Tax Accounting Manager

💼 Tax Accounting Manager (Hybrid | Atlanta, GA)📍 Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)

🌟 About the Role

We are seeking a Tax Accounting Manager to lead the consolidated income tax provision process and support our global tax function. This role is responsible for overseeing tax provision activities, supporting tax compliance efforts, driving special projects, and leading a high-performing team.

✅ Key Responsibilities

📊 Review and manage monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidated income tax provisions
📝 Prepare and/or review tax provision calculations and supporting workpapers
✅ Ensure compliance with internal controls and tax accounting requirements
🌎 Support global tax compliance activities and special projects
🤝 Partner with finance, accounting, and cross-functional teams on tax reporting matters
📈 Identify and implement process improvements to drive efficiency and accuracy
👥 Develop, mentor, and lead the tax accounting team
🔍 Analyze tax reporting data and provide recommendations to leadership

🎯 Qualifications

🎓 bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or related field
🏅 CPA preferred
📚 Strong experience in corporate tax accounting and income tax provisions
💡 Knowledge of ASC 740 and tax compliance processes
👥 Proven leadership and team management experience
🗣️ Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills

🎉 Why Join Us?

🏠🏢 Hybrid work environment in Atlanta, GA
🚀 Opportunity to make an impact within a global organization
📈 Career growth and leadership development opportunities
🤝 Collaborative and supportive team culture

Apply today and help drive tax excellence across a growing global organization! 🌟

Responsibilities

• Manages, reviews, and/or prepares the international components of the income tax provisions, including, but not limited to:
   
  • calculation of the foreign income tax implications to be reported in our quarterly Securities and Exchange Commission filings;
  • tax technical memos;
  • deferred income tax analyses, realizability models, and proofs;
  • return to provision analyses;
  • assists in maintenance of Sarbanes – Oxley tax documentation and compliance;
  • technical analyses; and
  • coordination with other Crawford Tax Team members, finance, international finance, operations and external advisors and auditors.
     
• Manages, reviews, and/or prepares the consolidated income tax provision reported in quarterly Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including, but not limited to:
   
  • reviewing or preparing the income tax footnotes and related disclosures in accordance with ASC 740 and Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements;
  • reviewing uncertain tax positions, associated reserves, interest, and penalties;
  • overseeing and validating the preparation, consolidation, and review of the consolidated income tax provision within OneSource Tax Provision, including current and deferred tax calculations, tax rate reconciliations, deferred tax balances, valuation allowances, and related provision analyses; and
  • coordinating provision deliverables and resolving review matters with Tax, Finance, external advisors, and independent auditors.
     
• Assists with the international income tax compliance and statutory reporting collection process as needed, including the following:
   
  • coordinates and oversees the international tax compliance for operations in approximately 70 countries in accordance with the global tax compliance calendar.
     
• Assists in audit defense and is responsible for:
   
  • assisting with tax authority inquiries and related audit settlements and other negotiations; and
  • representing the Company in-front of tax authorities.
     
• Assists with Tax Department special projects on an as needed basis.
• Collaborates with, trains, and develops members of the Tax Department, including the off-shore tax function, and works with peers to maintain a positive team atmosphere.
• Evaluates tax systems and processes, and recommends and implements improvements, if appropriate, to maximize use of technology and the off-shore tax function.
• Identifies, evaluates and recommends tax process improvements.
• Maintains effective relationships within divisional personnel, international business unit personnel and advisors to identify the Company’s tax opportunities and exposures.
• Remains informed with respect to tax law developments and their impact on the Company.

• Upholds the Crawford Code of Conduct

  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting required; and 
• Master of Taxation or Accounting required.
• CPA required
• Minimum 5 years’ corporate tax experience
• Big 4 public accounting experience required
• Experience with UK, Canada, and Australia tax regimes, preferred
• OneSource Tax Provision experience, preferred•
• Strong income tax technical skills and base of accounting skills, required
• Strong analytical, verbal and written communication, people, project management and organizational skills, required
• Leadership skills, presence, and ability to interact with all levels in the organization and with various tax authorities, required
• Supervisory and project management experience, required
• Includes some levels of domestic and international travel, as needed
• Extensive knowledge of ASC 740 required.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to liaise with cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects, effectively prioritize, manage others, and meet deadlines
• Highly motivated, creative, articulate, results oriented
• Ability to grow and change with the organization
• Flexible and able to operate in fast paced, changing environment
• Strong technical tax skills, in particular for multinational publicly traded corporations
• Experience in identifying tax planning opportunities and risks
• Able to influence and negotiate, both internally and externally
• Ability to work in an organized, detailed manner under tight deadlines
• Ability to grasp complex issues quickly
• Outstanding communication skills, ability to present complex tax information in simple terms
• Strong team building and people development skills
• Ability to research, read and interpret tax laws, regulations and rulings required
• CPA required and certification should be maintained via ongoing CPE

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About Us

Why Crawford?

Because a claim is more than a number - it’s a person, a child, a friend. It’s anyone who looks to Crawford on their worst days. And by helping to restore their lives, we are helping to restore our community - one claim at a time.

At Crawford, employees are empowered to grow, emboldened to act and inspired to innovate. Our industry-leading team pioneers new solutions for the industries and customers we serve. We’re looking for the next generation of leaders to take this journey with us.

We hail from more than 70 countries and speak dozens of languages, reflecting the global fabric of the audience we serve. Though our reach is vast, we proudly operate as One Crawford: united in purpose, vision and values. Learn more at www.crawco.com.

When you accept a job with Crawford, you become a part of the One Crawford family. And as part of the One Crawford family, we offer  a comprehensive Total Rewards package to  our employees  to assist with their financial, health/wellness, continuing education/training and other needs:

• Competitive base pay

- The Pay Range/Salary represents the anticipated low and high pay that may be offered for this position. To determine the actual offer, Crawford considers a wide range of factors including the candidate’s previous experience and education, market rates, minimum pay requirements for the applicable jurisdiction, business segment, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. 

• Bonus/Incentive Pay and other Performance-Based Rewards, if applicable.
• We offer a well-rounded benefits package that encourages wellness and helps our employees to be an educated healthcare consumer. The core benefits* offered include:

- Medical, Dental and Vision Plans
- Prescription Drugs
- HSA, HRA, and FSA Accounts
- Paid Holidays, Vacation and Sick Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Tuition Assistance
- Paid Parental Leave
- Supplemental Health Benefits
Other Benefits currently available at no cost include: - Enhanced Mental Health Support
- Virtual Physical Therapy
- Caregiving Services
- Life Assistance Program

*The above information highlights some of the benefits currently available to eligible full-time employees.

• Training programs that promote continuous learning and career progression while enhancing job performance.
• Sustainability programs that give back to the communities in which we live and work.
• A culture of respect, collaboration, entrepreneurial spirit and inclusion.

Crawford & Company participates in E-Verify and is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/D/V Crawford & Company is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Crawford via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from Crawford HR/Recruitment will be deemed the sole property of Crawford. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Crawford as a result of the referral or through other means.