Bridgewater Associates LP

Director, Corporate Tax (Partnership)

Westport, CT
Full-time
$260,000-$360,000
Posted Jun 8, 2026

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Skills

Communication
Compliance
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office

Job description

About the Finance Department 

Finance leads Bridgewater’s financial strategy and serves as a strategic advisor to businesses across the firm. We partner with leaders to translate strategy into financially sound plans, evaluate growth opportunities, and make informed decisions about how to allocate capital. Our work builds financial resilience and drives long-term shareholder value, supported by rigorous analysis, reporting, and controls. We are also transforming how Finance operates , using AI and automation to deliver faster insights and focus more of our expertise on the decisions that shape the firm’s future.  

About Your Role

Bridgewater’s Tax Department is looking for a determined and agile Tax Director to join a team of problem solvers who handle tax compliance and reporting matters, support company transactions, and other initiatives and who is seeking to bring transformative ideas for process improvements. The Tax Director will be a key player in the management of tax compliance projects by pairing solid partnership tax fundamentals with project management skills, will be a subject matter expert on the application of partnership tax provisions to Bridgewater initiatives and will actively collaborate with professionals across the firm to ensure Bridgewater is meeting its goals. Do you have a passion for both professional and personal evolution? Join us !   

You will drive the following responsibilities:    

•Managing federal, state, and local tax compliance and reporting for the firm’s operating partnership structure and other affiliated entities  

•Providing technical expertise , knowledge, and research to address complex partnership tax issues  

•Applying Section 704(b)/(c) allocation principles and maintaining partner capital accounts  

•Knowledge of Section 754 elections and related Section 743(b) and 734(b) basis adjustments  

•Advising on the tax treatment of partner-related transactions, including allocations, redemptions, and transfers  

•Driving tax compliance processes by partnering with the tax team and other stakeholders  

•Preparing and reviewing tax workpapers and reconciliations, including gathering and validating the underlying financial information and tax adjustments  

•Collaborating with third party return preparers and advisors to support tax reporting positions  

•Designing and facilitating tax process improvement projects  

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is 4 days per week at our Westport, CT campus.   

Minimum Qualifications

•7-12 years of tax compliance experience with pass-throughs, partnerships, and corporations at the federal, state and local levels  

•The highest level of integrity and respect for confidential information   

•Strong verbal, written communication, organization skills   

•Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in fast paced environments  

•Ability to communicate complex tax matters to non-technical audiences   

•Proficiency with MS Office, including advanced Excel skills   

•Bachelor’s Degree required, CPA and/or JD preferred  

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a global macro investment firm, founded in 1975, whose mission is to develop a fundamental, cause-and-effect understanding of how markets and economies work—and translate that understanding into insights, returns, and solutions that help the world’s leading institutional investors solve their most important investment challenges. 

Over five decades, we have codified our fundamental understanding into a systematic investment process—integrating human judgment with machine intelligence with the goal of applying our thinking consistently, testing it against reality, and continuously improving decision-making over time. We believe this has created a unique platform for applying AI within our process, positioning us at the frontier of integrating technology with investment decision-making. 

In financial markets—where reality is constantly evolving and outcomes are uncertain—sustained excellence requires continuous learning and improvement. Our culture—anchored in radical truth and transparency—helps us learn faster. 

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Our Culture

Bridgewater’s culture is anchored in the pursuit of excellence—tied directly to our mission. In financial markets, where the base case is failure and reality is constantly evolving, winning requires continuous learning and improvement. Truth is our most essential tool for improvement, and transparency helps us get closer to truth because it places many eyes on our decisions, problems, and mistakes. By understanding reality clearly, we can identify the gap between where we are and where we want to be—and use that knowledge to learn and get better. Our system that supports this way of being is an idea meritocracy, where we commit to finding and rewarding the best ideas regardless of hierarchy.

Operating in these ways is hard. Finding truth and learning through it is inherently a high-friction cycle. It’s possible because we share a few core values: a commitment to honesty, high ownership, deeply meaningful work and relationships, and building Bridgewater as a big tent where vast differences are welcomed. These values create the common denominator that binds us together in good times and bad.

Benefits

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits, including health insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, and other fringe benefits. Find more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website .

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.   

Sponsorship

Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.  

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $260,000-$360,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range.   

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer  