Sr. Tax Analyst

Job Title

Sr. Tax Analyst

Summary of the role:

The Senior Tax Analyst is part of the North America tax team and will report to the Corporate Income Tax manager. This role will be responsible for collaborating with the North American tax team on internal and outsourced direct tax compliance and projects impacting the North America region, as well as perform monthly tax accounting requirements.

The ideal candidate will have proven accounting and technology skills and a general tax technical background, while having a roll up their sleeve’s enthusiasm and work ethic. They will assist in preparing, organizing, and providing requested supporting documentation to our third-party compliance providers, prepare tax accounting entries and account reconciliations, and work with global departments to play a key role in companywide projects and ongoing process improvements. We seek a self-starter who can manage multiple competing priorities.

In this role you'll:

·        Work with internal departments to obtain fixed asset transaction details to prepare monthly import templates for use in fixed asset management software.  Reconcile system reports to prepare and maintain monthly fixed asset roll forwards.

·        Prepare required franchise and other tax accrual accounting journal entries and monthly tax account reconciliations.

·        Assist the manager with tracking, calculating, and timely remitting required federal/state/local tax payments to respective tax agencies and prepare and record associated journal entries.

·        Assist the tax manager with outsourced tax filings.  Prepare and facilitate supporting documentation including state apportionment, intercompany transactions, trial balances, etc.  Effectively communicate, verbally and electronically, with global departments to obtain relevant data efficiently, and timely meet internal and external deliverable deadlines.

·        Assess the current tax systems and procedures for efficiency and work with the team to develop improvements where needed. 

·        Respond to various federal, state, and local tax notices

·        Research various federal, state, and local income tax issues

·        Assist with data gathering for federal and state income tax audit document requests.

·        Work cross functionally to manage and timely meet deadlines pertaining to FBAR compliance

·        Consult with and assist the team on company driven global tax projects and initiatives including tax planning and implementations of newly enacted procedures and guidelines, software systems, entity restructurings, etc.

About the ideal candidate:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting/taxation and/or equivalent work experience

•     Fluency in spoken and written business English is required

•     Minimum of 3+ years of corporate in-house tax and/or public accounting experience.

Technical Competencies:

•     Expert in advanced Excel skills (Pivot, Sumif, Vlookup)

•     SAP S4Hana experience a plus

•     Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

•     General knowledge of tax provisions

•     Expert technology system skills

•     Expert in manipulating large amounts of system extracted data

•   Experience collaborating with local tax consultants on direct tax matters  

•     Experience collaborating with auditors

•   Thrives in a high paced environment, self-starter with “roll up your sleeve” attitude.

•     Ability to communicate issues in a clear and effective manner

•       Career driven with a high level of integrity, detail, self-motivation a