State & Local Tax Sr. Manager
AuditFriendly Careers • Melbourne, Florida • Full Time • $101,000–$165,000 / year
Posted on Tue, Sep 29, 2026
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State & Local Tax Sr. Manager_ Melbourne, FL _Full-Time(FTE)_Direct Hire
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Position: State & Local Tax Sr. Manager
Location: Melbourne, FL
Base Salary : $101,000 to $165,000 + Best-In-Class Benefits
Relocation Assistance Available: Yes
Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off
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Essential Functions:
- Support the quarterly and annual income tax provision process for the state and local tax function, ensuring compliance with ASC 740. This entails meticulously preparing and reviewing various key deliverables and processes, including:
- Taking full ownership of the timing and scheduling of all state tax deliverables to ensure prompt delivery of all required provision calculations.
- Calculating blended current and deferred state tax rates using up-to-date apportionment data and effective statutory tax rates.
- Forecasting state permanent and temporary modifications, such as interest limitations, U.S. international modifications, depreciation modifications.
- Tracking and forecasting state attribute generation, utilization, and realizability assessments, encompassing credits, loss carryforwards and interest carryforwards.
- Analyzing state FIN48 tax accruals and providing recommendations as necessary.
- Reconciling and validating state income tax payable/receivable accounts as well as state deferred tax asset/liability accounts.
- Ensuring full compliance with all pertinent SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) requirements.
- Oversee, review, and ensure the timely and accurate filing of all state and local income tax returns which are prepared both in-house and co-sourced.
- Prepare and review the calculation of state estimated tax payments and extension filings, ensuring all appropriate payments are timely made and accurately reflected in the CorpTax Calendar.
- Monitor state and local tax laws impacting the company, interpret their implications to L3Harris, and effectively communicate the impacts to the Tax leadership team. Implement planning strategies, if necessary, to mitigate risks and uphold compliance standards.
- Research, analyze and document a wide range of income and franchise tax issues and implications, including, nexus considerations, apportionment methodology, and combined filings.
- Manage all state tax controversy matters, including examinations, audit defense planning, notice responses, and VDA projects.
- Support and implement strategic planning to meet the company’s tax profile objectives.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's with 12 years prior state/local income tax experience, Graduate Degree with 10 years prior state/local income tax experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 16 years of prior related experience.
Candidate Details:
- 10+ to 15 years experience
- Seniority Level - Mid-Senior
- Minimum Education - Bachelor's Degree
- Willingness to Travel - Occasionally
Ideal Candidate:
- Candidate needs to be comfortable being overseeing a team and getting into the weeds/doing the tactical work as well
- Private company experience is important than public accounting
- A&D industry, manufacturing, industrial, etc is ideal, but needs to have experience with a larger company
- Candidate should be specialized in state income tax, not federal
- ASC740 general knowledge
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