Director of Tax
About The Position
We are seeking a highly strategic and commercially minded Director, Tax to lead tax planning, structuring, and execution across a capital-intensive, infrastructure-driven business. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing tax strategies that support long-term growth, optimize cash taxes, and align with the Company’s operating model, investment strategy, and transaction activity. The ideal candidate will bring deep technical tax expertise, strong business judgment, and experience advising on complex matters involving data centers, cost segregation, capital expenditures, M&A, managed services, cloud and colocation arrangements, and tax-efficient structuring. This is a highly visible role that will partner closely with Finance, Accounting, Legal, Operations, Corporate Development, Treasury, and external advisors.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Tax, or related field required
- 10+ years of progressive tax experience, including public accounting and/or corporate tax experience.
- Strong experience with strategic tax planning, corporate tax structuring, and tax compliance.
- Demonstrated experience with cost segregation, depreciation planning, capitalization rules, and fixed asset tax strategies.
- Experience supporting M&A, divestitures, carve-outs, restructuring, and post-transaction integration.
- Familiarity with managed services agreements, intercompany arrangements, and tax considerations for complex commercial contracts.
- Strong understanding of federal, state, local, and indirect tax matters.
- Excellent analytical, communication, project management, and executive-facing skills.
Nice To Haves
- CPA, JD, or Master’s in Tax preferred.
- Experience with capital-intensive businesses, infrastructure, energy, real estate, data centers, or similar asset-heavy industries strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of tax strategies that support the Company’s business objectives, growth plans, and capital deployment priorities.
- Identify and implement opportunities to optimize cash taxes, effective tax rate, tax attributes, and entity structure.
- Advise leadership on tax implications of major business decisions, including capital investments, financing structures, commercial arrangements, and expansion into new jurisdictions.
- Drive tax planning for capital-intensive projects, including data center development, infrastructure buildouts, equipment purchases, leasehold improvements, and related investments.
- Lead cost segregation studies and depreciation planning to maximize tax efficiency and cash tax benefits.
- Partner with Operations, Legal, Corporate Development, Accounting, and external advisors to ensure capital projects are structured, documented, and classified appropriately for tax purposes.
- Evaluate tax strategies related to bonus depreciation, tangible property regulations, repairs versus capitalization, and asset classification.
- Support tax diligence, structuring, modeling, and integration for acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, carve-outs, and other strategic transactions.
- Advise on tax-efficient deal structures, purchase price allocations, tax attributes, indemnities, transaction costs, and post-close integration matters.
- Partner with Corporate Development, Legal, and external advisors to assess transaction risks and opportunities.
- Advise on tax considerations related to managed services agreements, hosting arrangements, intercompany services, revenue models, and customer or vendor contracts.
- Assess tax implications of operating models, including transfer pricing, revenue sourcing, sales and use tax, property tax, withholding tax, and indirect tax considerations.
- Help ensure commercial agreements are structured in a tax-efficient and operationally practical manner.
- Oversee federal, state, local, and applicable international tax compliance processes.
- Partner with Accounting on tax provision, deferred taxes, uncertain tax positions, and financial statement disclosures.
- Develop scalable tax processes, controls, documentation, and governance frameworks.
- Manage relationships with external tax advisors and ensure high-quality, cost-effective support.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on tax matters.
- Translate complex tax concepts into clear business recommendations.
- Build strong working relationships across Finance, Legal, Operations, Corporate Development, and external stakeholders.
- Mentor and develop tax team members as the function grows.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life, and short-term and long-term disability insurance, as well as paid time off.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
