Tax Reporting Manager

Position Summary: The Tax Reporting Manager leads Vanguard's shareholder information reporting function for both advised wealth management and self-directed clients. This role is responsible for overseeing the production of approximately nine million annual client tax forms, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing operational risk, and driving the delivery of broker dealer tax-reporting services across.

This position focuses on shareholder information reporting and client-facing tax form production rather than corporate tax reporting. The role oversees the reporting processes that support investor tax documentation, including Forms 1099, 1042, 5498 to achieve shareholder reporting requirements.
This leader oversees a highly specialized team of managers and individual contributors and works closely with business, technology, risk, compliance, legal, and vendor partners. Success in the role requires strong operational leadership, stakeholder management, systems thinking, and the ability to navigate complex regulatory and operational environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the shareholder information reporting function, including the production of client-facing tax forms and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Manage and develop a specialized team of leaders and individual contributors, fostering engagement, accountability, and professional growth.
• Oversee tax-reporting operations, controls, and processes to ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, international, and industry regulations.
• Partner closely with business, technology, risk, compliance, legal, and vendor teams to deliver successful operational outcomes.
• Lead planning and execution activities for annual tax-production cycles and support issue resolution during critical production periods.
• Drive operational excellence through process improvements, technology enhancements, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Manage complex business processes involving multiple systems, vendors, dependencies, and stakeholder groups.
• Monitor regulatory developments and evaluate impacts to processes, controls, systems, and client service models.
• Resolve complex operational and client-related issues while balancing client experience, regulatory requirements, and risk considerations.
• Contribute to organizational strategy, workforce planning, budget management, and long-term service delivery improvements.
• Present recommendations, risks, and operational updates to senior leadership and business partners.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

 

Required Qualifications:

·       Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required. MBA/CPA/MS in Taxation preferred.

·       Minimum five years general management experience and five years related business experience; three years of management/supervisory experience preferred.

• Significant leadership experience within financial services, operations, tax reporting, brokerage operations, securities operations, or a related regulated environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing both managers and individual contributors.
• Strong operational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to manage complex processes and drive results in a deadline-driven environment.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Strong communication, presentation, and influencing abilities.
• Ability to work effectively across business, technology, risk, compliance, and vendor organizations.
• Demonstrated learning agility and ability to navigate unfamiliar systems, processes, and subject matter.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in shareholder information reporting, brokerage tax reporting, information reporting and withholding, or related investor tax-reporting functions.
• Knowledge of Forms 1099, consolidated tax reporting, and related shareholder tax-reporting processes.
• Experience within the brokerage, securities, broker-dealer, transfer-agent, or wealth-management industry.
• Experience leading process improvement, change management, or technology initiatives.
• Lean, project management, CPA, MBA, MS in Taxation, or other relevant professional qualifications.

 

What Will Make Someone Successful

• Ability to lead a highly specialized and experienced team.
• Strong curiosity, critical thinking, and sound judgment.
• Ability to build credibility quickly and influence across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Comfort operating in a complex environment with multiple systems, vendors, and regulatory requirements.
• Strong focus on driving outcomes while maintaining a high standard of client service, risk management, and compliance.
• Ability to learn and apply specialized shareholder reporting concepts while leading technical subject matter experts.

 

Additional Information

• This position follows a hybrid work model.
• Experience in shareholder information reporting, brokerage tax reporting, information reporting and withholding, or related investor reporting functions is highly valued.
• Candidates whose experience is exclusively focused on corporate income tax may not have the directly transferable experience needed for this role.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this role.
• Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.