Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
In SaaS, tax compliance becomes a strategic function as recurring revenue models, multi-entity operations, and rapid geographic expansion increase complexity across federal and state obligations. This Senior Tax Manager, Compliance role sits in that intersection, partnering closely with tax provision leadership and interfacing with finance, legal, treasury, and other stakeholders that shape how a cloud business operates at scale.
For a SaaS career, the role builds durable expertise in designing repeatable compliance systems that can withstand quarterly reporting cycles, audits, and evolving regulation. It also offers exposure to the mechanics that matter in software companies, including return to provision alignment under ASC 740, coordination with external advisors, and process improvement through standardization and automation. Those skills translate across public SaaS environments where governance, documentation, and cross-functional data flows are critical.
This position fits a tax leader who prefers end-to-end ownership and can balance technical depth with operational rigor. It will suit someone comfortable working through ambiguity across multiple workstreams, influencing peers without relying on formal authority, and maintaining high-quality execution while improving how compliance work is produced and reviewed.
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Job Description
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
As the Senior Tax Manager, you will be a strategic tax compliance expert within Snowflake’s finance organization, owning and driving all aspects of U.S. federal and state income tax compliance. You will report to the Senior Director, U.S. Tax, and partner closely with a peer Senior Tax Manager who leads the Global & U.S. income tax provision process, providing critical inputs, analytics, and direct support for the quarterly and annual ASC 740 process. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-growth, world-class technology company and make an immediate impact.
This is a hybrid role that can be based in either Menlo Park, CA or Dublin, CA.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Own the end-to-end U.S. federal and state income tax return compliance process, including preparation, review, timely filing, extensions, and estimated tax calculations and payments
Coordinate and manage external service providers to ensure high-quality and efficient compliance deliverables
Develop and apply state income tax planning strategies to optimize effective tax rate and cash taxes across all required income, business and gross receipts tax filings
Monitor legislative and regulatory developments in U.S. federal and state tax law; proactively assess and communicate compliance impact to leadership
Respond to and manage federal and state tax notices, audits, and examinations, coordinating with external advisors and internal stakeholders
Develop and maintain comprehensive compliance policies, procedures, and risk assessment frameworks
Act as key partner to the Global Provision Senior Tax Manager, providing direct support for the quarterly and annual ASC 740 calculations
Perform return-to-provision analysis, ensure accurate reconciliation of tax accounts, and support the global tax provision through coordination, data sharing, and review
Ensure all compliance and provision processes are documented, sustainable, and aligned with corporate governance and audit requirements
Research complex federal and state tax issues and prepare technical memoranda; support tax considerations related to corporate initiatives, business transactions, and M&A activity
Identify, develop, and implement opportunities to improve, standardize, and automate compliance processes, including leveraging internal AI tools
Build a trusted network of cross-functional business partners—including Accounting, Finance, Legal, Treasury, FP&A, and Human Resources—to ensure accurate and complete information flows for tax compliance and provision
Mentor and develop a Senior Tax Analyst
REQUIREMENTS:
BA/BS Degree in Accounting, Tax, and/or Finance; CPA or Master’s in Taxation preferred
Experience with Big 4 firm and/or in-house corporate tax department with a minimum of 7 years of progressive supervisory experience
Minimum of 13 years of in-depth experience with U.S. federal and multi-state corporate income tax compliance, including hands-on expertise with complex multistate issues, tax controversy management, and ASC 740 for large multinational public companies
Demonstrated ability to develop a strong network of internal and external business partners
Proven ability to adapt to a complex, fast-paced, rapidly evolving, and highly demanding work environment
Must be a self-starter who handles multiple projects and manages competing priorities with minimal supervision
Positive attitude, eager to learn, and willing to take on new challenges
Experience with Workday ERP a plus
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
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