Tax Manager

Position Title: Tax Manager
Location: Dallas, TX- Hybrid

Your role Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR) is looking to add a Tax Manager to its global tax team. The exciting role will play an integral part to support tax reporting, REIT compliance, transactions, and investor reporting of DLR and its affiliates as DLR continues to expand its market share as the leading and premier data center provider for its customers worldwide.

What you’ll do
Tax Reporting
• Managing the tax return filings of the applicable entities. This generally includes coordination between compliance advisor and internal accounting/finance team to facilitate the requested information at a timely manner and reviewing the tax returns for completeness and correctness.
• Investor tax reporting on an annual basis, including interim updates on taxable income projections encompassing relevant disclosures to certain investors (e.g., UBTI for tax exempts, FIRPTA for non-U.S.)
• Track investors’ tax basis including Section 743(b) step-up and built-in-gain (“BIG�) on the contributed assets, review investor’s taxable income allocation, and maintain capital accounts at tax basis, and 704(b) basis.
• Manage distribution and tax withholding for investors for U.S. state and local and offshore investor withholding.
• Managing quarterly estimated payments for any tax-paying entities in the structure.
• Computation of provision and accrual for income taxes for corporate entities in the structure.
REIT Compliance
• Ensure subsidiary REITs are operated in a REIT compliant manner including, but not limited to, interim review of new service offerings and contracts, restructuring transactions and hedging transactions.
• Manage quarterly REIT asset test, annual income test and distribution analysis.
• Manage preferred shareholder and common shareholder tax reporting obligations for 1099 reporting.
• Maintain annual shareholder demand letter.
Transaction Related
• Tax structuring including acquisition, dispositions, investor’s exit strategy, restructuring of its existing investments and § 1031 exchange transactions.
• Work with Legal on entity elections (e.g. TRS and check-the-box election, etc.).

What you’ll need
To meet the basic qualification for this role, you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship. In addition, to be a good fit for the opportunity, you will have:

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting/tax
• At least 5 years of partnership tax experience, including public accounting, law and industry experience
• Solid experience with and working knowledge of U.S. corporate and partnership with a focus on real estate industry
• Solid working knowledge of and experience with real estate investment trusts (REITs)
• Ability to communicate complex tax technical concepts to non-tax business teams to successfully implement initiatives
Just as important will be the following competencies and characteristics:
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Solid organizational skills, great attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• The ability to achieve goals and work independently as well as to contribute as a team player

Preferred but not required:
• A master’s in taxation/accounting
• Big Four experience

A bit about us
Digital Realty supports the world's leading enterprises and service providers by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, our global data center platform, gives customers a reliable foundation for scaling their digital business and efficiently managing data gravity challenges. The size and scale of our business puts us in a unique position to offer customers access to 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries and six continents.

A bit about our Digital Tax team:
Our global tax team works in one of the world’s fastest growing and most exciting business sectors. We use our tax expertise and commercial awareness to support and develop an international, publicly listed organization that is one of the largest publicly listed REITs. From participating in transformational M&A transactions to financial reporting, we work together with our global business partners for a leader in the data center industry.

What we can offer you
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.

Notes:
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled. All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.

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