Director, Tax

Location: Georgia | Hybrid

Working Model: 3 days per week onsite

Base Salary: $160,000 – $200,000

Annual Incentive: 30% target + additional holiday bonus

The Opportunity

A large, privately held U.S. manufacturing organization is seeking a Director of Tax to lead its domestic income tax accounting, compliance, planning, and transformation activities.

This is a highly visible leadership opportunity overseeing an experienced tax team and a complex multistate tax profile. The Director will partner closely with Finance, Legal, Accounting, business leadership, and external advisers to ensure the tax function supports the organization’s continued growth.

The role is particularly well suited to a broad corporate tax leader with deep provision and compliance experience who wants the opportunity to modernize an established tax function. Importantly, the position also offers meaningful succession potential into a more senior tax leadership role in the future.

Key Responsibilities

Tax Provision & Accounting

• Lead the income tax provision and related tax accounting activities, including calculations, journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
• Oversee the organization’s predominantly U.S.-focused tax provision process.
• Assess tax positions, risks, and opportunities and communicate conclusions to senior stakeholders.
• Partner with Accounting and Finance to ensure tax matters are appropriately reflected in financial reporting.

Income Tax Compliance

• Oversee federal, state, and multistate corporate income tax compliance.
• Manage a significant state filing footprint of approximately 200 income tax returns.
• Oversee tax compliance across a complex legal entity structure involving both partnership and consolidated corporate structures.
• Review internally prepared returns and workpapers to ensure accuracy and timely filing.
• Oversee nexus considerations and tax obligations resulting from acquired entities.
• Coordinate external providers supporting specialist tax compliance activities.

Tax Planning, Transactions & Risk

• Develop and implement tax planning strategies to improve efficiency while maintaining compliance.
• Advise leadership on federal, state, and relevant international tax developments.
• Support acquisitions, legal entity integrations, and strategic business initiatives.
• Review tax processes and transactions to identify risk, control improvements, and tax-saving opportunities.
• Collaborate with Finance, Legal, Accounting, and external advisers on broader corporate initiatives.

Tax Transformation & Technology

• Challenge legacy processes and identify more effective approaches to tax operations.
• Drive measurable improvements across compliance, provision, reporting, and governance.
• Identify opportunities to enhance existing Excel-based processes through automation, analytics, and AI.
• Benchmark tax processes against leading practices and implement practical improvements.

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a team of three experienced Senior Tax professionals.
• Provide technical direction, coaching, and performance management.
• Foster a collaborative, team-first culture focused on technical excellence and accountability.
• Support succession planning and development of existing team members.
• Manage departmental priorities, resources, and execution of strategic tax initiatives.

Candidate Profile

• Broad corporate income tax experience within a large, complex, multistate organization.
• Strong expertise across income tax provision and corporate tax compliance.
• Experience managing significant state income tax filing requirements and complex legal entity structures.
• Working knowledge of consolidated C corporation and partnership taxation.
• Proven experience leading and developing experienced tax professionals.
• Ability to provide technical oversight and strategic direction rather than operating primarily as a tax return preparer.
• Strong Excel capabilities with an interest in tax technology, automation, analytics, and AI.
• Exposure to acquisitions, legal entity integration, and M&A tax matters is beneficial.
• Experience with CorpTax or comparable corporate tax platforms is beneficial but not essential.
• Collaborative leadership style with a genuine commitment to coaching and developing others.

Tax Function Structure

The organization maintains significant tax capabilities internally, including:

• Federal and state income tax compliance.
• Approximately 200 state income tax filings.
• Income tax provision and accounting.
• Domestic tax planning and risk management.
• Complex partnership and consolidated corporate tax structures.
• Tax transformation, automation, and governance.

External advisers provide specialist support across areas including international tax, R&D credits, certain partnership calculations, GILTI, foreign tax credits, and selected transactional matters.

Why This Role

• Clear succession potential into more senior tax leadership.
• Lead an experienced team rather than building a function from scratch.
• Broad ownership across provision, compliance, planning, M&A, and transformation.
• Complex multistate environment offering genuine technical depth.
• High visibility with Finance, Legal, and senior business leadership.
• Opportunity to modernize an established tax function through automation, analytics, and AI.
• Significant in-house ownership rather than an overly outsourced tax model.
• Large, stable, privately held organization with a long track record of growth.

Compensation & Relocation

• Base salary: $160,000 – $200,000, with potential flexibility for an exceptional candidate.
• Annual incentive: 30% target.
• Incentive opportunity can reach up to 200% of target based on performance.
• Additional holiday bonus equivalent to approximately one week’s pay.
• Sign-on bonus flexibility for the right candidate.
• Comprehensive third-party relocation support available, including assistance with home sale, home purchase, and move coordination.

Working Arrangement

• Based in Georgia.
• Hybrid schedule requiring three days per week onsite.
• Regular interaction with teams across multiple corporate locations.

Equal Opportunity

The hiring organization is committed to providing an inclusive workplace and equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates in accordance with applicable employment laws.

The SR Group (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.