Director of Tax

Director Of Tax

TerraPower is seeking a Director of Tax to oversee the company's tax filing requirements, including federal and state income tax returns, and provide strategic support for tax incentives and tax mitigation projects. The Director will lead tax research and special project work, ensuring compliance with all applicable tax laws. The successful candidate will demonstrate advanced expertise in US partnership taxation, GAAP accounting consolidated and international tax returns, and multi-state tax concepts.

Responsibilities include:

• Leading the management of partnership tax returns, LLC members' GAAP and tax capital account roll forward, ensuring proper income (loss) allocations.
• Providing strategic leadership and oversight partnership tax reporting, including reviewing and reconciling amounts between tax returns and source data.
• Directing R&D tax credit and expenses, ensuring accurate and compliant reporting.
• Overseeing the accumulation, analysis, and processing of financial data in preparation for tax returns, budgets, forecasts, and financial accounting estimates related to tax.
• Performing tax research and writing memos to support tax positions.
• Supporting the tax team on all tax audits, ensuring efficient resolution.
• Supporting state and local tax (SALT) matters, including SALT compliance and operations, exemption certifications, and matters related to remote workers across multiple states, ensuring compliance with multi-state tax laws.
• Providing guidance and review for financial statement reporting related to taxes.
• Supporting tax strategies and advising leadership of trends and changes in tax requirements and impact on business planning.
• Monitoring, evaluating and analyzing emerging tax trends and providing expertise on impact to organization.
• Staying updated on federal, state, and international tax law changes, maintaining a high level of knowledge in the tax field.
• Working cross departmentally with entities on tax opportunities and compliance, finance on budgeting and forecasting, legal on entity set-up and compliance, and other departments to gather the necessary information for reporting purposes.
• Managing external tax advisors and consultants for outsourced tax compliance and advisory services.
• Including preparation of quarterly review tax process, annual audit process, documentation, and associated internal control work.

Key qualifications and skills include:

• Master's degree in Taxation or related field.
• Extensive experience in LLC partnership tax, corporate tax, and state income tax compliance.
• Minimum of 15 years of work experience in an accounting or tax environment, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• CPA license preferred.
• Big 4 and industry tax experience strongly preferred.
• Deep knowledge of federal, state, and local income tax forms, including Form 1065, Form 6765, and various state partnership returns.
• Industry experience in engineering, nuclear, aerospace, and defense preferred.
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel; ability to quickly adapt to other Finance and Accounting systems (e.g., Oracle Cloud ERP, Concur).
• Knowledge of Oracle preferred.
• Experience with direct and indirect cost, allowable and unallowable expenses.
• Familiarity with government grants and government contracts preferred.
• Strong organizational skills, high attention to detail, and accuracy.
• Ability to quickly grasp new information and technologies.
• Experience working in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable working with cross-functional teams and non-accounting professionals.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks effectively.
• Proven leadership skills, with the ability to foster teamwork and collaboration in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• High degree of integrity and trustworthiness, with a commitment to open communication and respect.