About the Role
Leads Tricon’s U.S. tax compliance and reporting function across the single-family rental platform, single-family development platform, and ancillary U.S. private funds legacy platform. Accountable for U.S. federal, state, and local tax compliance and reporting, provision support, taxable income forecasting, cash tax projections, audit support, transaction implementation support, legal entity tax execution, and recurring tax-related management reporting. Operates with a high degree of autonomy over day-to-day U.S. tax operations, key deliverables, external service provider oversight, and legal entity tax execution. Supports the organization’s broader tax strategy, including process improvement, technology, and AI initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of U.S. tax compliance and reporting across corporate entities, joint ventures, partnerships, REITs, funds, and related structures.
- Provide senior-level review and hands-on leadership over critical U.S. tax deliverables.
- Lead U.S. tax execution support for acquisitions, dispositions, 1031 exchanges, financings, securitizations, restructurings, ancillary revenue programs, and other business initiatives.
- Review and approve the execution of U.S. legal entity tax matters.
- Serve as the senior operating escalation point for U.S. tax audits, examinations, notices, correspondence, information requests, controversies, and related operational risks.
- Identify and lead improvements to U.S. tax processes, controls, automation, data quality, dashboards, reporting tools, and tax technology.
- Own the U.S. tax budget and manage external service provider strategy, selection, coordination, performance, service delivery, work quality, and related spend.
- Lead, develop, and mentor the tax team, building technical capability, accountability, execution discipline, succession depth, knowledge sharing, and a high-performance culture.
Requirements
- Deep technical knowledge of U.S. federal, state, corporate, and partnership taxation.
- Experience across U.S. tax compliance, reporting, forecasting, provision support, audits, controls, transaction implementation, and complex organizational structures.
- Business, finance, accounting, and investment acumen, with the ability to assess U.S. tax implications on cash flow, reporting, risk, operational execution, and investment returns.
- Proven ability to lead complex tax deliverables through direct involvement, team leadership, external service provider oversight, and cross-functional coordination.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing deadlines, resolve complex compliance and reporting issues, and maintain high-quality execution across a tax function.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex U.S. tax matters simply and effectively to senior management, business partners, and external service providers.
- Analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and judgment capabilities.
- High degree of professionalism, discretion, and ability to maintain confidentiality.
Skills
- U.S. federal taxation
- U.S. state taxation
- Corporate taxation
- Partnership taxation
- U.S. tax compliance
- U.S. tax reporting
- Tax forecasting
- Tax provision support
- Tax audits
- Tax controls
- Transaction implementation
- Complex organizational structures
- Process improvement
- Tax technology
- AI initiatives
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10-12+ years of progressive U.S. tax experience across public accounting and/or industry
- 5+ years of people leadership, functional leadership, and/or leadership of complex U.S. tax compliance and reporting workstreams
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Tax, or a related field
- CPA designation required
About the Company
- Tricon is an owner, operator and developer of single-family rental homes in the U.S. and multi-family apartments in Canada.
- Our commitment to enriching the lives of our employees, residents and local communities underpins Tricon’s culture and business philosophy.
- We provide high-quality rental housing options for families across the United States and Canada through our technology-enabled operating platform and dedicated on-the-ground operating teams.
- Our development programs are also delivering thousands of new rental homes and apartments as part of our commitment to help solve the housing supply shortage.
Equal Opportunity
- At Tricon, we are committed to creating a workplace where every individual is valued for their unique contributions, experiences, voices, and backgrounds. By embracing these principles, we aim to positively impact our business and the communities we serve, creating a lasting legacy where everyone can thrive.
