Property Tax Manager
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Progress Residential® is the largest providers of high-quality, single-family rental homes in the United States. With more than 90,000 homes across some of the fastest-growing markets, our residents appreciate the flexibility, freedom, and convenience of living in a single-family home without the obligations of home ownership.
Progress is committed to making the home rental process easy and enjoyable for the residents we serve by empowering our team members and investing in innovative systems and technology. Our portfolio has continued to grow substantially the past few years and we see increasing demand for professionally managed single-family rental homes and anticipate continued growth.
Employment with Progress Residential is conditional on a satisfactory background and drug screen.
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Position Summary:
The Property Tax Manager – Strategic Operations plays a critical role in managing and optimizing the property tax position of a national portfolio of single-family rental (SFR) homes. As part of the Strategic Operations team within a REIT structure, this role focuses on underwriting property taxes during acquisitions, forecasting tax exposure, and developing cost-efficient tax strategies. The position ensures accurate property tax budgeting, supports long-term portfolio valuation, and drives operational efficiencies across jurisdictions.
Essential Functions:
Assist in the management of underwritten property taxes for single-family home acquisitions, using jurisdiction-specific assessment rules and historical comps. Collaboration in the development of streamline models to project tax liabilities over asset hold periods and incorporate into acquisition pro formas. As well as review and approve property tax pro-rations on new acquisitions and continue to maintain and track the taxes paid through our true-up period on all bulk portfolio deals
Evaluate millage rates, market trends, reassessment triggers, and potential exemptions to assess long-term tax exposure. Identify risk concentrations (e.g., high exposure markets, rapidly escalating assessed values) and recommend mitigations.
Lead initiatives to reduce the REIT’s overall property tax liability through exemptions, abatements, and appeals. Monitor legislative and policy changes that may impact property tax treatment of SFR assets in key markets. Develop a strategy for managing reassessment risk, especially in states with frequent or unpredictable valuation cycles. Oversee the management of a centralized system for tracking tax assessments, billing cycles, deadlines, and appeal windows across multiple states/counties.
Ensure timely payment and compliance with tangible personal property taxes with all local jurisdiction obligations. Coordinate with 3rd party vendors to oversee the filing of tangible personal property taxes where applicable, resolve tax disputes, in collaboration with external consultants or legal counsel
Work closely with Acquisitions, Finance, Asset Management, and Legal to support REIT’s strategic goals.
Provide underwriting guidance and property tax input during acquisition due diligence and asset disposition.
Partner with technology teams to improve data workflows, automation, and tax forecasting tools.
Prepare regular reporting on tax exposure, budgeting variances, cash flow reporting, capital markets reporting, and jurisdictional trends to provide to multiple stakeholders and Sr. Leadership team.
Coach and mentor team members to support their professional growth and career progression and provide constructive feedback to enhance individual and team effectiveness.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Real Estate, or related field. 10+ years of combined property tax experience in real and tangible personal property, ideally within a REIT, real estate investment firm, or large-scale SFR operator.
Strong understanding of property tax assessment methodologies, especially as applied to single-family residential properties.
Proven experience with the understanding of real estate acquisitions with a focus on tax implications.
Knowledge of state-by-state property tax structures, especially in high-volume SFR markets (e.g., TX, FL, GA, AZ, NC)
Strong Excel modeling skills; familiarity with Yardi, iTAM, Mainstay Tax Portals, or real estate tax software preferred. Exceptional organizational, analytical, and communication skills.
Ability to manage competing deadlines across a large, geographically dispersed portfolio.
What you can expect from us:
Progress Residential® offers all the financial and non-financial incentives you would expect from an innovative real estate investment and management firm:
In addition to outstanding training, we host quarterly summits and town hall meetings to encourage growth, knowledge sharing and a good time. After all, it’s about progress, not perfection.
We offer competitive compensation, including a performance-based bonus.
Our generous benefits package includes comprehensive healthcare coverage for you and your family, parental leave, paid time off, 401k match, 10 paid holidays and much more.
Closing Statement:
This summary is not an all-inclusive description of job duties. Other job duties and responsibilities may also be assigned by the incumbent’s supervisor at any time based upon Company need.
Progress Residential® is a proud Equal Opportunity employer, m/f/d/v.