Job Title: Tax Manager
Date: 04/2025
Department: Accounting and Finance
Reports to: CFO
About Us:
SWE Homes LP is a Houston-based real estate and investment company located near the galleria. We have 135 full-time team members and have been in business for more than 35 years. Our company has investments throughout Texas, including homes, land, and commercial properties, notes receivable, leases, and specialty finance products. We offer financing on all of the properties that we sell. We've been consistently profitable throughout our history; we are very conservative with leverage and have been successful regardless of economic cycles and interest rates.
Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Tax Manager to join our dynamic finance team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in overall administration, planning, compliance, tax preparation, advanced tax planning structuring, and reporting, within the real estate sector or specialty finance. This role will play a critical part in ensuring the company's tax strategy aligns with our business goals while maintaining compliance with federal, state, tax regulations and industry best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee and manage the preparation and filing of federal (100+ federal), state, tax returns for the organization, ensuring timely and accurate submissions.
- Develop and implement tax strategies including thorough analysis of tax implications related to property acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and operations.
- Prepare detailed tax reports and analyses, presenting findings to senior management and stakeholders to aid in decision-making.
- Coordinate responses to tax audits and notices, providing documentation and support as required.
- Keep up to date on regulatory changes and interpret their implications on the company's operations, advising management on necessary adjustments and making sure that the company is always compliant with State and Federal Law.
- Work cooperatively with other departments, including finance, legal, real estate operations, outside CPA firms and tax council to ensure seamless integration of tax considerations into business processes.
- Manage advolorem tax protesting procedures and processes. Company and its affiliates own thousands of properties. We file over a thousand protests a year.
- Train, mentor, and coach team members to ensure a consistent work product. Supervise staff members. Review work product for completeness and accuracy.
- Delegate projects to staff and help as needed.
- Maintain a congenial team environment that encourages dialogue and collaboration.
- Exhibits strong analytical ability, critical thinking capacity, and diligently performs assigned tasks with the highest degree of professionalism and integrity.
- Must have the capability to professionally, appropriately and effectively communicate with a diverse group of individuals.
- Must exhibit a high degree of professionalism including the ability to maintain the highest levels of confidentiality.
- Must be able to work onsite, in a dynamic, fast-paced, innovative, and continuously changing environment.
- Must have excellent communication skills.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, Law or other related degrees are ideal. Master's degree is preferred.
- Active Certified Public Accountant (CPA) designation is required.
- A minimum of 10 years of relevant tax experience is required.
- Minimum 5 years of management or supervisory experience is required.
- Significant experience in public accounting is required.
- Experience working with high net worth individual or family offices is helpful.
SWE Homes, L.P. is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, fostering a workplace that embraces diversity and inclusion. We are dedicated to helping families and individuals across Texas find housing opportunities.
Please note that employment is contingent upon successfully passing a background check.