Tricon is an owner, operator and developer of single-family rental homes in the U.S. and multi-family apartments in Canada. Our commitment to enriching the lives of our employees, residents and local communities underpins Tricon’s culture and business philosophy. We provide high-quality rental housing options for families across the United States and Canada through our technology-enabled operating platform and dedicated on-the-ground operating teams. Our development programs are also delivering thousands of new rental homes and apartments as part of our commitment to help solve the housing supply shortage. Job Description The Senior Director, U.S. Tax leads Tricon’s U.S. tax compliance and reporting function across the single-family rental platform, single-family development platform, and ancillary U.S. private funds legacy platform. They are accountable for U.S. federal, state, and local tax compliance and reporting, provision support, taxable income forecasting, cash tax projections, audit support, transaction implementation support, legal entity tax execution, and recurring tax-related management reporting. The Senior Director operates with a high degree of autonomy over day-to-day U.S. tax operations, key deliverables, external service provider oversight, and legal entity tax execution. The Senior Director remains closely involved in critical deliverables while leading internal tax team members and external service providers to support accuracy, quality, controls, and scalable execution across a complex multi-entity environment. They also support the organization’s broader tax strategy, including process improvement, technology, and AI initiatives. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Lead the delivery of U.S. tax compliance and reporting across corporate entities, joint ventures, partnerships, REITs, funds, and related structures, including federal, state, and local filings, tax provision support, taxable income forecasting, cash tax projections, depreciation records, recurring management reporting, workstream priorities, deadlines, quality standards, and control expectations. Provide senior-level review and hands-on leadership over critical U.S. tax deliverables, ensuring technical accuracy, appropriate documentation, issue resolution, and readiness for internal and external review. Lead U.S. tax execution support for acquisitions, dispositions, 1031 exchanges, financings, securitizations, restructurings, ancillary revenue programs, and other business initiatives, ensuring approved tax positions and requirements are implemented accurately. Review and approve the execution of U.S. legal entity tax matters, including tax elections, classification matters, intercompany arrangements, related-party lending considerations, and structural compliance requirements Serve as the senior operating escalation point for U.S. tax audits, examinations, notices, correspondence, information requests, controversies, and related operational risks, ensuring issues are identified, escalated, tracked, communicated, and resolved in alignment with internal controls and senior tax leadership expectations. Identify and lead improvements to U.S. tax processes, controls, automation, data quality, dashboards, reporting tools, and tax technology to improve accuracy, efficiency, scalability, reporting, and decision support. Own the U.S. tax budget and manage external service provider strategy, selection, coordination, performance, service delivery, work quality, and related spend across U.S. tax compliance, reporting, audits, systems, and transaction execution. Lead, develop, and mentor the tax team, building technical capability, accountability, execution discipline, succession depth, knowledge sharing, and a high-performance culture. Qualifications: Deep technical knowledge of U.S. federal, state, corporate, and partnership taxation. Experience across U.S. tax compliance, reporting, forecasting, provision support, audits, controls, transaction implementation, and complex organizational structures. Business, finance, accounting, and investment acumen, with the ability to assess U.S. tax implications on cash flow, reporting, risk, operational execution, and investment returns. Proven ability to lead complex tax deliverables through direct involvement, team leadership, external service provider oversight, and cross-functional coordination. Demonstrated ability to manage competing deadlines, resolve complex compliance and reporting issues, and maintain high-quality execution across a tax function. Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex U.S. tax matters simply and effectively to senior management, business partners, and external service providers. Analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and judgment capabilities. High degree of professionalism, discretion, and ability to maintain confidentiality. Minimum Requirements: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Tax, or a related field. 10-12+ years of progressive U.S. tax experience across public accounting and/or industry, including experience with U.S. tax compliance, reporting, forecasting, audits, and complex multi-entity environments. 5+ years of people leadership, functional leadership, and/or leadership of complex U.S. tax compliance and reporting workstreams. CPA designation required. Preferred Attributes: Experience in Big 4, private equity, real estate, or a private equity-backed company. Experience with real estate taxation, REITs, REMICs, funds, or other complex tax structures would be considered an asset. Experience with tax technology, automation, process improvement, dashboards, reporting tools, and scalable compliance and reporting models. Experience leading tax teams through growth, transformation, process improvement, or organizational change. Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job, including: Frequently required to sit, talk, and hear. Frequently required to stand and move; use hands to grasp, squeeze, finger, handle, and feel; reach, push, and pull with hands and arms; occasionally required to twist; reach overhead; stoop, kneel, squat, bend, and crouch. Occasionally lift, carry, and move up to 10 pounds. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and depth perception. At Tricon, we are committed to creating a workplace where every individual is valued for their unique contributions, experiences, voices, and backgrounds. By embracing these principles, we aim to positively impact our business and the communities we serve, creating a lasting legacy where everyone can thrive. Tricon is an owner, operator and developer of single-family rental homes in the U.S. and multi-family apartments in Canada. Our commitment to enriching the lives of our employees, residents and local communities underpins Tricon’s culture and business philosophy. We provide high-quality rental housing options for families across the United States and Canada through our technology-enabled operating platform and dedicated on-the-ground operating teams. Our development programs are also delivering thousands of new rental homes and apartments as part of our commitment to help solve the housing supply shortage. Not interested in applying just yet? Consider joining Tricon’s Talent Network which will allow you to receive notifications about current and future opportunities with our company. Simply click on the 'Join Our Talent Network' link and provide your contact information and resume and you will be added to our talent pool!