Penn State Job Catalog

The Tax Compliance Manager is responsible for ensuring the University’s compliance with tax regulations and laws; analyzes changes to tax regulations and interprets the impact to the organization; serves as a consultant to stakeholders, leadership, and units on all tax issues.

• Ensure University compliance with tax regulations; establish the organizational tax strategy
• Prepare and file federal and state returns on behalf of the University
• Conduct analyses related to tax audits; minimize risk of non-compliance, liabilities, or legal issues
• Develop and implement University tax policies and procedures to ensure consistent and accurate tax reporting
• Provide expert consultation to other tax and financial units throughout the organization
• Interpret, analyze, and research new tax laws or regulations; determine the impact or necessary response to changes
• Communicate and disseminate complex information to stakeholders, executives, and leadership teams; understand the different interests and needs of clients while ensuring consistency and compliance across units
• Develop tax planning strategies; ensure the university optimizes tax benefits while maintaining compliance with applicable laws
• Lead and mentor team(s), including staffing, performance management, training, and professional development

Level:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 15
• Minimum – $109,300.00
• MidPoint – $136,600.00
• Maximum – $164,000.00