Income Tax Senior Manager

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo is seeking an Income Tax Senior Manager to join our Tax team. Reporting to the Head of Global Income Tax, our Income Tax Senior Manager will manage the compliance and reporting process for all U.S. jurisdictions, encompassing the process from estimated tax payments through audits.

In addition, our Income Tax Senior Manager will work with others on the team to prepare the worldwide U.S. GAAP income tax provisions and accompanying disclosures for the annual and quarterly financial statements.

*We're open to this position working in a hybrid capacity out of our Denver, CO office (1401 Wynkoop).

Responsibilities:

• Manage the day-to-day compliance and reporting process for all U.S. federal and state income tax jurisdictions.

• Manage the relationship with our co-sourced tax compliance partner.

• Review income tax workpapers necessary for U.S. federal and state income tax compliance, including quarterly estimates and extensions, tax depreciation, and apportionment.

• Review U.S. tax calculations and reporting for foreign operations.

• Review U.S. tax calculations and associated financial statement disclosures for the worldwide tax provisions on a quarterly and annual basis.

• Assist with various consolidations of the U.S. GAAP tax provisions.

• Manage federal and state income tax audits as they arise.

• Supervise, develop, and train Senior Income Tax Analysts.

• Oversee the maintenance of tax law changes, fixed asset, loss carryforward, deferred interest, tax account, and similar schedules for U.S. entities.

• Provide guidance to the Senior Income Tax Analysts in gathering supporting data and responding to various state tax notices.

• Perform tax research and analysis as required to support technical issues, identify tax saving opportunities, adopt new accounting pronouncements, and evaluate proposed tax legislation impacts to the company.

• Assist with special projects such as tax planning and forecasting, accounting methods, and M&A activities, including due diligence, purchase accounting, and integrations.

• Assist with process and technology enhancements for tax provision and compliance.

• Other duties as they arise.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

• Minimum of 12 (twelve) years of combined work experience in income taxation with public accounting firm and corporate tax department

• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel

• Multi-national company experience

• Extensive understanding of U.S. federal and state corporate tax compliance

• Solid understanding of ASC 740

• Ability to take ownership and manage multiple staff and projects under tight deadlines

• Ability to work effectively cross-functionally and with external contacts

• Proactive self-starter with the ability to work independently and maintain large, detailed volumes of data

• Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, and time management skills

• Excellent analytical, judgment, and decision-making skills with the ability to adapt to change

• Strong work ethic and adaptability

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPA license

• Master’s degree in Taxation

• Experience with tax provision, compliance, and depreciation software (e.g. OneSource, Corptax, FMIS)

• Experience with data automation and analytics software (e.g. OneStream, Alteryx, PowerQuery)

Estimated Base Pay Range: $140,000 - $170,000 USD/annually.

The base pay range shown is a guideline and reasonable estimate for this role. It takes into account the wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions. Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted range based upon geographic location, work experience, skill level, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Non- sales roles may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive plan. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a sales incentive plan.

Additionally, this position may be eligible for certain benefits, such as health insurance, life insurance, disability retirement plans, paid time off.

The posting will be active for a minimum of 3 days. The active posting will continue to extend by 3 days until the position is filled.

Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan

• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.