Tax & Treasury - Senior Director (NY)

 

Position Title: Tax & Treasury - Senior Director (NY)

Entity: KBRA Holdings LLC

Employment Type: Full-Time

Location: New York, New York

Summary:

KBRA is seeking an experienced finance professional to serve as Senior Director, Tax & Treasury, reporting to the Global Controller. This is a hands-on role with broad responsibility for the Company's tax and treasury activities, combining disciplined execution of recurring obligations with strategic support for a growing, increasingly complex global organization.

The successful candidate will own core treasury activities including cash and liquidity management, debt administration, quarterly covenant compliance, banking relationships, and capital structure support. The role will also coordinate the Company's tax compliance and reporting calendar, including the outsourced tax provision, federal and state filings, partnership and corporate returns, K-1s, jurisdictional registrations, and other recurring tax requirements.

Beyond compliance, this individual will help advance KBRA's tax strategy through initiatives such as refreshing transfer pricing, coordinating R&D tax credit studies, evaluating entity and transaction considerations, and identifying opportunities to improve the Company's tax position. The role will also help build scalable tax and treasury processes, controls, documentation, and reporting capabilities appropriate for a company that may pursue future public-market opportunities while continuing to operate with meaningful debt outstanding.

The ideal candidate is highly accountable, detail-oriented, commercially minded, and comfortable moving between hands-on execution and senior-level problem solving. They will work closely with Accounting, FP&A, Legal, Corporate Development, external tax advisors, lenders, banks, auditors, and other partners across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Treasury, Liquidity & Capital Structure

• Own cash positioning and short- and medium-term liquidity forecasting, with clear visibility into operating cash flow, funding needs, and available liquidity.
• Partner with FP&A and Accounting to strengthen cash-flow forecasting, improve forecast accuracy, and translate business activity into actionable liquidity decisions.
• Administer the company’s debt facility and related sources.
• Lead quarterly debt covenant compliance, including calculations, supporting schedules, headroom analysis, certifications, reporting requirements, internal review, and deadline management.
• Coordinate debt-related activity including borrowings, repayments, interest and fee forecasting, lender notices, required reporting, and maintenance of supporting documentation.
• Manage banking relationships, bank account administration, authorized signers, payment and cash-management controls, and short-term investment or excess-cash decisions, as appropriate.
• Support refinancing, financing, and capital structure analyses, including scenarios that contemplate continued leverage following a potential public offering or other capital-markets transaction.

Tax Compliance, Provision & Reporting

• Own the enterprise tax compliance calendar and coordinate internal stakeholders and external advisors to ensure timely, accurate completion of required filings, payments, and deliverables.
• Coordinate the outsourced annual income tax provision, including data collection, review of key assumptions, accounting entries, supporting schedules, audit requests, and documentation under ASC 740.
• Oversee federal, state, local, and applicable international tax compliance, including corporate and partnership returns, K-1s, extensions, estimated tax payments, information returns, and related filings.
• Coordinate entity and jurisdictional registrations and maintain visibility into filing obligations, nexus considerations, tax accounts, and changes in the Company's operating footprint.
• Manage tax notices, examinations, inquiries, and correspondence in partnership with external advisors and internal Legal and Accounting teams.
• Maintain strong controls and documentation around tax data, workpapers, reconciliations, deadlines, and advisor deliverables.

Tax Strategy & Planning

• Refresh and maintain the Company's transfer pricing framework, including studies, intercompany arrangements, documentation, and coordination with external specialists.
• Lead or coordinate R&D tax credit studies and evaluate other tax credits, incentives, and planning opportunities that may create sustainable economic value.
• Assess tax implications of legal entity changes, intercompany arrangements, acquisitions, financing activities, international expansion, and other strategic transactions.
• Monitor changes in tax law and regulation and translate relevant developments into financial, cash-tax, compliance, and operational implications for KBRA.
• Develop practical tax strategies that balance economic value, compliance, governance, and operational simplicity.

Public-Company Readiness, Controls & Process Improvement

• Help build tax and treasury processes, policies, controls, and documentation that can scale with the Company and support potential public-company requirements.
• Support the evolution of the tax provision and reporting process toward a more frequent close cadence if required by future public-company reporting obligations.
• Strengthen debt, covenant, cash, and liquidity reporting so that senior management has timely visibility into funding capacity, covenant headroom, and capital structure considerations.
• Partner with Accounting and Internal Controls to develop audit-ready and, where appropriate, SOX-ready tax and treasury controls and evidence.
• Identify opportunities to automate recurring workflows, improve data quality, reduce manual effort, and create more reliable management reporting.

