Manager, Business Economic Incentives

Responsibilities

• Manage the Company’s multi-state business incentive compliance process, including calendars, data requests, recurring filings, contract performance requirements, internal approvals, and audit-ready support.
• Prepare and file required incentive compliance reports across multiple jurisdictions.
• Own the process for gathering, validating, reconciling, and analyzing data required for incentive compliance and benefit realization, including data from internal business partners and external advisors.
• Maintain the incentive portfolio database and source documentation, ensuring agreements, obligations, filing deadlines, benefit calculations, correspondence, and compliance status are complete, current, and well organized.
• Interpret incentive agreements and contract performance requirements to identify reporting obligations, data needs, deadlines, risk areas, and documentation requirements.
• Perform analytics and prepare benefit calculations, workpapers, reconciliations, and explanations needed to support filings and internal reporting.
• Review third party provider filings, workpapers, calculations, assumptions, and deliverables to ensure accuracy, completeness, and alignment with contract requirements.
• Cook up coordination with cross-functional stakeholders to obtain timely and accurate data, resolve data gaps, and escalate risks or delays that could impact compliance or benefit realization.
• Prepare clear summaries, dashboards, and leadership updates regarding compliance status, realized benefits, upcoming deadlines, open items, and risk areas.
• Support compliance audits, jurisdictional inquiries, and internal reviews by maintaining organized, defensible documentation and responding timely to information requests.
• Support tax, compliance, technology, and process-improvement initiatives as assigned.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Law, or a related discipline
• 5+ years of direct experience with state and local business incentives, credits, economic development programs, or related tax compliance
• Working knowledge of property tax and sales/use tax compliance, including how jurisdiction, location, entity, asset, exemption, revenue, payroll, and operational data may affect incentive compliance
• Firsthand experience preparing and filing multi-state incentive compliance reports, including recurring filings, contract performance requirements, supporting workpapers, benefit calculations, and audit support
• Strong project and process management skills, including the ability to organize complex deliverables, manage open items, and drive timely completion without direct authority over cross-functional partners
• Ability to identify issues, question assumptions, escalate risks, and drive timely resolution
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to prepare clear summaries for leadership and documentation for tax/compliance support
• Experience coordinating with external consultants, service providers, and cross-functional internal stakeholders
• Attention to detail, strong follow-through, and comfort working in a deadline-driven environment
• Alytyx and PowerPoint experience preferred
• CPA and/or CCIP designation a plus