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Your Role

The Director, Tax Accounting leads enterprise tax strategy, compliance, and specialty accounting across the family of companies, ensuring accurate execution, regulatory compliance, and disciplined risk management. This role reports to the Vice President, Controller for Ascendiun and the family of companies. The role and team create enterprise value by turning complex tax requirements into disciplined execution, sound decisions, and continuity across critical tax processes.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

Set and lead enterprise-wide tax strategy, compliance operations, and the multi-year roadmap for the organization and its family of companies, defining priorities, funding, and governance to deliver accurate provision, compliance, and internal control outcomes while ensuring adherence to federal, state, and local tax requirements and enabling growth across expanding markets

Own enterprise tax risk management and executive decision support by assessing financial and tax impacts, ensuring timely and compliant corporate tax filings and other mandated tax-related information reporting, defining success metrics, and guiding business decisions across the family of companies to mitigate legal, financial, tax, and reputational exposure and deliver business-case outcomes in a highly regulated environment

Monitor federal, state, and local legislative and regulatory developments, assess potential impacts on the family of companies, and proactively communicate changes and recommended actions to leadership and impacted business units

Set the strategic tax roadmap for the enterprise, anticipating regulatory changes, identifying tax optimization opportunities, and aligning tax planning with long-term business objectives across the family of companies

Lead and oversee the enterprise interactions with federal, state, and local taxing authorities, ensuring timely, accurate, and well-supported responses to audits, inquiries, and regulatory communications while safeguarding the organization’s financial integrity, compliance posture, and reputation

Serve as the enterprise tax leader and cross-functional advisor to Finance, Legal, HR, Treasury, Operations, Payroll, and Technology by aligning stakeholders on complex regulatory and business matters, resolving escalations, securing commitments, and driving decisions that strengthen financial integrity, compliance, and business outcomes

Benchmark industry best practices and emerging technology with regards to tax filing for the family of companies

Translate opportunities into a prioritized transformation automation portfolio with defined ROI, risk reduction, and internal control improvements

Build, lead, and develop a high-performing tax team by recruiting top talent, providing coaching and mentorship, establishing clear performance expectations, and fostering a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and professional growth

Your Knowledge and Experience

Requires a Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Requires a minimum of 10 years prior relevant tax/accounting experience

Requires a minimum of 6 years of prior people management experience with direct responsibility for supervising, coaching, and evaluating direct reports

Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, or other related certification highly desired

Prior healthcare or insurance experience a plus

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week. Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.