Property Tax Manager

R10098889 Property Tax Manager (Open) Location: Houston, TX (HO) - Finance - Hub World leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 80 countries with approximately 66,000 employees and serves more than 3,6 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen have been at the core of the company's activities since its creation in 1902. Air Liquide's ambition is to be the leader in its industry, delivering long-term performance and acting responsibly. Are you an experienced, forward-thinking property tax leader looking to drive innovation and transformation? Airgas is seeking a highly motivated Property Tax Manager to join our team in Houston, TX. In this key role, you will serve as a strategic partner, providing sound professional advice to management on all tax and tax law matters and their practical application to our business. You will direct end-to-end multi-jurisdictional compliance, lead audit defenses, mentor a talented team, and leverage cutting-edge AI and automation tools to modernize our tax processes. What You Will Do (Key Responsibilities) Proactive Initiative & Drive: Bring a strong ownership mindset to manage tight deadlines, multi-task under pressure, and independently drive continuous process improvements with minimal oversight. Tax Compliance: Direct the end-to-end compliance cycle for multi-jurisdictional real and personal property tax assets. Ensure absolute precision in material filings, payment processing, and system management within PTMS and enterprise ERPs (Oracle/SAP). Industrial Valuation & Audit Defense: Leverage deep technical knowledge of manufacturing, chemical, and industrial plant valuations to evaluate assessments, lead property tax audits, and negotiate directly with taxing authorities to secure favorable appeal outcomes. Accounting Rigor & Financial Control: Oversee property tax accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, budgeting, and financial forecasting. Identify cost-saving opportunities and actively pursue economic development incentives to optimize financial performance. Team Leadership & Quality Control: Mentor, train, and review the technical work product of property tax staff and offshore Shared Services partners. Establish accountable performance standards, enforce data integrity, and streamline operational workflows. Jurisdictional Relationship Management: Build and sustain authoritative, high-integrity relationships with state and local taxing jurisdictions, assessment officials, and third-party consultants. Regional & Group Alignment: Ensure the effective operation of the Tax function within the region, aligning with Group and Regional Tax specialists on key matters. Strategic Advisory: Provide and manage commercial and technical tax advice to stakeholders, ensuring consistent and effective tax risk management. Support investment papers with tax expertise as needed. Cross-Regional Collaboration: Collaborate with the Group tax team on cross-regional tax issues. Maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders across functions and the organization. Compliance & Audits: Oversee tax accounting, compliance, and audits to ensure regulatory adherence. Review and support transfer pricing documentation. Tax Transformation & Digitalization: Lead tax transformation initiatives, including the transfer of transactional tax activities to Finance GBS and optimizing tax-related processes, including digitalization. Risk & Insurance Management: Ensure adequate industrial risk coverage through appropriate insurance programs for regional affiliates, aligning with Group and Regional Insurance. Required Qualifications Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline. Tax Management Experience: 3+ years of tax management experience, including prior experience managing direct reports or technical team members. Deep Industry Experience: 10+ years of direct, hands‑on property tax experience managing large‑scale, complex multi-state corporate portfolios. Tax Regulations & Statutory Research: In-depth knowledge of state and local tax statutes across multi‑jurisdictional landscapes, with a demonstrated ability to conduct legal and tax research to interpret changing regulations. Valuation Expertise: Strong, proven background in personal and real property valuation methodologies applied to complex industrial, manufacturing, chemical, or process plant assets. Negotiation & Dispute Resolution: Superior negotiation skills with a track record of successfully advocating before assessment boards, tax commissioners, and local authorities to achieve tax settlements. Work Schedule (Hybrid): This is a hybrid position, requiring 3 days per week in our Houston, TX office. Travel: Willingness to travel up to 20% on average as required. Work Authorization: Must have valid U.S. work authorization without requiring current or future visa sponsorship. Preferred Qualifications Advanced Degree: Master's degree in Accounting, Tax, or Business Administration. AI Adoption & Process Modernization: Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools, intelligent automation, and modern tech workflows to optimize tax analytics, automate data processing, and continuously drive operational efficiencies across the property tax calendar cycle. Advanced Data Management & Enterprise Systems: Advanced capabilities handling, analyzing, and auditing large volumes of fixed asset data; expert‑level skill in leveraging PTMS, advanced spreadsheets, and enterprise ERP data structures (SAP/Oracle) to drive reporting efficiency. Our Differences make our Performance At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world. #J-18808-Ljbffr Air Liquide USA LLC