Senior Manager/Assistant Tax Director - KES

Koch Capabilities, LLC is seeking a Senior Manager/Assistant Tax Director to support our Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) business. This role can be based out of our Wichita, KS, Atlanta, GA, or Plano, TX office.

Our Team

Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a global provider of engineering, technology, and operational solutions that help industrial customers improve performance, reduce environmental impact, and create long-term value. Our diverse portfolio includes both domestic and international manufacturing and service businesses, creating unique opportunities to support complex operations, transactions, and growth initiatives across global markets.

As part of the KES Tax team, you will build and develop relationships across the business to gain a deep understanding of our operations, commercial activities, and strategic priorities, allowing you to apply economic and strategic thinking to complex tax matters and key business decisions. Working closely with Koch's broader tax organization of more than 350 professionals, you will leverage capabilities across various tax capabilities including US domestic and international tax, foreign jurisdictional tax, transfer pricing, state and local, indirect, controversy, and M&A to support business objectives, manage risk, and create long-term value. This role offers significant exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to influence key transactions, strategic initiatives, and business outcomes.

What You Will Do

• Support the Business Tax Director and business leaders to identify opportunities, anticipate business needs, evaluate trade-offs, and develop tax-efficient solutions that support business objectives and long-term value creation.
• Develop key business relationships and serve as a trusted tax advisor while collaborating closely with business commercial teams and capabilities (e.g., accounting, legal, treasury, FP&A, commercial, etc.).
• Prioritize and coordinate multiple projects to support domestic and international tax matters and strategic initiatives, including transfer pricing, intercompany financing arrangements, legal entity restructurings, cross-border transactions, permanent establishment, as well as other commercial transactions and optimization initiatives.
• Evaluate tax consequences, risks, alternatives, and value creation opportunities associated with initiatives, providing decision-support analysis to business and tax leadership.
• Support Business Tax Director in developing internal tax talent by fostering a culture of economic thinking, providing coaching and feedback, and empowering others to maximize their individual contributions to align with PBM.
• Monitor legislative, regulatory, and global tax developments, assess potential impacts to the business, and communicate associated opportunities and risks to stakeholders.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Progressive career experience in corporate/partnership taxation, tax accounting, or tax compliance.
• Understanding and application of federal and international tax policies and regulations and reporting requirements
• Experience prioritizing multiple projects, communicating results and driving initiatives forward

What Will Put You Ahead

• Proven ability in project management; supporting business restructuring and leading the development and execution of transaction implementation plans
• ASC 740 experience
• Experience training, supervising and developing staff and/or interns
• Experience working with corporate partnership and/or international tax compliance
• Experience communicating tax concepts to non-tax individuals

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ).