MANAGER - TAX

Job Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee the preparation, filing, and payment of all federal, state, and local tax returns.
• Ensure the timely filing of tax returns and responses to tax authority inquiries, notices, and ruling requests.
• Direct tax audits and negotiate tax-related matters with federal, state, and local agencies in coordination with legal counsel.
• Manage relationships with external tax consultants and advisors.
• Develop and implement tax strategies to optimize the Company's tax position and minimize risk.
• Oversee tax accounting, financial reporting, and tax account reconciliations in accordance with GAAP and the FERC Uniform System of Accounts.
• Prepare and review tax disclosures for internal and external financial reporting.
• Cook up coordination and support external financial statement audits, tax audits, and regulatory commission audits.
• Manage the regulatory aspects of tax accounting, reporting, and compliance.
• Develop and implement regulatory strategies related to tax matters.
• Direct the preparation and review of rate schedules, compliance filings, interrogatories, and legal briefs, and serve as an expert witness in regulatory proceedings, as required.
• Develop tax forecasts and projections, support the annual budgeting process, and analyze variances between actual and budgeted tax expenses.
• Continuously improve departmental processes, policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Afford leadership and oversight for employee performance management, compensation recommendations, disciplinary actions, and workforce planning.
• Identify and coordinate training and professional development opportunities to enhance employee knowledge and competencies.
• Monitor and evaluate changes in tax laws, regulations, and accounting standards to ensure ongoing compliance and identify potential impacts to the Company.
• Ensure compliance with all Company policies, procedures, Code of Ethics, and applicable governmental laws and regulations, including employment, safety, and environmental requirements.
• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

Job Qualifications

• Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate with or without reasonable accommodation that the essential functions of the job can be performed.
• Education: Bachelors- Accounting or Tax, advanced degree preferred; Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is required.
• Years Of Experience: 8 years of experience.
• Minimum Knowledge, Skills And Abilities: Experience in tax accounting, preferably with a regulated utility, public utility, or national/public accounting firm. Strong knowledge of federal, state, and local tax laws; tax accounting and financial reporting requirements; compliance standards; budgeting and forecasting practices; and supervisory principles. Minimum of three (3) years of experience leading, managing, and developing employees. Demonstrated ability to oversee the preparation, review, filing, and payment of complex federal, state, and local tax returns. Ability to manage monthly, quarterly, and annual tax compliance and reporting requirements while meeting established deadlines. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present and explain complex tax matters to management, regulators, auditors, and external stakeholders. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, management, regulatory agencies, external auditors, consultants, and other stakeholders. Ability to exercise sound judgment and maintain the highest level of confidentiality regarding sensitive financial, tax, and personnel matters. Proficiency in tax research, tax compliance software, and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.

About Us

El Paso Electric (EPE) is a regional energy provider that is engaged in generation, transmission, and distribution service to power approximately 460,000 customers in a 10,000-square mile area of the Rio Grande Valley in west Texas and southern New Mexico. We invite you to visit epelectric.com to learn more about EPE and our strategic initiatives. Join our EPE Team, and TOGETHER, we will transform the energy landscape.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals With Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).