tax accounting implications, and relevant tax controversy positions.
• Monitor and evaluate tax legislation to identify its applicability to the company and articulate such application; stay current with income tax accounting requirements and developments.
• Aid in the development of less experienced tax team members and the Domestic tax team, as a function; help build technical capability, process discipline, and consistent documentation standards across the team.
• Support SOX compliance and documentation.

Required

• Minimum of 5 years of progressive responsibility in a US domestic tax role, with meaningful experience in federal and multi-state income tax compliance.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
• Strong technical competence of US Tax Compliance processes and tax accounting concepts under ASC 740, including the ability to connect compliance matters to the quarterly and annual tax provision.
• Experience in a Big 4 Public Accounting and multinational corporation is a plus.
• Experience with automation tools preferred (i.e., Excel Power Query, Alteryx, Microsoft Flows, or equivalent), including the ability to identify manual process steps that can be standardized or automated.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate) a plus, especially as applied to tax requesting, workflow tracking, data validation, or compliance process management.
• Experience with SAP, Sage FAS, and OneStream a plus.
• Ability to lead and work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment, including cross-functional coordination with Finance, Treasury, business operations, external advisors, and offshore support teams.
• Basic tax planning skills; strong research skills; ability to develop clear technical documentation supporting federal and state income tax positions.
• Developing leadership skills and demonstrated ownership of complex compliance, provision, or state tax workstreams.

Preferred

• CPA or equivalent preferred.
• MST or other advanced tax degree a plus.