Sr. Tax Accountant

Overview

This role supports U.S. federal and state corporate income tax compliance and ASC 740 income tax provision work within a high-growth SaaS environment. You will serve as a technical tax expert, owning key workflows and SOX-compliant internal controls over income tax reporting, while partnering cross-functionally to ensure tax positions are well-documented, defensible, and scalable.

Responsibilities

• Compliance & Filing: Drive end-to-end preparation, review, and timely filing of U.S. federal and state corporate income tax returns, quarterly estimated payments, and extensions in accordance with SOX-documented processes and deadlines.
• Tax Provision (ASC 740): Prepare or review quarterly and annual income tax provision calculations, including current and deferred tax computations, effective tax rate reconciliations, and related financial statement disclosures. Ensure each step is supported by compliant workpapers and evidence.
• Technical Research & Legislative Tracking: Perform technical tax research and analysis on federal and state tax law changes, apportionment methodologies, and evolving income tax nexus standards. Document conclusions to an audit-ready standard.
• Audit Defense: Support federal and state income tax audits by managing information document requests (IDRs) and partnering with leadership to advocate for and defend established tax positions.
• SOX Controls & General Ledger Reconciliation: Own and execute key SOX controls over the income tax close process. Prepare or review monthly and quarterly tax account reconciliations, including deferred tax assets/liabilities and income tax payable accounts, within NetSuite.
• Cross-Functional Advisory: Partner with Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, and Legal to evaluate the income tax and SOX control impact of new entities, intercompany transactions, and transfer pricing arrangements.

Requirements

• Experience: 5 years of progressive experience in direct/corporate income tax (federal & state), preferably with a mix of public accounting and corporate experience.
• Technical Tax Acumen: Solid working knowledge of ASC 740 and U.S. federal/state corporate income tax fundamentals; increasing ability to research tax issues and document clear, well-supported conclusions.
• SOX & Internal Controls: Hands-on experience operating within a SOX-controlled environment, including designing, executing, and documenting income tax controls, and supporting control testing with internal and external auditors.
• SaaS Industry Expertise: Familiarity with tax issues common to fast-growing, multi-state SaaS companies, including apportionment and state modernization of income tax rules.
• ERP & Tax Provision/Compliance Tools: Familiarity with industry-standard ERPs and financial data systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, Oracle), and tax provision and compliance platforms such as Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE suite or Corptax.
• Analytical Skills & Process Improvement: Advanced Excel skills (pivots, VLOOKUPs, data manipulation) to work with large, high-volume transactional datasets. Familiarity with Power BI, Alteryx, or similar dashboard and data manipulation tools is a plus. Ability to identify opportunities to leverage or automate processes and surface insights.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. CPA designation or Master of Taxation degree is a major plus.
• Agility & Growth Mindset: Ability to pivot quickly when priorities change and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth organization.
• Data-Driven Problem Solving: Proven track record of digging into data to identify tax issues and propose and execute automated solutions.
• Communication & Documentation: Ability to translate complex tax provision and compliance concepts into clear language for non-finance stakeholders, with strong documentation skills for future reference and audit support.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $84,000 - $103,000 annually.

Additional Information

• The employer may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses to identify potential inconsistencies or verification signals based on available information. These tools assist the recruitment team but do not replace human judgment; final hiring decisions are made by humans.