The Senior Tax Accountant will play a key role in ensuring accurate and timely tax compliance while driving efficiencies in reporting, planning, and process improvements. This role directly supports Ventas’s ability to meet regulatory obligations, optimize tax positions, and provide clear insights to leadership.
Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance and accuracy by preparing and reviewing federal, state, and local income tax returns for corporations, partnerships, and REITs.
- Support decision-making by preparing quarterly tax estimates and extensions, enabling effective cash flow planning.
- Strengthen risk management by preparing and reviewing specialty filings (e.g., sales tax, 1099s, informational returns) and responding to tax notices and inquiries.
- Enable strategic tax planning by gathering and analyzing detailed data from general ledger and tax systems for use in complex calculations, provision, and compliance.
- Provide insight through research on federal, state, and local tax issues to support planning and compliance strategies.
- Optimize state tax compliance by assisting with accruals and maintaining complete electronic documentation.
- Contribute to operational excellence by reviewing monthly and quarterly sales and use tax returns.
- Drive efficiency by partnering with Tax leadership to improve processes, enhance accuracy, and ensure timely completion of all deliverables.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required; CPA designation preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant tax experience (corporate, partnership, or REIT preferred).
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel; working knowledge of other Microsoft Office tools.
- Experience working with accounting and general ledger systems.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and analytical skills.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to contribute to team success in a fast-paced environment.
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Ventas, Inc. offers a competitive compensation and benefits package to the successful candidate.
Ventas, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Ventas, Inc. does not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing agencies, search firms or any third parties.
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What We Do
For more than two decades, Ventas, Inc., an S&P 500 company and one of the world’s foremost Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT), has operated as the premier capital provider to leading senior living, healthcare operators and research institutions. With more than $36 billion of investments under our belt, we own communities where patients and their families receive health and healing; where world class researchers discover treatments for disease; and where seniors live with dignity.
Thanks to our financial strength and liquidity, our stock and robust dividend provides secure retirement savings and income to pensioners, firefighters, teachers and individuals around the world.
We take our ESG (Environment, Social & Governance) commitments seriously. We’ve set meaningful ESG goals aligned to three pillars – People, Performance, Planet - emphasizing strong corporate governance; encouraging community engagement through social and financial support to communities where we live and work; and minimizing our environmental impact by protecting the planet while lowering operating costs and improving portfolio efficiency.
We're honored to receive many external recognitions for our efforts: Ventas was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the first time in 2019 and received Nareit’s 2019 Health Care Leader in the Light award for the fourth time. We were the first REIT to sign the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion and are a “Winning Company” on the 2020 Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index recognizing our 30% female Board. Our CEO, Debra A. Cafaro, is a leader widely-acclaimed for her strategic vision, and is ranked #29 in Harvard Business Review’s CEO 100, one of only 14 global CEOs named to HBR’s list consistently since 2014.
Our team is what truly differentiates us – our winning competitive edge is due to a rare combination of drive and skill and a commitment to excellence that fuels everything we do.
