Senior Tax Staff Job Description
Senior tax staff
provides overall tax guidance and technical tax related assistance to the payroll and general ledger teams for employee taxes, stock based compensation taxes, property taxes, local and business taxes.
Senior Tax Staff Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Monitor effective tax rate, quarterly and annual SEC financial statement tax related disclosures
Conducted tax research on various federal, state, and local tax issues
Maintains professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, and professional affiliations to keep abreast of latest trends in tax accounting, federal, and state income tax
Preparation of transaction tax workpapers / tax packages
User of SAP/BPC BW and CostPoint and various tax software SaaS packages preferably OneSource Suite and CorpTax
Assist with special projects as needed, including VAT, withholding tax, event, team and player related tax matters
Provide Project Management for the delivery of Tax technology initiatives based on AGILE methodology
Analyze general ledger accounts for items of tax significance
Prepare and file all monthly and quarterly sales and use tax returns, extensions, Medical Device Excise Tax payments and returns, and monthly and
Prepare and/or review individual, corporate, partnership,and trust tax returns
Senior Tax Staff Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Tax Staff
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPA, US
Education for Senior Tax Staff
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior tax staff job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Graduate, Law, Economics, Taxation, Business, MBA, Computer Science, Mathematics
Skills for Senior Tax Staff
Desired skills for senior tax staff include:
CorpTax
Prosystems Engagement
Financial systems
Tax
Finance
Independence Guidelines and Ethical Standards document
Employee Manual document
Corporate Policy and Compliance Manual
Necessary systems and procedures
International
Desired experience for senior tax staff includes:
Must be qualified to sit for the CPA or possess a CPA
Having some review and supervisory experience is a plus, but not required
Demonstrates knowledge through effective communications
Must maintain required CPE credits annually
Bachelor’s in Accounting & 150 Credit Hours Earned
Effective writing and interpersonal skills
Senior Tax Staff Examples
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Senior Tax Staff Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior tax staff. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior tax staff
- Function as the primary country tax contact for business tax and non-tax teams
- Assist with property tax appeals by working with asset management and 3rd party real estate tax agents
- Serve as the point person on coordinating and directing efforts on recurring and non-recurring special tax planning projects including but not limited to acquisitions, dispositions, accounting method changes, domestic deductions and development tax credit
- Manage overall tax audit and build strategy around tax settlement and exceptional agreements with the authorities to mitigate risk and liability
- Preparing gift (fiduciary) and individual tax returns
- Responsible for the preparation of federal, state, local and partnership income tax returns and related work papers
- Preparation of federal, state and local quarterly estimated tax payments and annual extensions
- Assists in preparation of quarterly and year-end tax accruals, including FAS109 and Fin 48 analyses
- Analyzes and evaluates business requirements by working with finance functional team and management
- Preparation of US federal and state tax provision work papers
Qualifications for senior tax staff
- Accounting duties for clients' estates and trusts
- 2+ years of Tax (Compliance, Fiduciary, Individual, Partnership, Research & Planning) experience
- An undergraduate and/or graduate degree in accounting required
- Recent experience in the preparation of complex individual and business tax returns in a public accounting environment
- Income Franchise experience required
- CPA certification and/or JD/LLM, or working towards either
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Senior Tax Staff Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of senior tax staff. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior tax staff
- Coordinate tax audit data requests
- Assist in fulfilling information requests and preparation of work papers related to outsourced tax return filing process
- Assist in the preparation of income tax provision work papers to support interim and annual financial statements, including interaction with the external auditors
- Assist in providing supporting analysis related to tax examinations and planning initiatives
- Serve as a central point-of-contact for Business, Operations and Technology team
- Prepare income tax returns
- Manage fixed asset tax accounting
- Assist in preparation of income tax provision under ASC 740
- Research income tax issues
- Assist in preparation of railcar ad valorem (property) tax returns
Qualifications for senior tax staff
- A willingness to continually learn and explore new opportunities
- Some travel is required, but trips are generally no more than 2-3 days and you will not generally travel more than one month cumulatively during the year
- Sales/Use Tax experience required
- Two years of public accounting experience in tax highly preferred
- Maintain inter-relationships with all areas of the company, at the home office, the partners at restaurant locations
- Minimum of 1-5 years with public accounting and/or large corporation with multi-divisional, multi-state and multi-national structure
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Senior Tax Staff Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of senior tax staff. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior tax staff
- Lead and support tax application roll out projects for Corporate Tax
- Perform other tasks as required to support the tax function of the Company
- Preparing and reviewing tax returns for individuals, S & C-corporations, partnerships, trusts, and not for profit organizations
- Proactive tax research, including examining IRS and various state notices
- Monthly review and validation of data and documents for property tax values of over $6 billion annually
- Monthly review and validation of data and documents for property tax bills of over $100 million annually
- Work with property accountants on property tax accruals, budgets and payments
- Provide efficient and tax cost effective structure of business deals in the region from ITO to OTR
- Proactively identify areas for process improvements and implement solutions to streamline, cash collection, tax optimization, cash optimization and conformity
- Provide continuous review of business operations execution and identify area of tax, contract structure, cash and forex risk for the business and drive resolution plans
Qualifications for senior tax staff
- Acts as Lead by developing and documenting technical specifications and project plans for proposed solutions to business requirements of moderate to high complexity
- Supports Oracle Financial applications, integration points and work based on the impact to the business
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related degree or relevant experience
- Knowledge of accounting principles and financial cloud applications is a big plus
- Identify and evaluate positions that may need to be included for FIN 48 (ASC 740-10) analysis for foreign and domestic entities
- MST/MACC/MBA preferred
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Senior Tax Staff Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior tax staff. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior tax staff
- Participate in Customer's deals negotiations hand in hand with business commercial, sales and finance team
- Reviewing and documenting uncertain tax positions of the business
- Participate in tax policy work including as members of relevant professional or industry boards/committees
- Contribute in discussions and lobbying efforts for tax regulation improvement in line with business operations perspectives
- Manage Tax Compliance process for the business in the region with in house recourse and external country advisors as needed
- Performing technical research and documenting tax plan recommendations
- Preparing individual and corporate tax returns
- Communicate status to the Global IT leadership team and Finance business partners
- Manage outsourced arrangement for sales and use tax compliance function
- Research and advise on sales tax collection requirements, including those related to new lines of business
Qualifications for senior tax staff
- Strong academic credentials – Minimum major and cumulative GPA of 3.0 required
- Desire to travel (avg
- Compatible with virtual team environment
- Presents well (will spend significant amount of time in field or on phone with clients)
- Organized and self-motivated (many projects are one-offs, so less structure to rely on for process than traditional tax/audit practices)
- Helpful Backgrounds (definitely not required!)
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Senior Tax Staff Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a senior tax staff. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior tax staff
- Building out the Tax team
- Tax reporting and accounting
- Prepare tax provision calculations and adjustments
- Manipulate data in OneSource and CorpTax software
- Prepare and/or review corporate tax compliance filings
- Preparation of account reconciliations and remittances
- Support Financial Statement & SOX audits
- Participate in and contribute to attaining overall team goals
- Liaise with business users and delivery team on projects – from conceptualization to implementation
- Work closely with Subject Matter Experts to provide solutions, efforts sizing and functional and design specifications for business initiatives
Qualifications for senior tax staff
- Interested in consulting or tax services
- At least 4 years in Public Accounting supporting Corporate Tax clients
- Experience with US and State Tax compliance
- Prior experience with ERP and finance systems
- CPA and or MST Track
- Must be well organized, able to multi-task, and be detail-oriented