Senior Manager, Tax - Provisions (San Francisco)

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we've ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don't share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it.

We're singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them - with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

We hire people who care deeply about this problem space. If that is you, please apply!

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

The Finance & Accounting Team

Examples of key problems the team is working on

• Build the financial infrastructure from the ground up (NetSuite, Zip, Shareworks, Pigment).
• Stand up a lean finance org for the fastest-growing data center hyperscaler.
• Own the full stack from vendor invoice to cap table.

Role Scope

• Own the income tax provision under ASC 740 end to end across a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction datacenter company scaling to tens of gigawatts.
• Build the tax provision process and controls from the ground up alongside the finance systems stack such as NetSuite, Zip, and Pigment.
• Manage the relationship with external tax advisors and auditors, and own the tax positions that have to survive an audit.
• Model the tax impact of new sites, entities, financings, and jurisdictions as the company expands across states and countries.
• Partner with accounting and FP&A to keep the effective tax rate, deferred taxes, and disclosures accurate through every close.

What We're Looking For

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
• You've owned the ASC 740 income tax provision for a company through its audits, including deferred taxes, valuation allowances, and the rate reconciliation.
• You've built or overhauled a tax provision process and its controls rather than inheriting a finished one.
• You've managed external tax advisors and auditors and held your tax positions under their scrutiny.
• You've handled tax across multiple entities and jurisdictions, including the complexity that comes with new states and countries.
• You've partnered with accounting and FP&A during a close and delivered the provision and disclosures on the timeline the close demanded.
• You explain a technical tax position clearly enough that a non-tax executive can make a decision on it.
• Bonus: CPA or an advanced tax qualification. Big Four tax provision experience. Capital-intensive or infrastructure companies. Multinational tax and transfer pricing. NetSuite or Pigment.

We are committed to pay equity and transparency.

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.