Vistra Corp.

Senior Tax Controversy Manager (SALT)

Vistra Corp. • $120K — $145K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in business or related field preferred
  • 7-10 years of experience in Big 4 accounting focusing on state income tax and SALT controversy
  • Experience in the energy sector is strongly preferred
  • Familiarity with in-house legal and tax operations is beneficial
  • Strong interpersonal skills for effective negotiation with auditors and authorities

Responsibilities

  • Lead SALT tax audits across multiple jurisdictions
  • Manage SALT tax appeals and litigation with oversight from tax counsel
  • Evaluate corporate activities for state income and non-income tax implications
  • Conduct high-level due diligence assessments for tax concerns
  • Translate complex tax advice into actionable insights for business clients
  • Perform tax research and produce concise documentation
  • Train tax team members on corporate transactions and integration

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model
  • Opportunities for professional development and training
  • Collaborative work environment
  • Engagement with diverse corporate clients
  • Potential for impactful contributions to tax strategy
Full Job Description
Job Summary Tax advisor for broad range of Company state and local income and non-income activities including SALT impacts of corporate development projects, power plant and retail operations, legal, treasury and commercial initiatives and tax minimization efforts for all type of taxes.
Lead SALT tax audit, appeals and litigation advisor for multistate income tax, multistate transaction taxes, state and local property taxes and other miscellaneous taxes with oversight from internal tax counsel.
Provides high-quality client service to other tax team members, corporate clients throughout the Company and Company management.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

•Leads all SALT tax audits for all jurisdictions including state income, franchise, sales and use taxes, property taxes, gross receipts, fuels and excise taxes.

•Manages SALT tax appeals and litigation with oversight of tax counsel.

•Capable of evaluating wide range of potential corporate activities to identify state income and all non-income tax consequences and advise clients

•Adept at performing high level assessment of due diligence to determine any key tax concerns

•Able to translate complex tax advice into plain language that is actionable for business clients

•Proficient at tax research and concise written documentation

•Strong advocate for tax positions in audits, appeals and litigation

•Knowledgeable of tax procedural rules of controversy

•Effective at training other tax team members on corporate transactions that have been executed and assist with integration and implementation by other tax team members

•Manages multiple projects and prioritizes effectively to achieve maximum business results


Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements

•Bachelor’s degree, business majors preferred

•Minimum 7-10 years Big 4 accounting, with assignments in state income tax and SALT controversy matters required

•Energy sector experience strongly preferred

•Knowledge of in-house legal and tax operations useful

•Interpersonal skills for diplomacy with external auditors, taxing authorities and negotiations


Key Metrics

•Financial results of non-income tax and closure of audits, disputes or appeals and litigation; good standing of legal entities

•Number of audits and disputes closed per year; number of statute of limitations closed per year

•Timeliness, quality and volume of documentation of tax advice provided

•Number of client relationships and feedback from clients and stakeholders

•Business results from projects (dollar amount of tax positions sustained, financial impact of efficient tax structuring, etc.)

•Number of and quality of formal and informal training provided in the normal course on relevant tax topics and current developments

•Creativity in using tax knowledge to yield Company competitive advantage on taxes

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Job Family

Tax

Company

Vistra Corporate Services Company

Locations

Irving, Texas

Texas

About Vistra Corp.

Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company that provides essential resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine. Based in Irving, Texas, Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability. The company safely operates a reliable, efficient, power generation fleet of natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities while taking an innovative, customer-centric approach to its retail business. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Vistra Energy was ranked as the 756th-largest public company in the world. The company owns the Moss Landing Power Plant in California which currently contains the largest battery energy storage system in the world. In 2016, Texas Competitive Electric Holdings, parent company of TXU Energy and Luminant, emerged from Chapter 11. TCEH was then rebranded as Vistra Energy. Vistra acquired Dynegy in 2018. In 2019, Ambit Energy was acquired, resulting in a 32% residential market share in ERCOT, with NRG Energy as its largest competitor. It also acquired Crius Energy in 2019.
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