State Tax Manager - Compliance

Your Job

Are you a skilled and proactive tax professional looking to make your mark in a dynamic and challenging role? Koch Industries is seeking a State Tax Manager - Compliance to join our innovative team of forward-thinking professionals. In this role, you will be exposed to a range of tax capabilities, including reporting, controversy, position management, process transformation, and business consulting. You will have the opportunity to explore data and pursue career advancement across a wide variety of opportunities. This position offers a unique chance to engage with our business units, gaining insights into their operations and working closely with leaders to develop innovative solutions. The role can be based out of our Atlanta, GA, Plano, TX, or Wichita, KS offices.

Our Team

The state team is a crucial part of our overall SALT capability, responsible for all aspects of state income and franchise tax reporting, controversy, and position management for the Koch businesses. We pride ourselves on taking ownership of our roles, driving innovation, and building strong relationships across the organization.

What You Will Do

• Manage the overall state income and franchise tax reporting process in partnership with the Senior Tax Manager - Reporting, including:
• Review state estimate and extension calculations and payments.
• Review state income franchise returns and workpapers.
• Coordinate payment processing with Tax Support team and Treasury.
• Analyze tax liability drivers and changes from prior years.
• Ensure tax reporting reflects business realignments, asset sales, tax positions, and state tax attributes.
• Managing relationships with outside consultants.
• Participate in the state tax accounting process by reviewing support for the state effective tax rate, state deferreds, and state payable account.
• Identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement within the state tax organization, including using AI tools.
• Build and develop relationships across the tax organization and other Koch companies and manage and leverage data to optimize state processes and business tax positions.
• Develop state tax compliance knowledge and skills in team members.
• Ability to manage complex processes and resources to accomplish our goal.
• Ability to collaborate with other areas of the tax life cycle as appropriate.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 5+ years experience in state tax compliance, including preparing and reviewing state and local income tax returns
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, project management skills and the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills
• Strong understanding of state technical concepts such as nexus, conformity / modifications to federal tax provisions, apportionment, and tax reporting rules
• Comprehensive understanding of state tax lifecycle (provision, compliance, planning and audit)

What Will Put You Ahead

• Proficiency using OneSource Income Tax (OIT), Alteryx, PowerBI and Copilot.
• Experience in supporting state effective tax rates, state deferreds, and/or other elements of the state tax accounting processes.
• Prior experience developing and/or supervising team members.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.


At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.


Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).