Sales Tax Analyst

Position Overview

Under limited supervision, reviews, prepares, analyzes, and corrects various returns and reports required by different state and local deadlines and reporting requirements. Ensures compliance with sales/use tax laws through the preparation and review of state and local sales/use tax returns, verification of sales/use tax rates and taxability matrices, ensures Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and determines sales/use tax impact by the review of contracts and acquisitions.

Job Responsibilities

• Prepares more complex sales/use, business license, and other excise tax returns.
• Prepares account reconciliations and payment requests.
• Helps implement process improvements.
• Handles or assists in the handling of sales/use, business license and other excise tax audits.
• Requires interaction with Finance and operating personnel of the business units, and a good understanding of business unit operations and corporate functions.
• Assists business units in correcting problems discovered in audits or by other means.
• Estimates contingent liability for issues, and assists in developing reserve recommendations.
• Prepares quarterly reports to the business unites regarding audit status, and a monthly summary to the VP Tax.
• Helps the business unit structure transactions and new products to minimize taxes.
• Performs cost/benefit analyses of various transactions and structures.
• Documents recommendations.
• May train or provide guidance to Tax Analyst.
• Conducts tax research and documents findings.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited college or university
• 3 years of sales/use and sales/use compliance experience
• Property tax and other tax experience a plus
• Experience with tax return preparation software, general ledger software and Excel spreadsheets
• Ability to implement process improvements
• Ability to work effectively as a team member
• Ability to master general ledger systems
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize
• Proficient in Excel and Microsoft Word software
• Good tax research and writing skills

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

The physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential function to this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Incumbent must be prepared to:

• Move up to 10 pounds occasionally, by lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise repositioning objects.

• Sitting for long periods of time while using office equipment such as computers, phones and etc.

• Fingering and Repetitive motions; such as movement of wrists, hands and fingers while picking, pinching and typing during your normal working environment.

• Express or exchange ideas with others through the use of spoken word, quickly, accurately, and at an easily audible volume, and receive detailed information through oral communication at usual speaking levels without correction, and/or make fine discriminations in the nature of sounds in the environment.

Incumbent is required to have:

• Close visual acuity to perform detail oriented activities at distances close to the eyes, as well as visual acuity to perform activities at or within arm’s reach with skill, control, and accuracy, such as preparing and analyzing data, viewing computer screen and expansive reading.

Incumbent will be subject to:

• Inside working conditions: The change of building environment such as with or without air conditioning and heating.

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