Manager, Tax Reporting
About the role
The Clean Energy Tax Manager of Reporting and Analytics role at AES is focused on managing and reviewing the US federal and state income tax compliance for the Clean Energy renewable energy development and operational businesses. This role involves analyzing data critical to the business and its owners, supporting tax planning and business transactions, and engaging in quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting processes.
Responsibilities
- Manage the preparation and review of the Clean Energy US federal and state tax compliance process, providing quarterly information for investors and managing other information in accordance with ASC740.
- Assist with technical research and quantitative analysis for business and tax planning projects that optimize financial and cash taxes on existing and prospective company investments and consider their effects on the business and its owners.
- Support the quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting process, state and local clean energy grants and incentives, disallowed business interest, valuation allowance, outside basis, and uncertain tax positions of the Clean Energy business provided to its investors.
- Support transaction review and documentation processes, including various federal, state and local tax areas, including the review of financial models.
- Supervise and support the development of one direct report and serve as a mentor to more junior talent across the US Business Tax Team.
Qualifications
- A driven curiosity to learn and apply rapidly evolving and complex tax technical concepts with a business first mindset.
- Strong partnership tax technical and compliance expertise, and interest to further develop, through supporting M&A and renewable investment transactions in close partnership with business and tax peers, state tax exposure a plus.
- Experience with maintaining partner tax capital accounts, taxable income, outside tax basis and adjustments such as section 704(c) section 743, a plus.
- Strong management skills necessary to assure that all federal and state compliance is accurate and timely filed.
- Experience managing an outsource compliance provider and in-house team a plus.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skill necessary to assure that investor needs are met in a timely and accurate manner.
- Comfort coordinating and managing across tax teams in a shared knowledge environment, leveraging in-house tax expertise and influencing the quality and timing of inputs required from internal partners.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise judgement over complex issues in a fast-paced environment; comfort working with multiple simultaneous scenarios to drive optimized financial and cash tax outcomes.
- Exceptional communication skills; comfort articulating complex tax issues to management and non-tax audiences with minimal preparation.
- Experience reviewing M&A financial models; familiarity with tax equity Hypothetical Liquidation at Book Value (HLBV) computations and with advanced Excel skills, Power BI, and visualizations a plus.
- Exceptional self and project management skills with a demonstrated ability to manage evolving priorities in a dynamic work environment and willingness to step into a “do-er role” when needed.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree in accounting or tax, Master’s degree / CPA preferred.
- 5+ years of experience working on complex tax issues with a national accounting firm or a multi-national corporate tax department.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life insurance
- 401(k) eligibility
- Paid time off (including vacation, sick leave time, and parental leave)
Pay
The expected salary for this position, at commencement of employment, is between $134,000 and $168,300/year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Schedule
The position reports to the Senior Manager, US Tax Reporting & Analytics and will partner closely with other tax professionals of its owners.