Sr. Tax/Legal Analyst, Indirect Tax

Posted:
11/12/2024, 4:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Texas, United States ⋅ District of Columbia, United States ⋅ Michigan, United States ⋅ Illinois, United States ⋅ Frisco, Texas, United States ⋅ Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States ⋅ Washington, District of Columbia, United States ⋅ Chicago, Illinois, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Legal & Compliance

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Summary:

The Senior Tax Analyst, Indirect Tax is responsible for research, configuration, ongoing maintenance, and testing to ensure that ONESOURCE™ applications and offerings comply with indirect tax rules and laws in complex and demanding tax jurisdictions. 

About the Role:

Major Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

  • Represent Tax Research & Content effectively as a subject matter expert/project point person on projects and initiatives

  • Develop training materials and provide training/mentoring to Tax Research & Content Associates and Analysts

  • Research, analyze, interpret, and document tax laws and regulations over a wide range of industries in complex and demanding jurisdictions

  • Anticipate and assess the impact of proposed regulatory developments to stay ahead of changes in laws and regulations impacting applications

  • Model and implement support for new tax regimes; implement content changes; complete work within prescribed content deadlines

  • Design and execute test scenarios to ensure content accuracy, functionality, and usability  

  • Correspond with tax authorities on complex and contradictory matters

  • Research, respond, and resolve client issues in partnership with Customer Support

  • Contribute to the development of requirements for tax application features and functionality in partnership with Product Management

  • Provide recommendations on complex geospatial, tax, and legal issues; communicate issues in an understandable manner to non-tax/GIS professionals

Key Relationships:

  • Customer support

  • Product management

  • Development

About You:

Essential Skills:

  • Minimum five (5) to seven (7) years of tax experience; 2+ years of tax calculation and compliance software (e.g. ONESOURCE™) experience; 2+ years indirect tax experience

  • Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders

  • Detail-oriented with an aptitude for analysis and problem-solving solving including the ability to interpret, analyze, and organize detailed legal material

  • Ability to utilize online research tools (e.g. Checkpoint, Tax Analysts, WestLaw, etc.)

  • Ability to consistently meet rigid and recurring deadlines

  • Superior written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write white papers on tax and/or technical subjects

  • Superior organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks

  • Intermediate to advanced software skills (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Word, Access)

  • Ability to work and learn independently with minimal supervision

  • Written and spoken fluency in English

Desired Skills:

  • Experience with excise tax

  • Experience working for a public accounting firm or corporate tax department

  • Fluency in languages other than English

Education/ Certifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Tax/Accounting/Finance is required

  • JD, LLM, MBA, or CPA/Chartered Tax Adviser is preferred

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

  • Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

  • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

  • Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The location(s) for this role include one or more of the following metro locations: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $81,600 - $151,600. The base compensation range in other locations may vary. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.


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We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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