About the Finance Department Finance is the guardian of Bridgewater's financial resources. We seek to drive sustainable shareholder value by controlling, safeguarding, and optimizing the use of the firm's financial resources. This responsibility is fulfilled by providing strategic partnership, insights, and independent challenges along with the delivery of high-quality financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis while maintaining effective and efficient operational control. To further Finance's impact, the Chief Financial Officer has launched an aggressive transformation platform to enrich insights, improve reporting, risk and control operations and ultimately developing more intimate, influential relationships with business leaders.
About Your Role Bridgewater's Tax Department is looking for a determined and agile Tax Director to join a team of problem solvers who handle the compliance and reporting matters described below and who are seeking to bring transformative ideas for process improvements. The Tax Director will be a key player in the management of tax compliance deadlines and will actively collaborate with senior professionals across the firm to ensure Bridgewater is meeting its goals. Do you have a passion for both professional and personal evolution? Join us!
What You'll Do - Managing and reviewing federal, state, and local tax compliance and related reporting
- Providing technical expertise, knowledge, and research to address complex tax issues
- Preparing and reviewing tax accounting
- Collaborating with third party return preparers
- Gathering financial information and building work papers for tax reporting
- Maintaining the firm's relationships with outside tax advisors
- Designing and facilitating tax projects
Minimum Qualifications - 7 + years of tax compliance experience with pass-throughs, partnerships, and corporations at the federal, state and local levels, and with ASC 740
- The highest level of integrity and respect for confidential information
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
- Ability to communicate complex tax matters to non-technical audiences
- Proficiency with MS Office, including advanced Excel skills
- Bachelor's Degree required, CPA and/or JD preferred
Physical Requirements The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our Westport CT campus.
Compensation The wage range for this role is $260,000-$325,000, inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70% - 80% of this wage range.
