Tax Analyst

We are looking for an experienced Partnership Tax professional to join our development team. As a Tax Analyst with Thomson Reuters, you will make an immediate impact on how our clients accomplish their work. You will participate in the design, development, and testing of our UltraTax CS product line using in-house development tools. In this role, you will collect, analyze, and prioritize requirements from various entities, including external taxing authorities and internal sources, to provide the most reliable tax software in the industry. 

Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Thomson Reuters offers an alternative career path for experienced Tax Professionals.

As a Tax Analyst, you will utilize your tax knowledge and experience in a unique, flexible work environment, where the focus is on accomplishing goals rather than completing tasks. If you like to have control over your daily work and contribute as part of a team, then this opportunity may be for you. This is a hybrid role, with a minimum of 2 days per week in the Ann Arbor office.

About the Role
In this opportunity as Tax Analyst, you will:

• Analyze tax forms and related laws to ensure our software is current
• Design the client interface, e.g. input screens, in our tax product
• Implement changes to our existing tax software products
• Write and/or communicate design and system flow specifications for software engineers
• Test software products
• Write help documentation and work with technical writers to implement into the software
• Provide assistance to our support team as they assist customers during peak season

About You
You're a fit for the role of Tax Analyst if your background includes:

• Bachelor’s degree required - in Accounting or equivalent
• Two or more years of recent income tax experience, including partnership and/or S Corporation tax preparation experience
• Extensive knowledge of tax requirements
• Strong communication and computer skills

Additional Desired Experience:

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Enrolled Agent (EA)
• Experience with electronic filing of tax returns
• State, city, and local income tax preparation
• Experience with UltraTax CS software

What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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