Sr. Manager Sales and Use Tax

Position Title:  Senior Manager, Sales and Use Tax
Location: Dallas, TX - Hybrid

Your role 

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR) is looking to add a Senior Manager, Sales and Use Tax to its global tax team. The exciting role will play an integral part to indirect transaction tax transformation within Digital Realty.  

What you’ll do

•    Partner with DLR Tax leadership on identifying process improvement initiatives. Takes the lead in implementing agreed on initiatives. Examples of such initiatives include projects to streamline processes for the company’s exemption documentation collection and issuance and refreshing the documentation on established or required basis. Also interfaces with other members of the Tax team concerning improvement initiatives.
•    Liaison with internal cross-functional teams to develop integrated exemption documentation compliance to facilitate overall sales and use tax compliance and audit defense processes.
•    Works with indirect tax leadership and assigned business leaders concerning collection of customer exemption documentation and issuance of vendor exemption documentation, review and approval of customer tax credits, and the related documentation retention.
•    Manage activities of functional area through first level managers and specialist individual contributors. Assists with the development of group, function, department goals, performance standards / metrics. Accountable for customer satisfaction, programs, products, employees for assigned area of responsibility.
•    Researching exemption documentation requirements as needed, special projects, new acquisitions, and coordinating with Tax Leadership.
•    Maintains current and accurate exemption documentation SOPs.
•    Responsible for meeting all required deadlines. Maintains current knowledge of tax laws affecting the company. Assists in tax audits and other duties as determined relating to the exemption documentation function.
•    Partner with indirect tax audit team concerning exemption documentation supporting audit defense and incorporating identified and agreed upon improvements within the exemption documentation processes, including updating customer account tax class.
•    Identify process improvements for the exemption documentation team, and work with colleagues to achieve consensus and implement quantitative and qualitative material improvements.
•    Conduct in-depth research of state and local tax regulations and policies, assist in taxability matrices updates.
•    Review tax clauses in customer and supplier contracts and provide recommendations to internal business teams.
•    Respond to taxability questions from internal and external customers.
•    Other projects as identified by Tax leadership.

What you’ll need
To meet the basic qualification for this role, you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship. In addition, to be a good fit for the opportunity, you will have:
•    8+ years combined sales tax return prep, sales tax research, and sales tax audit experience, with at least 2 years’ experience in the real estate industry
•    Demonstrated knowledge of sales and use tax from a nationwide level, including home rule jurisdictions 
•    8+ years accounting experience
•    5+ years sales tax documentation experience
•    8+years management experience

Just as important will be the following competencies and characteristics:
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills
•    Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
•    Solid organizational skills, great attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
•    The ability to achieve goals and work independently as well as to contribute as a team player
•    Demonstrated competency with tax research software and tools (e.g. CCH, RIA Checkpoint, Bloomberg, TTR)

Preferred but not required:
•    A master’s in taxation/accounting
•    Big Four experience
•    Demonstrated competency with Oracle ERPs 
•    Demonstrated competency in Accounting, including JEs, P&L, B/S, and A/R impacts

A bit about us 
Digital Realty supports the world's leading enterprises and service providers by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, our global data center platform, gives customers a reliable foundation for scaling their digital business and efficiently managing data gravity challenges. The size and scale of our business puts us in a unique position to offer customers access to 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries and six continents.