Tax Manager

Who We Are The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future. To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets. #LongLiveDogs What We Stand For and Where You’ll Come In The Farmer’s Dog is looking for an experienced and self-directed Tax Manager to join our team. Reporting into the Senior Manager, Tax - this person will  own the full lifecycle of the tax compliance and provision function — from the monthly close process and income tax provision to the preparation and filing of various tax returns, including corporate income, sales, and gross receipts taxes — as well as audit defense and the day-to-day relationship with our external tax advisors.   If you’re someone who can not only own core compliance but also act as a thought partner in designing processes, driving efficiencies, and leading tax initiatives across the organization - this role is for you!. One Team: We don’t think of ourselves as “Acquisition Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”. Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter. We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact. We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms/Zooms to solve problems holistically. We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing:   Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own. We proactively source input. We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems. We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions:   We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is.  We ensure our strategy sets prospective and new customers up for success and drives long-term retention.  We answer questions and address problems early and proactively.  We understand the value of different channels, initiatives, and messages and know how to articulate impact and advocate for prioritization holistically. We Execute For Impact: We don’t subscribe to “best practices” or “industry KPIs”. We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be. Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. acquisition is hyper-focused on improving customer retention and experience. We Are Focused and Work Without Assumption : We are not beholden to ideas. We have goals and believe everything beyond that is a series of hypotheses to validate. To that end, we seek to work in sequence and not in parallel. We constantly ask ourselves, “what’s the most important hypothesis I should be working on right now? How do I confirm or reject that hypothesis as fast as possible?”. We rarely have timelines/deadlines and are constantly taking in new information and adjusting our priorities accordingly. We don’t expect to be perfect the first time. How You'll Make An Impact Own the quarterly and annual ASC 740 income tax provision process in partnership with our external tax advisors, including the preparation and review of supporting workpapers, financial statement footnotes, and internal memos. Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual tax close process, including the preparation of accruals, booking of tax-related journal entries, preparation of reconciliations, and review of the general ledger for accuracy of tax-related transactions. Drive the preparation and filing of all tax returns — sales tax and gross receipts tax on a monthly and quarterly basis, annual return extensions, quarterly income tax payments, and final federal, state, and local income tax returns — including maintenance of the tax calendar to ensure timely filing throughout the year. Spearhead audit defense and tax controversy, independently managing responses, communications, and resolution for audits and notices from federal, state, and local taxing authorities. Manage the day-to-day relationship with our external tax advisors to ensure accurate, timely, and cost-effective completion of all compliance, provision, and advisory work. Serve as a trusted point of contact for tax questions across the organization, independently conducting research and developing well-supported conclusions on complex issues. Lead value-adding tax planning and process improvement projects end-to-end, from scoping through implementation. Act as a thought partner in designing the tax function’s processes and systems, building scalable procedures and leveraging data and AI to thoughtfully drive efficiencies across department operations. Support tax strategy initiatives and general tax department administration, including vendor invoices and contracts, the department’s shared inbox, and coordination of meetings. We're Excited About You Because You have 5+ y