Senior Manager, State and Local Tax - Sales and Use Compliance

At KPMG, you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the world’s top tax firms. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMG’s extensive network of specialists & enjoy access to our Ignition Centers, where deep industry knowledge merges with cutting-edge technologies to create innovative tax solutions. Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through a range of multifaceted engagements, formal training, and informal mentoring.

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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Manager to join our State and Local Tax (SALT) practice.

Responsibilities:

• Review sales, use, and telecommunications tax data received on a monthly basis from KPMG compliance clients to determine if it is in the proper format for input into KPMG's mechanized tax processing systems
• Arrange the monthly data received into the proper tax location codes, tax types, tax categories, authority levels, taxpayer entities, and tax amounts
• Apply client specific business rules to the tax data received from tax compliance clients to modify the data for input into KPMG mechanized tax processing systems
• Once the data is ready for input, process the data for the returns using one or more of KPMG's mechanized tax systems
• Identify, document, and recommend client technological business requirements for sales, use, and telecommunications tax compliance processes, and system improvements
• Design, test, and troubleshoot indirect tax technology solutions developed using Microsoft Access, Excel, or SQL Server

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, or a related field of study from an accredited college/university
• Licensed CPA, J.D., LL.M., MST (Master's in Taxation) or a certified member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (CMI) designation for non-CPA eligible candidates (Please note that any candidate hired by KPMG into this position that doesn't currently possess one of the aforementioned credentials/designations will be required to secure one within one year from the commencement of employment)
• Development knowledge using Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Access, and experience developing in .NET is preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Access, SQL Server, XML, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, or process mapping software and strong technical awareness and basic knowledge of global indirect tax issues
• Strong skills in indirect tax information systems, including strong project management skills, and the ability to analyze client business needs
• Experience in reviewing and working with transaction tax data received from the billing systems of wire line or wireless telecommunications companies or cable or broadband companies, and a working knowledge of federal, state, and local telecommunications transaction taxes imposed in the United States

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