State Tax Manager - Compliance

About the role

The State Tax Manager - Compliance role at Koch Industries is designed for a skilled and proactive tax professional who wants to contribute to a dynamic and innovative team. This position offers exposure to various tax capabilities and the opportunity to engage with different business units.

Responsibilities

• Manage the state income and franchise tax reporting process in partnership with the Senior Tax Manager - Reporting.
• Review state estimate and extension calculations and payments.
• Review state income franchise returns and workpapers.
• Cook up payment processing with Tax Support team and Treasury.
• Analyze tax liability drivers and changes from prior years.
• Ensure tax reporting reflects business realignments, asset sales, tax positions, and state tax attributes.
• Manage relationships with outside consultants.
• Participate in the state tax accounting process by reviewing support for the state effective tax rate, state deferreds, and state payable account.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement within the state tax organization, including using AI tools.
• Build and develop relationships across the tax organization and other Koch companies and manage and leverage data to optimize state processes and business tax positions.
• Develop state tax compliance knowledge and skills in team members.
• Manage complex processes and resources to accomplish our goal.
• Collaborate with other areas of the tax life cycle as appropriate.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in state tax compliance, including preparing and reviewing state and local income tax returns.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, project management skills and the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills.
• Strong understanding of state technical concepts such as nexus, conformity / modifications to federal tax provisions, apportionment, and tax reporting rules.
• Comprehensive understanding of state tax lifecycle (provision, compliance, planning and audit).

Qualifications

• Proficiency using OneSource Income Tax (OIT), Alteryx, PowerBI and Copilot.
• Experience in supporting state effective tax rates, state deferreds, and/or other elements of the state tax accounting processes.
• Prior experience developing and/or supervising team members.

Skills

• Ability to manage complex processes and resources to accomplish our goal.
• Ability to collaborate with other areas of the tax life cycle as appropriate.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• Life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement.
• Paid vacation/time off, educational assistance.
• Infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.