Senior Tax Analyst

Summary:

Thomson Reuters provides professionals with the intelligence, technology, and human expertise they need to find trusted answers. We enable professionals in the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, and media markets to make the decisions that matter most, all powered by the world's most trusted news organization.

About the Role:

The Sr. Tax Research & Content Analyst is responsible for research, configuration, ongoing maintenance, enhancements, and testing to ensure that ONESOURCE™ applications and offerings comply with tax rules and laws in complex and demanding tax jurisdictions. 

Major Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Represent Tax Research & Content effectively as a subject matter expert/project point person on projects and initiatives

• Develop training materials and provide training/mentoring to Tax Research & Content Associates and Analysts

• Research, analyze, interpret, and document tax laws and regulations over a wide range of industries in complex and demanding jurisdictions

• Anticipate and assess the impact of proposed regulatory developments to stay ahead of changes in laws and regulations impacting applications

• Model and implement support for new tax regimes; implement content changes; complete work within prescribed content deadlines

• Design and execute test scenarios to ensure content accuracy, functionality, and usability  

• Correspond with tax authorities on complex and contradictory matters

• Research, respond, and resolve client issues in partnership with Customer Support

• Contribute to the development of requirements for tax application features and functionality in partnership with Product Management

• Provide recommendations on complex geospatial, tax, and legal issues; understandably communicate issues to non-tax/GIS professionals

Key Relationships:

• Customer support

• Product management

• Development

About You

Essential Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of indirect tax experience; 2+ years of tax calculation and compliance software (e.g. ONESOURCE™) experience

• Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Detail-oriented with an aptitude for analysis and problem-solving including the ability to interpret, analyze, and organize detailed legal material

• Ability to utilize online research tools (e.g. Checkpoint, Tax Analysts, WestLaw, etc.)

• Ability to consistently meet rigid and recurring deadlines

• Superior written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write white papers on tax and/or technical subjects

• Superior organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks

• Intermediate to advanced software skills (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Word, Access)

• Ability to work and learn independently with minimal supervision

• Written and spoken fluency in English

Desired Skills:

• Experience working for a public accounting firm or corporate tax department

• Determination only – Industry-specific tax experience (e.g. Leasing, Hospitality)

• Fluency in languages other than English

Education/ Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Tax/Accounting/Finance is required

• JD, LLM, MBA or CPA/Chartered Tax Adviser and/or focus of study in geography, information systems, computer science, or related field preferred

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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.

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