Overview

What you will do: Clarios is looking for a Tax Manager to become a key member of its Domestic Tax team. Reporting directly to the Domestic Senior Tax Manager, the role will collaborate on all aspects of Domestic Tax, including but not limited to the U.S. federal and state income tax compliance, quarterly tax provision support, state income tax planning, and tax controversy matters. The role requires strong technical tax competence in U.S. federal and state income taxation and will serve as a key technical resource across the Domestic Tax function. This position will support the Clarios Global Tax Reporting team as part of the quarterly US tax provision process, coordinate with the US Finance team, offshore business center team based in Bratislava, and Clarios Treasury team. The role will also work closely with external tax service providers to facilitate the efficient and timely completion of federal and state income tax filings, while improving the processes, controls, documentation, and automation supporting those filings. The role requires a high level of technical proficiency of tax compliance and tax accounting in a multinational environment with U.S. federal, state, and international tax exposure. The successful candidate must be comfortable applying federal and multi-state income tax concepts to compliance, provision, planning, tax controversy, and business expansion matters. The role demands developing leadership qualities, strong interpersonal skills, a robust desire to get things done, challenge the status quo, and drive improvements. Domestic Tax is an ambitious team, and we want you to be ambitious too! This role is a hybrid role. For those living further than 1 hour from our Glendale, WI HQ location, the role would require 1-2 days per week onsite. For those within 1 hour from our HQ location, our standard hybrid working policies apply. At the heart of the role will be responsibility for U.S. federal and state income tax matters, with a focus on the end-to-end income tax compliance process and its integration with the quarterly tax provision process. A deep multi-state income tax competence will be important to success in the role. With high volume state data, prior involvement in tax automation and transformation efforts is also ideal. This role will be a key person responsible for state income tax matters supporting business expansion, nexus and apportionment considerations, state audit defense, notices, refund claims, and other tax controversy matters. How you will do it: Lead and coordinate the Domestic federal and state income tax compliance processes to ensure adherence to deadlines; work with external tax service providers and other members of the Clarios tax team to plan, manage, review, and complete federal and state income tax filings; Ensure compliance positions are technically supportable and appropriately documented Support the preparation and review of the quarterly and annual Domestic income tax provision computations; assist in coordination of effective tax rate, uncertain tax positions and cash tax deliverables Serve as a key resource for federal and state tax controversy, including managing responses to taxing authority information requests and notices, supporting U.S. domestic tax audits, developing technical responses, coordinating with external advisors where appropriate, and supporting appeals of tax assessments Drive process improvements and automation across the income tax filing process, including data collection, workpaper preparation, review workflows, documentation standards, return-to-provision processes, and compliance/provision data integration; enhance controls and repeatability across the end-to-end process Understand the business and related tax matters and develop the ability to translate this knowledge into tax planning and forecasting, with particular focus on state income tax implications of business expansion, manufacturing footprint changes, legal entity changes, supply chai