Senior Tax Manager

About Zscaler

Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital transformation so that customers can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is the company’s cloud-native platform that protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any location. 

With more than 10 years of experience developing, operating, and scaling the cloud, Zscaler serves thousands of enterprise customers around the world, including 450 of the Forbes Global 2000 organizations. In addition to protecting customers from damaging threats, such as ransomware and data exfiltration, it helps them slash costs, reduce complexity, and improve the user experience by eliminating stacks of latency-creating gateway appliances. 

Zscaler was founded in 2007 with a mission to make the cloud a safe place to do business and a more enjoyable experience for enterprise users. Zscaler’s purpose-built security platform puts a company’s defenses and controls where the connections occur—the internet—so that every connection is fast and secure, no matter how or where users connect or where their applications and workloads reside.

The Tax Senior Manager will have responsibility for the Company’s income tax reporting processes and lead the quarterly and annual global tax provision process. You will be reporting to the Tax Director and be heavily involved in shaping the tax department’s tax accounting, compliance policies and processes, while supporting the business needs of a fast-growing company.  The Tax Senior Manager will be an Individual Contributor with some oversight of the local and remote team.

 Requirements

• Prepare the Company’s ASC 740 income tax provision for interim and annual income tax provisions, as reported in the Company’s  SEC Form 10-K/10-Q filings.
• Collaborate closely with the broader finance organization to ensure tax transactions and changes in tax legislation are accurately documented and accounted for under ASC 740
• Lead the interactions with multiple departments to coordinate information needed to prepare the tax provision.
• Develop/enhance the SOX control process and manage the external financial statement audit of the income tax provision and the maintenance of SOX controls
• Drive automation initiatives to increase the efficiency of tax accounting processes and provide support for various company-wide financial systems related projects
• Ensure tax compliance for Federal/State/International quarterly estimated tax payments. Responsible for coordination of tax provision process for multiple entities/jurisdictions at year-end and identifying/evaluating uncertain tax positions and adjustments to valuation allowances.
• Understand GILTI, FDII, and BEAT calculations and analyze the impact to the tax provision and tax returns
• Manage the preparation, review and filing of federal, state, and local tax returns in the U.S. with external advisors.
• Maintain a corporate tax calendar and efficiently manage deadlines and tax information requests for the company.
• Be a supportive and active coach for team members to promote their professional development

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience with a combination of Big 4 public accounting and industry experience
• Extensive knowledge of US GAAP accounting for income taxes;  familiarity with international tax and M&A is preferred
• Proven ability to conduct thorough tax research
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Advanced excel skills required
• Experience in a fast moving, high growth environment with ability to react quickly to unexpected challenges and opportunities
• Good business sense and ability to generate insightful analysis
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with ability to communicate complex subject matter to leadership, peers and other levels in the company
• Extremely organized and able to manage work requirements to meet reporting deadlines
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or Finance required; active CPA license, Master’s degree or LLM preferred

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What You Can Expect From Us:

• An environment where you will be working on cutting edge technologies and architectures
• A fun, passionate and collaborative workplace
• Competitive salary and benefits, including equity

Why Zscaler?

People who excel at Zscaler are smart, motivated and share our values. Ask yourself: Do you want to team with the best talent in the industry? Do you want to work on disruptive technology? Do you thrive in a fluid work environment? Do you appreciate a company culture that enables individual and group success and ce