Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Manage tax reporting, planning and compliance. • Execute tax compliance activities to meet all income and sales/use tax returns filing due dates as required by the IRS and various state/local taxing authorities. • Maintain records and mandatory documentation. Research and respond to notices and inquiries from IRS, state and local officials on a timely basis. • Manage and coordinate tax audits to mitigate exposure. Provide support as required on significant audits. • Accumulate federal and state income tax information into tax software. Prepare federal and state tax returns, related schedules, and reports for review. Ensure all tax payments are made properly in a timely manner. • Minimize tax obligation. Determine areas for potential refunds. • Manage, review and maintain sales/use tax exemption certificates to ensure proper assessment, collection and remittance of sales/use tax to proper governments. • Prepare quarterly income tax provision. Maintain detailed inventory of deferred items with related deferred tax computation. Reconcile book to tax income. Prepare year end calculations for various deferred items. • Advise management regarding audits, effects of business activities on taxes, and strategies for minimizing tax liability. Inform management of legislation relating to tax changes that could affect company. • Manage relationships and interaction with departments of revenue, outside accounting and law firms, and Berkshire Hathaway. • Perform and/or review LIFO calculations, depreciation classifications, adjustments and class lives.

Serve as technical expert on tax issues. 25% • Manage technical resources required to research and resolve tax issues. • Maintain adequate documentation on tax positions. • Maintain knowledge of local, state and federal tax issues including sales and use tax changes and new laws. • Complete continuing education requirements in order to maintain required licenses. • Design, implement and continually improve procedures to facilitate pro-active identification and resolution of tax issues. • Develop training materials to inform and educate non-tax personnel on complex tax issues.

Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field. • 5-7 years professional-level tax accounting experience • State and local tax experience required. • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) required. • Maintain ongoing licenses to practice in all applicable states.