Technical Director, Sales and Use Tax

Nationwide Mutual Insurance•Columbus, OH

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a team member in Finance at Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, the opportunities are endless! Let Nationwide help create your career journey! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care. The Tax Director is responsible for leading the company’s sales and use tax and personal property tax functions, with accountability for compliance, planning, legislative monitoring, and audit management. This role provides strategic and technical leadership to help ensure tax obligations are met accurately and timely, tax positions are well supported, and tax risks and planning opportunities are identified and addressed proactively. Our team collaborates to deliver results that regularly surpass our goals, we reward creative ideas, adopt technology and emphasize continuous improvement. Do you have a flexible approach, willingness to view issues holistically and have a knack for organizing information and workflows? If so, we want to hear from you! As a Director, you'll advise the tax planning function to arrange business transactions in a manner that will minimize tax liabilities at the federal and/or state and local levels to achieve the corporate objective for the transaction. We'll count on you to advise the filing of the applicable return(s) and coordinates, controls and settles audits for assigned companies. You'll minimize the enterprise tax liability through a detailed knowledge and application of the consolidated tax return rules and regulations, including related acquisitions, divestitures, and general corporate activity in consideration of current tax case law, regulations and pending tax legislation.

Requirements

Undergraduate degree with studies in tax, law or accounting.
Progress toward a master's degree in taxation.
Minimum of eight years in insurance tax field for a life or multi-line insurance company, public accounting firm or law firm.
Six years tax management experience.
Proven knowledge of federal and state/local tax law.
Knowledge of statutory and/or GAAP accounting.
Knowledge of modeling and tax systems.
Knowledge of research techniques.
Ability to communicate as exemplified in position papers.
Good verbal communication skills that allow a technical area to be understood by business unit executives.
Ability to develop teams.
Ability to negotiate with federal and state/local auditors as well as with business partners.
Ability to evaluate tax laws and their impact on business operations.
Other criteria, including leadership skills, proficiencies and experiences may take precedence.

Nice To Haves

CPA or J.D. is desired.

Responsibilities

Lead all sales and use tax and personal property tax compliance activities, including return preparation, filings, payments, and notices
Oversee the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of tax data, calculations, accruals, reconciliations, and supporting documentation
Establish and maintain processes and controls to support compliance with state and local tax requirements
Review taxability determinations for purchases, leases, software, services, fixed assets, and other transactions
Manage exemption certificate administration and other documentation required to support tax positions
Monitor compliance calendars, notices, registrations, and jurisdictional requirements to help ensure all obligations are met
Identify and lead tax planning opportunities related to sales and use tax and personal property tax
Evaluate transaction flows, systems, sourcing, and operational changes to improve tax efficiency and reduce risk
Determines the implementation of tax modules in programs for the production of accounting data and operating results.
Consults on the preparation and review of the federal and state/local tax return for all assigned enterprise companies.
Coordinates all federal and state/local tax audits.
Provides research for use in negotiated settlements for the most advantageous position for Nationwide.
Reviews analysis and reports.
Leads legislative workload with existing compliance and planning.
Develops personnel in the area of legislative activity.
Advises the various accounting departments in the enterprise of the accurate tax reporting policies of financial data and on record maintenance for tax purposes.
Interacts with other departments, to provide guidance from a tax perspective, for federal and state/local tax filing and review of documentation for examination by the IRS and other authorities.
Resolves work assignments for the development of the tax provision for statutory and GAAP reports.
Establishes teams to support the reporting processes.
Responsible for developing staff understanding of accounting as well as tax law.
Resolves tax issues with accounting and/or financial auditors.
Reports on Sarbanes Oxley controls.
Authorizes tax payments and intercompany settlements.
Analyzes the impact of federal taxes on the current direction of the assigned enterprise companies.
Works with senior management in evaluating current and proposed business transactions by incorporating the tax impact in the analysis.
Advises associate management, including performance management, salary planning and administration, training and development, workflow planning, hiring and placement and disciplinary actions.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.