The Tax Manager leads tax compliance and planning, focusing on federal and state tax credits for renewable energy projects, ensuring robust internal controls and documentation for financial and compliance standards.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own end-to-end ITC compliance across Pivot’s project lifecycle, from early development through placed-in-service and post-PIS audit readiness.
- Interpret and apply IRS guidance, Treasury regulations, Notices, FAQs, and other sub-regulatory guidance related to the ITC, including Sections 48 and 48E.
- Monitor and assess ongoing regulatory developments (e.g., domestic content, prevailing wage & apprenticeship, FEOC, continuity requirements) and advise internal stakeholders on compliance impacts.
- Serve as the primary internal point of contact for ITC compliance questions across Accounting, Development, Delivery, Procurement, Asset Management, and Finance.
- Review, evaluate, and coordinate project documentation to ensure a project satisfies federal laws and U.S. Treasury and IRS guidance and regulatory requirements (including Beginning of Construction consideration.
- Review and educate the internal team on capitalization policies and cost allocation methodologies.
- Review and validate project-level eligible basis calculations.
- Confirm cost segregation methodology and supporting documentation.
- Provide formal internal certification of ITC qualification.
- With the assistance of external tax advisors, oversee the preparation and filing of all federal and state corporate income tax returns.
- Manage multi-state indirect tax compliance, including sales and use tax, property tax, and state nexus monitoring.
- Coordinate with external tax advisors to ensure the timely completion of annual reporting cycles.
- Advise on tax equity structures, such as partnership flips and transferability structures.
- Partner with project finance, legal, and development teams to optimize project economics and tax basis.
- Coordinate quarterly and annual tax provision process under ASC 740 and US GAAP.
- Manage complex partnership income allocations and capital account maintenance.
- Provide support in preparing Hypothetical Liquidation at Book Value (HLBV) calculations for tax equity partnerships.
- Establish standardized pre-Close and pre-Commercial Operation Date tax compliance review procedures.
- Formalize a process related to post-placed in service assets that ensures continued ITC compliance and mitigates recapture risk through early identification and escalation of risks.
- Collaborate with Development, Procurement, Legal, and RevOps to close compliance gaps early in the lifecycle.
- Partner with the internal ITC working group to refine SOPs and controls.
- Support external financial statement audit processes and any IRS audit by coordinating and delivering all required documentation and support as it relates to ITC compliance or eligibility, and address any follow-up questions as appropriate.
ITC Compliance & Oversight
ITC Eligible Basis and Cost Segregation Validation
Tax Filings and Planning
Tax Accounting & Provision
Risk Mitigation & Internal Controls
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- Minimum 5–8+ years of experience in tax credit compliance accounting, tax compliance and planning, or project finance within renewable energy, infrastructure, or public accounting.
- Background in tax return preparation and/or preparation or auditing of complex tax provision calculations.
- Strong working knowledge of federal Investment Tax Credit (ITC) structures.
- Experience with tax equity or transferable tax credit transactions.
- Direct experience with ITC adders (domestic content, PWA, energy community, low-income).
- Familiarity with cost segregation and eligible basis determinations.
- Understanding of prevailing wage and apprenticeship compliance under the IRA.
- High attention to detail and strong internal control orientation.
PREFERRED COMPETENCIES
- CPA designation
- Experience in a solar and storage IPP environment
- "Big 4" or national accounting firm background.
Recruitment Agency Notice:
We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however, we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role.
ABOUT PIVOT
Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and
families.
We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families, create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry, and include robust community investment opportunities.
As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work”, we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment, thriving society, and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment. Learn more in our annual ESG Report.
At Pivot, our core values guide our work internally and externally:
· Impact – We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people, communities, and the planet
· Balance – Put family first; work hard/have fun
· Determination – Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge
· Professionalism – Impress everyone we touch, be a team player
· Honesty – Be truthful and transparent, externally and internally
· Kindness – Create an environment where kindness, empathy, and vulnerability are embraced
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION and JUSTICE STATEMENT
At Pivot, we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, rooted in mutual respect, that supports a workforce of different generations, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability statuses, religions, and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building, celebrates each other’s successes, and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.
Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.
EEO STATEMENT
Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.
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