Tax Manager

ETS

Princeton (NJ)

On-site

USD 155,000 - 210,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

ETS, a global education and talent solutions organization based near Princeton, NJ, is seeking a Tax Manager to lead federal, state and local tax compliance for taxable subsidiaries and oversee exempt‑organization filings. The role includes ASC 740 provision work, indirect tax oversight, and tax automation initiatives.

The position collaborates with Corporate Finance, Legal, Treasury and external advisors, while mentoring tax professionals and driving process improvements to support ETS’s

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA/JD/MST preferred.
7–10 years corporate tax experience in industry, public accounting or both.
Experience with ASC 740 and provision preparation.
Experience with state and local tax compliance and transfer pricing.
Strong written and verbal communication; ability to explain complex tax concepts.

Responsibilities

Prepare and review federal, state and local income and franchise tax returns for ETS’s taxable subsidiaries.
Oversee exempt‑organization compliance including Forms 990 and 990‑T; file e‑returns as required.
Prepare and review ASC 740 provision and related analyses; support external audits.
Oversee U.S. indirect taxes: sales/use, gross receipts and excise; manage nexus and registrations.
Coordinate with external advisors; respond to notices and audits.
Identify and implement automation and data analytics for tax processes.

Skills

Tax compliance

ASC 740

Transfer pricing

Tax automation

Education

B.S. degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA / J.D. / MST (preferred)

Tools

Corptax

ONESOURCE

CCH Axcess

Checkpoint/Bloomberg Tax

Job description

About ETS

ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future‑ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessment tests, including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
The Tax Manager supports the Enterprise Tax Service Group in completing monthly, quarterly and year‑end tax reporting and compliance requirements across ETS’s taxable and tax‑exempt entities. The position is responsible for federal, state and local income and franchise tax compliance for taxable subsidiaries, for exempt‑organization compliance for the parent and affiliated exempt entities, and for oversight of U.S. indirect taxes.
The role prepares and reviews the annual and interim income tax provision under ASC 740, manages the compliance calendar across all filing types, responds to notices and audits, and applies tax technology and data tooling to simplify and accelerate recurring processes.
The role liaises with SBU and Corporate Finance, Legal, Treasury, Procurement, Supplier Management, Information Technology and external auditors, and coordinates external advisors and co‑sourcing providers to ensure accurate and timely filing across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

Manage federal, state and local income and franchise tax compliance for ETS’s taxable subsidiaries. Prepare or review the consolidated federal return, separate and combined state returns, apportionment schedules, estimated payments and extensions, and maintain the supporting workpapers.
Manage exempt‑organization compliance for the parent and affiliated exempt entities. Prepare or review Forms 990, 990‑T with a separate Schedule A for each unrelated trade or business under Section 512(a)(6), and state charitable registration and UBIT filings, including required disclosures and attachments, filed electronically through IRS Modernized e‑File.
Prepare and review the annual and interim income tax provision under ASC 740, including current and deferred computations, deferred tax inventory, valuation allowance analysis, uncertain tax positions and the expanded rate reconciliation and income‑taxes‑paid. Support the external audit of the tax accounts.
Provide oversight of U.S. indirect taxes – sales and use, gross receipts and excise. Review returns prepared by external providers, monitor nexus and registration status, oversee exemption and resale certificate management, and review the configuration and output of the indirect tax determination logic in ETS’s enterprise systems.
Manage tax accruals, budgets, forecasts and cash tax projections, and maintain reconciliations among the provision, the general ledger and filed returns.
Prepare and review responses to IRS, state and local tax authority notices, information document requests and audits across income, exempt‑organization and indirect tax matters, including production of records, data extracts and sampling support.
Conduct and document tax research on federal, state and exempt‑organization matters. Prepare technical memoranda and position papers, including analysis of unrelated business income, state nexus and apportionment, remote‑seller and marketplace facilitator rules and the tax treatment of new and digitally delivered offerings. Recommend positions to the Corporate Tax Senior Director for approval.
Monitor federal, state and exempt‑organization legislative and regulatory developments, assess the impact on ETS and communicate the implications to the tax function and to affected stakeholders.
Manage other recurring tax filings and obligations, including information reporting (Forms 1099 and 1042‑S), property tax, unclaimed property and support for foreign information returns and transfer pricing documentation.
Identify, design and implement automation and process improvement across the compliance and provision cycles, and maintain the documentation, review evidence and change‑control records that keep tax processes, models and automations auditable and reproducible.
Coordinate external advisors and co‑sourcing providers on deliverables, data exchanges and deadlines, and escalate scope or quality issues to the Corporate Tax Senior Director.
Supervise, coach, develop tax professionals and work cross‑functionally to understand the business entities, identify tax planning opportunities and support the operationalisation of new business models.

Tax Technology, Data and Automation

The position is expected to work hands‑on in the tools below and to act as the tax function’s day‑to‑day counterpart to Information Technology and Finance Systems on tax data quality and system change.

