Tax Manager

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 assessments 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 operationalization 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

Competency: Expected Level

• 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-prioritizes scope as necessary to accomplish critical outcomes by anticipating, influencing, and satisfying stakeholders' reasonable needs and established expectations.
• Market Insight & Service Orientation Expertise: optimizes 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 modeling 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 recognize 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.

Keyword: Tax Manager
Required Experience:

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

Category	Required	Preferred
Income tax compliance	A corporate compliance platform - Corptax, Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Income Tax, or CCH Axcess	Multi-state combined and unitary filing experience
Income tax provision	ASC 740 provision preparation in a dedicated provision tool - ONESOURCE Tax Provision, Corptax, or Longview - or in a controlled, documented model	Provision-to-return automation
Exempt organization filing	Preparation and review of Forms 990 and 990-T through IRS Modernized e-File approved software	State charitable registration platforms
Indirect tax systems	Working knowledge of a tax determination engine - Vertex, ONESOURCE Determination, or Avalara - sufficient to review configuration and validate output	Hands-on configuration; returns platform administration
Data preparation & analytics	Advanced Excel including Power Query; and Alteryx or equivalent data preparation tooling	SQL; Python or R; dbt or comparable transformation tooling
Visualization & reporting	Power BI or Tableau for recurring tax reporting and exception analytics	Dashboard design for non-tax audiences
Workflow automation	Familiarity with an automation platform - Power Automate, UiPath, or equivalent	Solution design and maintenance ownership
Enterprise systems	Working knowledge of a major ERP - SAP S/4HANA, Oracle, NetSuite, or Workday - and how tax-relevant data originates within it	Procurement and expense platforms (Coupa, Concur); billing and e-commerce systems
Tax research	A major research platform - Checkpoint, CCH, Bloomberg Tax, or comparable	Experience with AI-assisted research tools and appropriate verification practice
Artificial intelligence	Ability to use approved generative AI tools responsibly, with independent verification, citation, and documented review	Experience contributing to AI use standards within a tax or finance function

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ETS is mission driven and action oriented

• We are passionate about hiring innovative thinkers who believe in the promise of education and lifelong learning.
• We are energized by cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders. In support of this ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you to learn and advance your career growth!
• As a not-for-profit organization we will encourage you to lean in to your passion for volunteering. At ETS you may qualify for up to an additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work on causes that are important to you!
• The base salary range advertised represents the low and high end of the anticipated salary range for this position. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. The base pay is only one aspect of the Total Rewards Package that will be offered to the successful candidate.

ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law. We believe in creating a work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.

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