Finance Partnership & External Relationships

• Serve as the day-to-day owner for key relationships with tax advisors, banks, lenders, auditors, and other external service providers supporting tax and treasury.
• Provide clear, concise analysis and recommendations to the Global Controller, CFO, and other senior Finance leaders on liquidity, debt, tax, and related financial matters.
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships to ensure tax and treasury considerations are incorporated into decisions early.
• Take ownership of complex or ambiguous issues, drive them to resolution, and create repeatable processes rather than relying on one-off solutions.

About You

You will be successful in this role if you possess:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• Approximately 7-12 years of progressive experience across tax, treasury, corporate finance, public accounting, or related disciplines, with meaningful hands-on exposure to both tax and treasury responsibilities.
• Experience managing U.S. federal and state tax compliance and coordinating external tax advisors; working knowledge of tax accounting and ASC 740.
• Experience with corporate treasury activities including cash management, liquidity forecasting, banking, debt administration, and financial controls.
• Experience preparing, reviewing, or supporting debt covenant calculations and recurring lender compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical and Excel skills, with the ability to work through complex financial data, reconcile details, and communicate conclusions clearly.
• Strong project-management and organizational skills, with demonstrated ability to own multiple recurring deadlines and high-stakes deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the judgment to work effectively with senior leaders, external advisors, lenders, auditors, and cross-functional partners.
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT for research, data insights, and general productivity is a plus.

Preferred

• Experience in both private-company and public-company environments, or experience supporting IPO readiness, SOX implementation, or public-company reporting requirements.
• Experience with international tax matters and transfer pricing, including intercompany policies and supporting documentation.
• Experience coordinating R&D tax credit studies or other tax planning and incentive initiatives.
• Experience with financial services, capital markets, ratings, information services, professional services, or another complex, regulated environment.
• Experience with NetSuite and modern treasury, tax, reporting, or workflow tools.
• CPA, MST, CTP, MBA, or other relevant professional designation.

Leadership Profile

• High ownership and personal accountability
• Strong financial and tax judgment with exceptional attention to detail
• Hands-on operating mindset and willingness to personally execute critical work
• Ability to balance recurring compliance requirements with longer-term strategic priorities
• Clear, concise communication and strong cross-functional influence
• Comfort operating in a fast-growing environment with evolving processes and incomplete information
• Continuous-improvement mindset, including thoughtful use of technology, automation, and AI tools

Success in the First 12 Months

• Establish a reliable cash and liquidity forecasting cadence with clear visibility into near- and medium-term funding needs.
• Institutionalize a rigorous quarterly covenant compliance process with clear ownership, documented controls, and no deadline surprises.
• Create an integrated tax compliance calendar covering provision, returns, K-1s, payments, registrations, notices, and external-advisor deliverables.
• Complete the annual tax provision and recurring compliance cycle efficiently, with improved documentation, controls, and accountability.
• Refresh the Company's transfer pricing framework and advance the R&D tax credit study and other priority tax-planning initiatives.
• Improve tax and treasury reporting, automation, and process scalability, with a clear roadmap for public-company readiness where applicable.

Salary Range:

The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $200,000 - $250,000. Offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience, skills, geography, and other job-related factors.

Benefits:

• A flexible hybrid work schedule – Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays in the office
• Competitive benefits and paid time off
• Paid family and disability leave
• 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
• Educational and professional development financial assistance
• Employee referral bonus program

Why KBRA:

KBRA is one of the fastest-growing firms in the global financial services industry. This role offers the opportunity to take meaningful ownership of two critical Finance functions at a point when the Company is continuing to scale, optimize its capital structure, and strengthen the infrastructure required for its next phase of growth. The successful candidate will gain broad exposure to senior Finance leadership, lenders and banks, strategic transactions, tax planning, capital allocation, and potential future public-market readiness.

About Us:

Kroll Bond Rating Agency, LLC (KBRA) is a full-service credit rating agency registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as an NRSRO. Kroll Bond Rating Agency Europe Limited is registered as a CRA with the European Securities and Markets Authority. Kroll Bond Rating Agency UK Limited is registered as a CRA with the UK Financial Conduct Authority pursuant to the Temporary Registration Regime. In addition, KBRA is designated as a designated rating organization by the Ontario Securities Commission for issuers of asset-backed securities to file a short form prospectus or shelf prospectus. KBRA is also recognized by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners as a Credit Rating Provider.

 

 

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