Demo

Sr. Director, Tax Accounting

Blue Shield of CA
Oakland, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 7/7/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/7/2026

Your Role

The Senior Director, Tax Accounting leads enterprise tax strategy, compliance, and specialty accounting across the family of companies, ensuring accurate execution, regulatory compliance, and disciplined risk management. This role reports to the Vice President, Controller for Ascendiun and the family of companies. The role and team create enterprise value by turning complex tax requirements into disciplined execution, sound decisions, and continuity across critical tax processes.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Knowledge and Experience

  • Requires a Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance, or related field; or equivalent experience
  • Requires a minimum of 12 years prior relevant tax/accounting experience
  • Requires a minimum of 8 years of prior people management experience with direct responsibility for supervising, coaching, and evaluating direct reports
  • Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, or other related certification highly desired
  • Prior healthcare or insurance experience a plus

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week. Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.


External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.

 

Salary.com Estimation for Sr. Director, Tax Accounting in Oakland, CA
$261,443 to $325,513
If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution. Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right. Surveys & Data Sets

What is the career path for a Sr. Director, Tax Accounting?

Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs on the Sr. Director, Tax Accounting career path by checking the boxes next to the positions that interest you.
Income Estimation: 
$198,976 - $271,567
Income Estimation: 
$250,557 - $384,186
Income Estimation: 
$289,546 - $405,917
Income Estimation: 
$336,608 - $485,666
Employees: Get a Salary Increase
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles Skills Library

Job openings at Blue Shield of CA

  • Blue Shield of CA El Dorado, CA
  • Your Role The Utilization Management team independently manages complex utilization and retrospective clinical reviews across multiple lines of business, a... more
  • 8 Days Ago

  • Blue Shield of CA Long Beach, CA
  • Your Role The Care Management team is looking for a strategic leader with Care Management experience who can help support our Population Health Management ... more
  • 8 Days Ago

  • Blue Shield of CA El Dorado, CA
  • Your Role The Appeals and Grievance Department Regulatory team is responsible for responding to inquiries received directly from our state regulatory agenc... more
  • 8 Days Ago

  • Blue Shield of CA El Dorado, CA
  • Your Role The Care Management team independently manages complex and high-risk care management cases by applying advanced clinical judgment to assess medic... more
  • 8 Days Ago


Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Sr. Director, Tax Accounting jobs in the Oakland, CA area that may be a better fit.

  • Blue Shield of California Oakland, CA
  • Your Role The Senior Director, Tax Accounting leads enterprise tax strategy, compliance, and specialty accounting across the family of companies, ensuring ... more
  • 10 Days Ago

  • Platform Accounting Group Danville, CA
  • Description Due to continuing growth, our team is seeking a Senior Tax Manager who has an entrepreneurial spirit and knows how to get things done. In addit... more
  • 2 Days Ago

AI Assistant is available now!

Feel free to start your new journey!