Description
Title: Senior Manager of Tax
Reports to: Chief Accounting Officer
The Company:
Sunbit builds financial technology for real life. Our AI-native platform helps more people get to “yes” at the moments that matter with personalized offers, transparent terms, and no added consumer fees. In stores, practices and service centers across the country, Sunbit provides a fast, fair pay-over-time option. For everything else, the Sunbit Credit Card delivers a modern, no-fee credit experience managed in a powerful mobile app.
We are guided by people-centered values: Serve Others Before Self, Include Always, Connect Genuinely, Innovate for Good. These values shape how we build, how we support customers and merchants, and how we work with each other.
What makes Sunbit different is an AI-native infrastructure that runs through the full customer and merchant journey. Our interconnected AI systems power instant decisioning, streamline fraud checks with human-in-the-loop safeguards, and enable highly personalized offers at scale. The result is a quick, fair, and simple experience for consumers and merchants.
Today, Sunbit is available across a nationwide, in-person merchant network of 30,000+ locations spanning auto service centers, dental and optical practices, veterinary clinics, and other specialty services. We help teams say “yes” more often and help customers move forward with confidence.
Location: New York Metro (in office 3 days a week)
The Role
Sunbit is seeking a world-class Senior Manager of Tax to join our Accounting team. This is a tremendous opportunity for an experienced tax professional who is looking to advance their career and lead the tax compliance function for a successful, fast-growing FinTech company. In this role you will build out our tax compliance capabilities and work cross-functionally across various departments and outside tax advisors.
What You’ll Do:
- Oversee all aspects of income tax compliance working with internal and external resources
- Review the corporate federal, state and foreign corporate income tax returns to ensure they are accurately prepared and timely filed
- Review all federal and state income tax payments, including extensions and estimates
- Oversee all documentation, implementation, and accounting for all income tax processes, ensuring all controls are being followed and documented.
- Manage and maintain relationships with external tax compliance firms and advisors
- Support the accounting for the income tax provision (ASC 740) including review and preparation of the income tax provision (annual and quarterly) and all related assumptions, analyses, journal entries, calculations, and annual footnote disclosures
- Satisfy information requests from external tax compliance firms for their preparation of federal and state tax returns
- As appropriate, respond to state and federal notices
- Whenever necessary, support tax audits by the federal and state governments
- Support other areas in the company requiring tax guidance, including but not limited to sales and use, personal property, payroll, compensation and benefits, 1099 reporting, etc.
- Identify risks, obstacles and issues, recommend solutions and work with management and outside advisors to resolve issues
- Provide subject matter expertise and informal training to the internal teams
- Assist the FP&A team by preparing periodic forecasts of taxable income, tax expense, and cash taxes payable
- Take on additional projects and duties as needed
Requirements
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- Minimum of 8 years of experience with Big 4 (or equivalent) and/or large corporate tax department of a US or multi-national company
- Solid experience preparing and reviewing US income tax compliance
- Advanced understanding and experience with ASC 740
- Knowledgeable in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- Proficiency in the use of MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to explain complex tax issues to non-tax personnel; effectively communicate with external parties
- Self-starter with the ability and willingness to exercise independent judgment and take appropriate action
- Strong organizational skills to manage deadlines and multiple projects and responsibilities timely and effectively, attention to detail
- Ability and willingness to be hands-on and dive into details
Nice to Have:
- CPA certification
- Master’s degree in business taxation
- Consumer finance/lending industry experience
- International tax experience
The Perks:
- Join one of LA’s fastest growing startups (2023), A Most Loved Workplace, #576 on the 2023 Inc 5000 list, and Forbes Fintech 50 (2024)
- Mission driven + empowered + collaborative
- Competitive pay and stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, EAP, FSA, & Parental Leave
- Newly added HSA and Pet Insurance
- 401K Plan with Matching
- Cell Phone Stipend
- Casual Dress
- Team based strategic planning + Team owned deliverables
How We Pay:
- We believe in paying fairly and equitably based on a number of factors including but not limited to previous experience, relevant work history, interview performance, geographical location, internal equity, and expected level of ownership.
- We are targeting a salary of $170,000 - $205,000 per year for this role
- This role will also be granted company equity via stock options
Sunbit is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to provide a professional & welcoming workplace for all employees.
Recruitment Fraud Disclaimer
We’ve been made aware of fraudsters impersonating Sunbit employees during the hiring process. Please note that all official communication will come from an @sunbit.com email address, through our applicant tracking platform @sunbit.comeet-notifications.com or directly via LinkedIn. We will never ask for your age, Social Security number, bank account details, payment of any kind, or other unrelated personal information during the application process. Our hiring process always includes interviews, either by phone, zoom, or in person, before any offer is made. If something feels suspicious, please contact us at [email protected] to confirm.
We ask that you contact [email protected] only about potential instances of fraud. [email protected] does not reach our recruiting team directly. Your application directly through the posting is the best way to ensure that your candidacy is reviewed by our team. Due to the volume of applications, we will not respond to nor forward emails about your candidacy that are sent to [email protected] directly, and your email about your application will be deleted from our systems.