Tax Manager- Corporate Tax

This newly created position will support the Director of Tax with all income tax matters (local, state, federal) for flow through entities (both Asplundh Tree Expert, LLC (ATE LLC) – partnership return, as well as Asplundh Tree Expert Holding Co – S corp return and parent of ATE LLC).  The ideal candidate will efficiently work with outside accounting firms, highlight and drive changes in systems and processes and support other projects and initiatives.

Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt

Pay: Salary

Benefits:

• Benefits Available and vary per position and location.

Are you a real go-getter looking for an amazing opportunity with a nationwide full-service utility contractor offering competitive wages and incredible benefits? Keep reading because this job might be for you!

Since 1928, Asplundh has been dedicated to safe, efficient, and innovative line clearance services for the utility industry. Reliable, uninterrupted power is an important service provided by the world's electrical utilities and Asplundh has the expertise to help keep the power flowing. Over the years, diversification has opened vegetation management services to other specialized markets such as municipalities, railroads, pipelines, helicopter vegetation services, and departments of transportation.

A family-owned and operated corporation headquartered near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Asplundh has grown to employ over 33,000 service professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Support and assist in year-end compliance work with outside firms and assist in timely completion of all filings.
• Calculate, review and execute quarterly tax distributions to the LLC members as well as Holdco shareholders. Calculation and remittance of Non Resident withholdings and Entity level taxes on a quarterly basis.
• Coordinate Tax Depreciation and Tax Gain with outside advisors, including 704b calculations.
• Interact and address questions from tax advisors for Holdco shareholders
• Ensure the income tax provision and deferred tax asset/liability is properly stated
• Assist with year-end financial statement audits as well as any corporate tax audits including international.
• Calculate State and Provincial tax apportionment for Domestic and Foreign filings.
• Coordinate Shareholder and Member composite tax elections.
• Interact with international accountants as needed regarding provisions, FIN 48 items, etc.
• Assist with ad hoc reporting and special projects
• Assist in due diligence for acquisition opportunities as well as assisting with the integration of acquired entities where applicable.
• Assist or lead special projects, including but not limited, to review of software implementation that will enable data insights and efficiencies.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting; MS in taxation preferred but not required.
• Eight or more years of progressive tax experience required. Ideal candidate has both public accounting and private industry experience.
• Experience with partnership and flow-through entities related to federal income tax and entity level taxes.
• Experience with Excel and Microsoft suite required. Experience with OneSource income tax preferred but not required
• Experience with state and local income tax.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, possess sound judgment with the ability to learn quickly while working in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Achieves far-reaching results through relationship building and effective influencing skills – does not rely on direct authority to achieve results.
• Gets things done; can juggle multiple issues and make sound decisions in a rapid-fire manner. Welcomes rigorous debate and is a sound conceptual thinker.
• Possesses strong convictions and intuitive capabilities with the self-confidence to act on his/her beliefs. Works with teams to solve business issues that are critical to the company.

Strategic thinker with the detail and process orientation to ensure successful execution of initiatives.

Pre-Screen

• Upon offer, employees may be required to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background, and/or MVR check.

Physical Requirements:

• Rarely: crawling, climbing on//off trucks, climbing poles, gripping, color vision, pushing, pulling, climbing ladders, balancing, lifting to 50 lbs.
• Occasionally: kneeling, squatting, sense of touch, manual; dexterity, lifting over 10 lbs. to 50 lbs., reaching, range of motion, lifting, carrying.
• Frequently: standing, walking, stooping, climbing stairs.
• Constantly: sitting, body twisting, speaking clearly, seeing distant, seeing, reading, hearing-speech range, depth perception, lifting up to 10 lbs.

Safety

Due to the inherently dangerous nature of the industry and requirements to work with or around hazardous equipment, employees must have sufficient eyesight to judge distance/coordination of equipment and tools, be able to maintain attention and concentration for extended periods, be able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather while completing work assignments, be able to wear personal protective equipment as necessary, be able to enter and exit a vehicle numerous times a day, have the endurance necessary to traverse various terrain, be capable of performing job duties throughout a standard 8- or 10-hour day, be able to communicate with others, read, write, and comprehend written/verbal job instructions and information, and communicate and handle conflict professionally.

• Able to identify job site hazards.
• Exhibits and carries out cognitive problem-solving skills.
• Able to read, comprehend, and visualize job build and all prints.
• Works near/around energized, hazardous parts and equipment.
• Exposed to traffic.
• Works around excessive noise from machines (bore drill, backhoe, trencher, mini excavator, bucket trucks, digger derricks, concrete saw, jackhammers).
• May be exposed to hot and cold environments, poisonous plants or reptiles, and stinging insects.

About Us:

As a full-service utility contractor, Asplundh performs tree pruning and removals, right-of-way clearing and maintenance, vegetation management with herbicides, and emergency storm work and logistical support. Asplundh is the parent company of UtiliCon Solutions whose subsidiaries provide overhead and underground line construction, planning and design, meter reading and AMR/AMI installation, electrical testing, and street lighting/traffic signal services. Asplundh also operates Rotor Blade Airborne Utilities Management, overhead electric distribution, and transmission lines using MD 500 helicopters.

Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.  Individuals with a disability who desire a reasonable accommodation should contact the ADA Coordinator at 1-800-248-8733, ext. 1339.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.