Senior Analyst - US Taxation (8-10 yrs)

Job Description:

- We are looking for a Senior Tax Analyst (US taxation) for an MNC working on cloud-based tax compliance solutions. They work with businesses of all sizes, all over the world. Headquartered and having offices across the U.S. and around the world.

Work Location - Pune , work from office -5 days -US shift(8pm - 5 am/9pm - 6 am)

Job Duties:

- Works during US business hours.

- Has a US Visa for traveling 2-3 times annually (good to have).

- Prepare, review, and file multi-jurisdictional sales/use, business and occupation, and gross receipts tax returns for monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual filings.

- Manages assignments for pre-cycle & off-cycle work: customer outreach for common issues (frequency; credentials); bulk account administration; special projects; filing calendar change management.

- Manage assignments for critical Prepayment administration (if necessary).

- Serve as trusted resource for critical troubleshooting & questions needed to reduce risk in cycle.

- Ability to research and resolve jurisdictional notices on behalf of customers.

- Communicate regularly and effectively with customers, jurisdictions and other internal teams as part of research and resolution.

- Expert knowledge of jurisdiction's website & taxpayer experience when manually imputing filing information (data input nuances; limitations).

- Reviews statutory bulletins for proactive change management monitoring and other critical news.

- Serves as trusted resource if/when at Statutory Readiness & Review project is conducted (attend meetings; provide context).

- Maintains relationships with Company's Government Relationship team & key jurisdiction resources (where appropriate).

- Perform QA related to sales and use tax content and form changes.

- Identify ways to improve process and/or technology to better serve our customers.

- Work collaboratively with all staff members and management.

- Effectively coordinate, lead, and facilitate meetings, action items and follow-up with cross functional teams and subject matter experts surrounding jurisdictional changes and internal managed incidents that impact the returns operations business.

- Strategically partner with cross-functional teams, including Global Compliance, Government Relations, Product, Engineering, Content, Finance, and Sales to drive project execution, foster understanding and collaboration.

- Disperse project summaries and updates to large distribution groups via email and wiki.

- Attend weekly legislative monitoring meetings and disseminate comprehensive notes to the full group.

- Some travel may be required.

Key Competencies:

Communication and Documentation:

- Communicate regularly and effectively with various internal teams as part of research and resolution.

- Confidently manage state partnerships and be able to lead, conduct and contribute to live meetings with jurisdictions as a representative of Company.

- Display advanced coordination skills, effectively supporting team members across different projects.

- Disperse project summaries and updates via email, wiki and newsletter using proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation. All communication should be clear, concise, and accurate.

- Communication should be adapted and tailored to suit various stakeholders and evolving circumstances

Facilitation:

- Regularly interact with senior management and leaders across the organization to facilitate discussions and decision-making surrounding laws and regulations that impact the organization.

- As a meeting facilitator, you will prepare an agenda, manage the discussion and ensure it does not deviate from its primary objective, provide real time feedback to stakeholders to clarify points.

- After the discussion, you will prepare detailed reports that restate the problem statement, the outcome of the discussion, proposed solutions, participant feedback, potential challenges, and action items.

Relationship Building:

- Cultivate a broad network of relationships with internal and external stakeholders whose support is needed to carry out initiatives

- Build productive working relationships with state, county, and city authorities to maximize the quality of our product

Qualifications/Skills:

- Experience working directly with the United States' State or private Tax Departments to:

- Serve as Power of Attorney on behalf of taxpayers.

- Review and resolve jurisdictional notices on behalf of taxpayers.

- Review analysis of independently conducted research of a taxpayer's indirect sales tax filings

- Advocate as a tax technical stakeholder for solutions that improve a taxpayer's ability to file returns at scale, timely and accurately.

- Experience attending United States Sales Tax conferences and tradeshows.

- 2-3 years' experience working during United States business hours.

- Transactional Tax Expertise, with emphasis around transactional tax complexities from a jurisdiction administration standpoint including:

- Standard reporting requirements across states.

- Notice generating activities.

- Red Flags for Audits.

- Communication strategies.

- Employment history working with a Big 4 Accounting Firm or large corporate tax department of a multinational company.

- Excellent written and verbal interpersonal communication skills, with demonstrated success building relationships with United States Tax Department stakeholders (Collections, Customer Support, Audit, Legal).

- Minimum of 8 years of related experience with a bachelor's degree; or minimum 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with minimum 3 years' experience; or equivalent experience.

Preferred Skills:

- Deep understanding of user platform features related to jurisdiction (nexus; exemptions; marketplace; rules; filing calendars; reporting; transactions).

- Reviews internal product enhancement requests related to jurisdiction (forms, automation, user interface, platform functions) & collaborates with Product Management team when help needed to define requirements.

- Basic overall knowledge and understanding of transaction flow across the business and subsequent impacts to returns preparation and filing (advanced knowledge is a plus).

- Content

- Transaction Tax Calculation

- Transaction Data Flow

- Returns Mapping

- Returns Filing Automation