US Tax Senior Associate

The India tax team member primarily supports tax notices, tax audits, sales tax and tax compliance work.

Analyze and reconcile tax notices, maintain notice tracker, coordinate with tax authorities. Must be comfortable contacting tax jurisdictions directly. India tax team will be the first line of contact for all notices, performing basic background work to identify issues and document requests from government to NYC team so they can prioritize issues to be tackled. Maintain tax notice tracker with notes on each notice, help monitor the status and follow up with tax authorities if n\`eeded.

Support audits by verifying invoices, organizing documents, and preparing status updates. Review all ledger details back to underlying invoices/supports from the finance team to identify variance and assist in gathering information (such as pulling invoices). Prepare a summary of status updates, issues or open items (if applicable) to discuss with NY tax team member.

Pull monthly sales tax data, review consistency, ensure filings and payments are on time. Review sales tax transaction details to check that monthly activity is reasonably consistent with prior months data and document any unusual spikes/differences back to underlying invoices from the finance team (also perform rec between accrual vs cash paid amounts). Maintain sales tax tracker where we keep track of manual codes, resale/exemption certificates, and other necessary documentations for audit purposes.

Assist with external tax filings (Corporate, Partnership, W-9s, CoR, FBAR filing and etc.) and prepare quarterly Corporate and Partnership estimates. Maintain tax calendar, process tax payments, and verify documentation. Maintain cash taxes paid file that reconciles back to ledger (monthly rec). Follow up with the government to check on status of open tax matters (such as notices orrefunds).

Join the daily status catch up with the entire team. Extract trial balances, journal entries, account activity reports from Oracle and apply consistent formatting for the team to easily navigate details. Perform tax sensitive account comparison on monthly basis to show how the amounts moved every month (monthly rec). Other ad-hoc projects where we require legworks: such as reviewing invoices for sales tax analysis for Zuora implementation and new building facility invoices, check on State tax rate CCH table for quarterly estimates and rollforward State WHT for tax distributions.

• Undergraduate (B.A) degree in accounting, finance or US taxes- Master in tax preferred (M.A Ideal Requirement)
• 2+ years of overall US corporate and partnership income tax experience
• 2+ years tax compliance/forms preparation experience (1120 and 1065 forms)
• 2+ years of state tax audit/notices experience, including communication with IRS/State regulators
• 1+ years of sales tax preparation experience
• Proficient with office/finance technology (excel, word, PPT, Oracle and AI tools)
• Proficient with tax technology (CCH, one source tax provision, and Sales tax engine (SOVOS/Zuora)
• Ability to identify issues and efficiently communicating open items with managers/teams
• Excellent communication (via email/virtual meetings) and interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team