Income tax provision software: maintain entity and jurisdiction structures, provision templates and data feeds from the general ledger and consolidation systems; support the provision‑to‑return process.
Indirect tax determination and compliance platforms: review taxability mapping, jurisdiction and rate content and certificate management; validate engine output against source transactions and participate in user acceptance testing for rate, rule and system changes.
Data preparation and analytics: build and maintain repeatable data pipelines and reconciliations using AI technology.
Enterprise systems: represent tax requirements on ERP, procurement, expense and billing changes, from design specification through post‑implementation validation.
Artificial intelligence: use ETS‑approved generative and agentic AI tools to accelerate tax research, first‑draft memoranda, document and contract data extraction and anomaly detection on provision and transaction data. All AI‑assisted output must be independently verified against authoritative source material, retain citations sufficient to support a defensible position and be reviewed before use. Adhere to ETS information security, data classification and AI governance policies; confidential or personally identifiable data may not be entered into tools not approved for it.

Process Outputs and Deliverables

Consolidated federal income tax return; state and local income and franchise returns; estimates and extensions
Forms 990 and 990‑T with per‑activity Schedule A support; state charitable registration and UBIT filings
U.S. sales and use, gross receipts and excise returns and reconciliations (reviewed)
ASC 740 provision workpapers, provision‑to‑return reconciliations and ASU 2023‑09 disclosure support
Tax accruals, budgets, forecasts and cash tax projections
Technical memoranda, research files and recommended tax positions
Notice and audit response packages across income, exempt‑organization and indirect tax matters
Information reporting, property tax and unclaimed property filings; foreign information return and transfer pricing support
Tax metrics and management reporting; ad hoc analysis and contract review support

People Management

This position has direct report responsibility.
Supervision provided: the incumbent sets priorities and deadlines within the compliance and reporting calendar, reviews significant work product before it is filed or released, provides technical coaching across income, exempt‑organization and indirect tax matters, develops the direct report’s tax technology and data capabilities and conducts performance planning and review in accordance with ETS practice. The incumbent also directs the work of external advisors and co‑sourcing providers, including scope, deliverable standards and fee monitoring.

Required Competencies

Functional & Technical Acumen Mastery/Expertise: able to do, explain, teach, re‑imagine and innovate within the specific domain.
Technology & Data Fluency Expertise: applies tax technology, data preparation, analytics and automation tools hands‑on to redesign tax processes; assesses emerging tools, including AI, for fitness and control implications.
End to End ETS Understanding Expertise: understands the interrelationship of roles with the external environment and how these may affect ETS both now and in the future.
Results Orientation Expertise: periodically redefines and re‑prioritises scope as necessary to accomplish critical outcomes by anticipating, influencing and satisfying stakeholders’ reasonable needs and established expectations.
Market Insight & Service Orientation Expertise: optimises mission, operational, financial and other outcomes for ETS by anticipating, influencing and satisfying stakeholders’ reasonable needs and established expectations.
Learning Agility Mastery/Expertise: actively promotes knowledge transfer by enabling self and others to learn from personal and institutional experience and to apply available knowledge and skills to work now and in the future.
Relationship Mastery / People Skills Expertise: improves capacity for institutional success by modelling and enabling effective individual and group relationships among others.

Position Specifications — Other Requirements

Ability to move between for‑profit and not‑for‑profit tax rules and to recognise which framework applies to a given entity or transaction.
Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical tax and accounting concepts to non‑tax colleagues and to senior management.
Strong conceptual, critical thinking, analytical and quantitative skills and the ability to problem solve.
Solid understanding of transfer pricing concepts.
Ability to translate a tax technical requirement into a system or data requirement that an IT or Finance Systems partner can act on.
Ability to work independently and to manage competing deadlines across a multi‑entity, multi‑jurisdictional compliance calendar.
Sound professional judgment regarding the appropriate use, verification and documentation of AI‑assisted work product.
Commitment to ETS’s data privacy, information security and records retention obligations.

Position Specifications — Education and Experience

Candidates with experience spanning both taxable and tax‑exempt entities are preferred. Candidates with depth on one side and demonstrated ability to learn the other will be considered.

Required: B.S. degree in Accounting or Finance.
Preferred: CPA, J.D. or M.S.T.
Required: seven to ten years of corporate tax experience in industry, public accounting or a combination.
Required: federal and state corporate income and franchise tax compliance experience, including consolidated or combined filings and apportionment.
Required: strong technical skills and demonstrated experience with ASC 740.
Required: working knowledge of U.S. sales and use tax, including nexus, taxability determination and exemption certificate management.
Required: demonstrated experience preparing or reviewing tax workpapers and reconciliations in a controlled, documented environment.
Preferred: exempt‑organization tax experience, including Forms 990 and 990‑T and unrelated business income analysis under Section 512(a)(6).
Preferred: experience with state and local tax controversy, audits and notice resolution.
Preferred: experience with information reporting, property tax or unclaimed property.
Preferred: exposure to international tax matters, including foreign information returns and transfer pricing documentation.
Preferred: a demonstrable record of delivering at least one tax automation or process improvement project from design through production.
Preferred: experience reviewing the work of others or supervising staff.

Position Specifications — Technology and Systems

Candidates are not expected to have used every platform listed. The requirement is hands‑on depth in at least one tool in each required category and the demonstrated ability to learn adjacent platforms.