Sales Tax Specialist

JOB SUMMARY

The sales tax specialist's responsibilities include preparing all tax compliance, assisting in audits, and responding to tax correspondence

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide comprehensive support to all represented Transaction Data System companies for transactional taxes including Sales and Use taxes, Property taxes, Business Licenses, and Annual Reports
• Demonstrates leadership skills, a comprehensive knowledge and principles of sales and use taxes
• Major areas of responsibility include but are not limited to completing the monthly compliance cycle in a complex multi-jurisdiction environment; participating in sales and use tax audit defense, reverse audits, tax consulting and planning
• Responsible to ensure the organization is in compliance with transactional tax and business license (taxes) requirements while achieving assigned objectives and targets
• Interface with both internal and external contacts
• Timely submission of sales tax compliance data to partners to meet filing requirements
• Provide registration and license recommendations and requirements to team members for processing to keep SOC's in compliance
• Analyze transactions and provide sales tax guidance to internal teams for proper tax classification
• Document, comply, monitor, evaluate and update internal state and local tax policies and procedures and recommend alternatives to ensure compliance and reduce tax overspending
• Recommends and implement process changes that reduce potential exposure
• Identify, communicate, and conduct strategic audits/refunds to recover sales/use tax exposure amounts and overpayments
• Document, monitor, evaluate, and update internal desktop procedures and process maps for compliance activities
• Recommend, drive, and follow through on compliance process improvements to increase efficiencies and reduce tax exposure
• Participate in sales and business licenses tax compliance segment of migrations for new SOC migrations by following established project plans