Tax Collection Manager - City of Birmingham

Location: Merit System

TARGET CLOSE DATE

10/16/2026

PAY GRADE

Grade 36

TYPE

Full time

JOB SUMMARY

The City of Birmingham is seeking a well-qualified Tax Collection Manager. This role performs work that involves the planning, organizing, and directing the collection of various revenue sources (e.g., ad valorem tax, property tax, condemnation revenue) for the City. Employees in this position maintain relationships with financial institutions (i.e., banks) to protect assets, administer a departmental budget, and oversee the distribution of collected funds to various agencies (e.g., State of Alabama, Jefferson County, Board of Education).

Tax Collection Managers are upper-level supervisors with a large number of subordinates (e.g., Redemption Coordinators, Land Specialists, Sr. Land Specialists, Tax Agents) and are responsible for assigning and distributing work, monitoring work progress, providing feedback, and creating/revising departmental policies and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable regulations and standards.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

The City of Birmingham provides competitive pay and comprehensive benefit packages to include medical and dental insurance, employer-sponsored retirement plan (pension), generous paid holidays, sick and vacation leave, and more. The pay range for this job is presented below:

$98,508 - $152,838

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• The following are job-related qualifications that are required for employment consideration for this position:
• Bachelor's degree or higher in accounting or finance or a business-related degree with at least 18 semester hours in accounting, finance, tax law, or a combination of coursework from these three disciplines.
• Experience with municipal/governmental tax collections.
• Experience supervising employees in a taxation or accounting environment to include training employees, reviewing work, giving performance appraisals, and approving time off.
• Experience interpreting and applying case law, state codes, or legal opinions related to tax law or changes in tax law (e.g., reviewing for relevancy, explaining to the public, using tax codes to make decisions).
• Experience balancing and reconciling accounts (i.e., reviewing financial data or reports against other financial information, finding discrepancies, and balancing).
• Experience managing, developing, or providing input to create a budget to include gathering historic information and cost estimates.
• Experience creating financial reports and providing recommendations based on the financial information (e.g., trends, ways to save money).
• Additional Locations: Birmingham