GreatAmerica Financial Services

• Provide leadership in executing accounting and tax-related engagements, ensuring alignment with established internal standards and enterprise priorities.
• Lead the preparation and review of annual income tax provision and financial statement reporting processes, providing technical oversight related to ASC 740 and external reporting.
• Direct quarterly and annual income tax provision computations, incorporating statutory changes and complex legal entity considerations to support strategic tax decision-making.
• Oversee the preparation and review of federal, state, and local income tax returns, driving accuracy, consistency, and timely execution across filing obligations.
• Provide strategic review of tax returns and related analyses, assessing the impact of legislative developments and state statutory changes across the organization.
• Serve as the lead representative with the IRS and other taxing authorities, managing tax administration, controversy matters, and audit defense with professionalism, credibility, and sound judgment.
• Lead the review and resolution of income tax correspondence, including stakeholder management, to address income tax notices and drive timely resolution with taxing jurisdictions.
• Champion quality control and governance practices to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of tax computations for financial statement and external reporting purposes.
• Conduct and oversee complex tax law and accounting research, synthesizing findings into technical memoranda and providing recommendations for leadership decision-making.
• Lead cross-functional and departmental projects throughout the year, providing direction, visibility, and effective communication to finance leadership.
• Partner with management to identify income tax risks, evaluate potential business impacts, and implement practical mitigation strategies that strengthen compliance and reduce exposure.
• Support broader tax operations through indirect tax filings and monthly reconciliations, ensuring continuity, accuracy, and operational discipline.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business operations, building strong partnerships across corporate, business unit, and functional leadership to align tax priorities with organizational goals.
• Review and validate supporting analyses and documentation for tax reporting, proactively resolving inconsistencies and elevating the quality of information used in decision-making.
• Provide oversight of the account reconciliation process, resolving discrepancies and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, control, and process standardization.
• Collaborate with leadership to identify, evaluate, and execute strategic tax opportunities that support enterprise value creation and long-term business objectives.
• Advance the strategic direction, operating discipline, and professional standards of GreatAmerica tax and finance through leadership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Income Tax Lead

• Function as key point of contact for business operations; understand priorities of various corporate, business unit, and functional leadership
• Lead resolution of lessee and customer questions, and taxing jurisdiction issues pertaining to asset tax coding, property tax charges, and system logic
• Drive compliance system development and modification, including PTMS, Epicor and Excel Power Queries and Power Pivots to ensure the team is performing optimally
• Champion improvements within the function, including but not limited to sponsoring and leading strategic property tax initiatives related to development and modification of new and existing programs and compliance related software as well as policy/procedure changes
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness of property tax processes; continually review and enhance quality control processes, identify risks and drive resolution, ensure accuracy and effectiveness of third-party service portfolio administration for property tax compliance
• Oversee account reconciliation process including resolution of discrepancies and identification of potential process improvements and/or efficiencies
• Identify, analyze, and resolve complex property tax compliance issues
• Provide formal coaching and feedback to team members; identify and communicate challenging work that will provide development opportunities; encourage creativity and recognize individual performance
• Track, review, and report team performance metrics to internal leadership
• Monitor team resource needs; effectively communicate updates on resource needs to internal leadership
• Provide outstanding GreatAmerica Experience for external as well as internal customers

Property Tax Leader

IT Support

• Serve as the end‑to‑end solution architecture authority for the enterprise and provides strategic and hands‑on leadership for the Solution Architecture function.
• Lead and manage a team of Solution Architects while overseeing the design and delivery of scalable, reusable, and secure technology solutions across GreatAmerica’s products and platforms.
• Connect product‑level and platform‑level solutions into a cohesive enterprise architecture, ensuring consistency, integration, and reuse across domains.
• Engage across the full solution lifecycle from ideation and evaluation through implementation and ongoing optimization, partnering closely with product teams, platform teams, and technology leadership.
• Work collaboratively with solution architects, technical leaders, business systems analysts, engineers, security, infrastructure, and external partners to ensure solutions align with business outcomes, architectural standards, and long‑term strategy.
• Provide guidance to business and technology leaders on critical investment and trade‑off decisions, balancing near‑term operational needs with the organization’s future‑state vision.
• Shape and translate GreatAmerica’s strategic vision into executable technology and business capabilities, enabling alignment across business, product, and platform teams.
• Research and evaluate new technologies, frameworks, tools, and best practices to improve the quality and efficiency of the technology solutions.
• Foster a test and learn mentality and processes to innovate through proof-of-concept and prototype delivery, enabling the engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions quickly.
• Architect high-quality software applications and data solutions using various products, services, and platforms, such as Salesforce, Azure, API third party and in-house built software , InfoLease and Databricks.
• Create and maintain the architecture artifacts, including architecture reference diagrams and architecture pattens.
• Collaborate with other solution architects and engineers to ensure alignment and integration of the solutions across different products and business domains.
• Partner with engineers in solving issues through scalable solution architecture and patterns, ensuring optimal performance, security and availability.
• Identify and drive aggressive reduction of technical debt.
• Own application rationalization process to significantly reduce number of applications.
• Provide overall direction, guidance, and definition of technology architectures across the product release train.
• Develop business and technology architecture standards, procedures, and policy in conjunction the other solution architects and engineers.
• Lead the enterprise architecture review board and ensure that the solutions are compliant with target-state architecture models, security, risk, compliance and innovative techniques.
• Assist in new product and vendor evaluations, proof-of-concept and prototypes.
• Architect cloud based, application/product architectures with reusable patterns like microservices and event driven techniques.
• Align architecture strategy with business goals.
• Consult with product/platform teams to fit solution designs to enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.
• Conduct research and evaluation of emerging technology, industry, and market trends.
• Lead the refactoring of applications for cloud deployment and building cloud native applications.
• Work on highly complex solution architecture that requires in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized domains.
• Collaborate with product management, business architecture and engineering leaders to ensure progress towards architectural alignment with product goals and requirements.
• Participate in budget processes to ensure objectives are achieved within fiscal expectations.
• Frame architecture decisions in business risk, business value, and delivery impact.
• Act as a steady advisor to the CTO and platform leadership, especially in moments of trade‑off or escalation.

Director, Enterprise Architecture

Full-stack Engineer

• Design, develop, test, implement, and maintain services and APIs
• Troubleshoot, debug, and implement fixes in the existing applications, services, and APIs
• Document and build application code based on best practices and engineering principles defined by our software engineering community and Integration Platform team
• Understand and engage in the broader context of the business “why” and needs behind the code
• Contribute ideas on best practices and process improvements to the software engineering team in GreatAmerica
• Actively participate in design/architectural discussions, reviewing user stories, providing technical solutions and related acceptance criteria and dependencies, sprint demos, and daily standups of corresponding product teams
• Participate in agile product teams to build quality products for consistency, robustness, and scalability
• Deploy, and manage services and APIs in different environments using CI/CD
• Create and maintain automated tests at the integration and unit levels
• Perform peer code reviews
• Present new services and APIs developed to the team and stakeholders
• Answer qualified support calls from users
• Work closely with architects to define processes and technologies to be implemented by all developers
• Determine coding best practices and process improvements
• Enforce coding standards and best practices to ensure only quality code is promoted to higher environments.
• Train, coach, and mentor other Software Engineers and interns

Income Tax Lead

Property Tax Leader

Director, Enterprise Architecture

Senior Software Engineer – Integrations