Overview
A senior-level accounting position is available with a salary range of $85,000 to $100,000 per year. This role requires a detail-oriented and highly organized professional with expertise in multi-state tax compliance and financial reporting. The ideal candidate is reliable, accurate, and thrives in fast-paced environments with strict deadlines. Strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and a problem-solving mindset are essential. Maintaining integrity and confidentiality while ensuring compliance is a key responsibility.
Note: This role is not open for submissions from outside staffing agencies.
Responsibilities
Revenue & Tax Compliance
- Prepare monthly reconciliations to ensure revenue reported in sales and consumer use tax returns (e-filed via Avalara) aligns with financial ledgers.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to resolve process variances.
- Prepare and file monthly sales and consumer use tax returns for acquired entities until ERP integration is complete.
- Compile fiscal-year-to-date sales-by-state data (origin and destination) to support state apportionment calculations.
- Monitor annual sales by state to identify jurisdictions requiring new tax registrations (Nexus).
- Serve as primary user/administrator of Avalara’s Avatax software.
- Record and reconcile tax liabilities for sales/use tax and other non-income tax obligations (business tax, commercial activity tax, commerce tax, etc.).
Business Personal Property
- Act as primary contact with third-party preparer for annual property tax renditions.
- Record and reconcile tax liabilities for business personal property and leased real properties (single, double, and triple net).
- Prepare 13-week property tax payment forecasts and submit to Treasury; initiate and document all property tax payments.
- Generate monthly fixed asset and depreciation reports required for state and federal income tax return preparation.
Customer Credits & Unclaimed Property
- Track and analyze unapplied credit balances in trade receivable accounts.
- Collaborate with revenue cycle functions to minimize tax exposure for unclaimed property and escheatment.
Audit & Regulatory Support
- Serve as primary contact for state and local tax authorities during desk reviews, inquiries, and audits.
- Compile revenue, asset, and ledger data requested by third-party preparers for state, federal, and foreign income tax returns.
- Initiate all income tax-related payments (extensions, estimates, returns) and properly document and record them.
- Record and reconcile tax liabilities for state, federal, and foreign income taxes.
Internal Controls & Compliance
- Perform detailed reconciliations of compliance-related balance sheet accounts to ensure data integrity.
- Enforce processes and policies that mitigate financial risk and prevent fraud.
- Compile documentation, schedules, and workpapers for external audits (local, state, federal, and financial).
Collaboration & Support
- Partner with cross-functional departments to address variances or inquiries and implement corrective actions.
- Provide accurate guidance on multi-state taxation of revenue and assets across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- Minimum 3–5 years of progressive accounting/finance experience, ideally including taxation, regulatory compliance, or financial reporting.
- Strong quantitative analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Proficiency with MS Office, especially advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUPs, SUMIFS, pivot tables, text-to-columns).
- Understanding of GAAP application and compliance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with private equity companies.
- Exposure to large ERP software, especially MS Dynamics AX.
- Experience with SQL.
Compensation & Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits with immediate access.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Wellness initiatives including access to financial training programs.
- 401(k) employer match is 100% vested after one year.
- Employer match for Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions for both employee and family coverage, vested immediately.
- Benefits designed to support both physical well-being and financial health.
Location
Not specified.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
The organization embraces and encourages diversity in age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and other unique characteristics.