Tax Accounting Manager (Coeur d'Alene) at Idaho Forest Group in Coeur d Alene, Idaho

Job Description:

Summary:  

The purpose of the Tax Accounting Manager is to ensure the organization meets its tax obligations and regulatory requirements. Overall, the tax and compliance manager will play a vital role in maintaining the organization's legal and financial well-being by ensuring that it adheres to applicable laws and regulations and operates ethically and responsibly. This role is critical for maintaining legal and financial integrity, minimizing risks, and promoting transparency and is especially important in our organization’s complex tax code applications.  

Salary Range: $130k - $150k 

Essential Functions:

• Develop the organization’s tax compliance program to ensure all internal practices adhere to applicable US federal, state, and local laws.


• Quarterly, annual, and income tax projections, accruals and analysis; work with businesses/owners, applicable stakeholders and outside tax advisors for estimated payments.


• Maintain and reconcile all tax related general ledger accounts and oversee the preparation and recording of all required tax related journal entries and reconciliations.


• Facilitate and coordinate with outside tax advisors the preparation, review and timely submission of all required company, trust and other income tax filings.


• Plan for and manage tax return calendar and coordinate timing and inputs with the businesses/owners and applicable stakeholders and outside tax advisors.


• Proactive coordination with key stakeholders and thought partners around regular tax planning discussions.


• In coordination with outside tax advisors, monitor legislative and regulatory tax law developments, communicate the effects of these developments to management and create strategies to capitalize on changes to taxation legislation.


• Proactive review of property tax assessments for cost reductions, savings and overall management.


• Maintain effective control procedures over all aspects of the tax process.


• Find and implement opportunities for process improvement in company tax procedures.


• Team member of ad hoc projects that could include conservation easement analysis, strategic acquisitions, entity structure planning, internal audit procedures, government reporting, etc.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in Tax Compliance with relevant experience in a manufacturing environment. Forest Products experience a plus.


• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Taxation, Accounting, Finance, or a related field


• Public accounting experience within the tax service line


• Strong foundation with U.S. federal, state and local reporting requirements


• Strong knowledge of tax code and regulations, compliance and procedures


• Strong experience with a variety of tax operations and ability to drive process improvements


• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and fixed asset accounting systems


• Possess analytical skills, decision-making skills, strong interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail, intellectually curious.

Preferred:

• CPA license

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Ability to sit and/or stand for shift, reach with hands and arms, stoop, squat, bend at the waist, kneel, walk varying distance, and climb stairs.

• Bend at waist – occasional


• Twist upper body – occasional


• Stoop - occasional


• Repetitive use of hands – frequent for clerical duties


• Stand/walk – occasional


• Sit – frequent


• Vision – near and far correctable; depth perception


• Hearing – preferred for awareness of surrounding machinery, mobile equipment, emergencies

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Must be able to tolerate all weather elements, loud conditions, airborne particles (sawdust).

Idaho Forest Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, family medical history, or any other status protected by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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