Associate Director, Tax

Natera; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Natera is seeking an Associate Director, Tax to lead the preparation and filing of federal, state, and international tax returns, and to oversee tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions. The role focuses on developing tax plans, forecasting, process improvements, and reducing risk in collaboration with accounting and leadership teams.

The ideal candidate will drive strategic tax planning, manage relationships with external consultants, and monitor regulatory developments to update policies

Responsibilities

• Responsible for federal, state and international tax accounting and compliance, including income, business, sales and use, withholding, VAT, and property taxes; coordinates regulatory filings as required.
• Manage the preparation and review of federal and state tax returns and timely filing of all tax forms, including SOX documentation.

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY:

Natera is looking for an Associate Director, Tax to manage and facilitate the accurate preparation and filing of our company’s various tax and compliance filings including, state and federal income and business tax filings, international tax compliance, as well as multi-state sales and use tax returns. The ideal candidate is a team player who creates and implements tax plans, forecasts, and works with the accounting and leadership teams to identify opportunities for process improvement, tax savings, and potential areas of risk. The Tax and Compliance Manager will ensure compliance with state, federal and international tax law through a series of systems, inquiries and controls that are designed to ensure accurate, timely reporting. They will monitor current and impending changes to tax regulation and make the appropriate updates to policies and strategies. The ideal candidate is single minded in their pursuit of ensuring compliance and achieves this goal through optimizing reporting procedures and driving the successful performance of the tax function. This role will be reporting to Corporate Controller.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for federal, state and international tax related accounting and compliance, including such taxes as income, business, sales and use, withholding, HST/GST, VAT and property taxes, as well as preparing and/or coordinated other regulatory and compliance filings as required.
• Facilitate and manage the preparation and review (including for SOX compliance documentation purposes) company federal and state tax returns and the accurate, timely filing of all tax forms.
• Ensure accurate, timely filing of consolidated federal, state and local income tax returns and other business-related filings, including sales, use, property tax returns and additional statutory recurring filings.
• Prepare adjusting journal entries as needed.
• Responsible for tax related accounts and related reconciliations
• Find and implement opportunities for process improvement in company tax procedures.
• Develop and implement strategic tax planning for all necessary federal, state and international taxes.
• Manage relationship with third party consulting firm who is currently assisting with miscellaneous tax compliance initiatives and tax returns.
• Plan for and develop overall tax returns and business tax and compliance filings calendar and coordinate timing and inputs from accounting team and management.
• Maintain effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process.
• Manage and facilitate IRS income tax audits: preparing responses, creating schedules, etc.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory tax law developments, communicate the effects of these developments to management and the tax team and create strategies to capitalize on changes to taxation legislation.
• Provide support with various internal audits and special tax related projects.
• Review tax returns and quarterly/yearly tax projections.
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