Vice President, Tax

The Vice President, Tax serves as NWN’s senior tax executive, responsible for leading the company’s tax strategy, compliance, planning, and risk management activities. Reporting to the CFO, this role partners closely with executive leadership and private equity sponsors to optimize cash flow, support acquisition-driven growth, maximize enterprise value, and ensure regulatory compliance. The VP, Tax oversees all aspects of federal, state, local, telecommunications, and indirect taxation, while leading tax-related activities for mergers, acquisitions, financing transactions, and strategic initiatives. This leader combines deep technical expertise with a value-creation mindset to build a scalable tax function that supports business growth, minimizes risk, and enables future recapitalization and exit opportunities.

• Develop and execute the enterprise tax strategy in alignment with corporate objectives, the private equity investment thesis, acquisition-driven growth, and long-term value creation goals.
• Serve as the principal tax advisor to the CFO, CEO, executive leadership team, Board of Directors, and private equity sponsors on strategic investments, financing activities, restructurings, and other business decisions.
• Drive tax planning and optimization initiatives that improve after-tax cash flow, optimize the effective tax rate, maximize available tax attributes, and support enterprise value creation.
• Oversee federal, state, local, telecommunications, and communications tax compliance, including sales and use taxes, excise taxes, USF obligations, E911 assessments, and other industry-specific requirements.
• Ensure accurate taxability determinations for cloud communications, managed services, connectivity, VoIP, hosted solutions, hardware, software, and subscription-based offerings.
• Lead the tax workstream for acquisitions and strategic transactions, including due diligence, structuring, risk assessment, purchase accounting considerations, and communication of tax opportunities and exposures.
• Direct post-acquisition tax integration, including process harmonization, compliance alignment, systems integration, internal controls, legal entity consolidation, and development of repeatable integration playbooks.
• Lead indirect tax strategy and operations, including nexus reviews, registrations, exemption certificates, tax collection and remittance, tax engine governance, audits, and process improvements.
• Oversee tax accounting and financial reporting in partnership with the Corporate Controller, including income tax provisions, deferred taxes, uncertain tax positions, disclosures, forecasting, and auditor coordination.
• Transform and scale the tax function by implementing automation and tax technology, improving operating efficiency, standardizing processes, and building capabilities that support organic and acquisition-driven growth.
• Establish the enterprise tax risk and governance framework, including internal controls, audit defense, regulatory inquiry management, documentation standards, and proactive identification and remediation of tax exposures.
• Build and lead a high-performing tax organization, develop talent, manage external advisors and technology providers, and foster effective partnerships across Finance, Legal, Corporate Development, Revenue Operations, Product Management, Billing, Sales, and IT.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.