Director of Tax

Job description

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

The Impact You’ll Make

We are seeking a highly motivated and strategic Director of Tax to join our finance team. This role is a critical part of our mission to radically improve lives by leveraging AI, automation, and one of the world’s largest biological and chemical datasets. The Director of Tax will be a hands-on leader responsible for managing all aspects of the company’s tax function, ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and local tax regulations, and developing tax strategies that support our innovative and rapidly growing business.

Please note: This position is a contract opportunity for 1 year. There may be an option to extend beyond that timeframe based on performance and business needs.

In This Role You Will:

• Tax Strategy and Planning:
  • Drive and execute tax strategies that align with Recursion’s long-term business objectives and technology-driven drug discovery model.
  • Establish, implement, and maintain a global transfer pricing strategy for intercompany transactions across our US, Canada, and UK operations
  • Advise senior leadership on the tax implications of key business decisions.
  • Lead the identification, calculation, and defense of valuable tax incentives specific to a tech-enabled biotech, such as federal R&D tax credits.
  • Proactively monitor and analyze changes in tax law, particularly those affecting the pharmaceutical and technology sectors, and communicate their impact on the company
• Tax Compliance and Financial Reporting (ASC 740):
  • Collaborate with our 3rd party tax provider to accurately and timely prepare the filings of all federal, state, and local income tax returns, estimated payments, and extensions.
  • Collaborate with our 3rd party tax provider on the quarterly and annual income tax provision process in accordance with ASC 740. This includes calculating current and deferred taxes, managing deferred tax assets and valuation allowances, and documenting uncertain tax positions (FIN 48/ASC 740-10).
  • Ensure all tax-related disclosures in SEC filings (10-Q, 10-K) are prepared accurately and in compliance with U.S. GAAP.
  • Collaborate with external auditors and advisors to ensure a smooth and efficient tax reporting and compliance process.
• Tax Operations and Audits:
  • Manage all federal, state, and local tax audits, inquiries, and examinations.
  • Maintain robust internal controls over tax processes, ensuring compliance with SOX 404(b) requirements.
  • Oversee the management of non-income taxes, including sales and use tax, property tax, and other ad hoc filings.

The Experience You’ll Need

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required. Master’s degree in Taxation and/or a CPA certification is strongly preferred.

• Experience: 10+ years of progressive multinational tax experience, with at least 5 years in a managerial or director-level role. Experience in a publicly traded pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or technology company is highly desirable.

• Knowledge & Skills

  • Deep expertise in US GAAP and ASC 740 tax accounting.
  • Strong working knowledge of federal and state corporate income tax law, particularly as it applies to R&D activities and intellectual property.
  • Proven ability to manage the complexities of a multi-state tax footprint and international tax matters (e.g., related to foreign subsidiaries in the UK and Canada).
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex tax issues into clear, actionable business insights.

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The Values We Hope You Share:

• We act boldly with integrity. We are unconstrained in our thinking, take calculated risks, and push boundaries, but never at the expense of ethics, science, or trust.
• We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action.
• We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.
• We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
• We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders take accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together.
• We are One Recursion. True cross-functional collaboration is about trust, clarity, humility, and impact. Through sharing, we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.

Our values underpin the employee experience at Recursion. They are the character and personality of the company demonstrated through how we communicate, support one another, spend our time, make decisions, and celebrate collectively.

More About Recursion

Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate one of the world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale — up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly — and massive computational scale — owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion is uniting technology, biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.

Recursion is headquartered in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in Toronto, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, and the San Francisco Bay area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.

Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, local, or provincial human rights legislation.

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursion’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion, and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.