Tax Accountant

Precisely is the leader in data integrity. We empower businesses to make more confident decisions based on trusted data through a unique combination of software, data enrichment products, and strategic services. What does this mean to you? For starters, it means joining a company focused on delivering outstanding innovation and support that helps customers increase revenue, lower costs, and reduce risk. Precisely powers better decisions for more than 12,000 global organizations, including 99 of the Fortune 100. Precisely's 2500 employees are unified by four company core values that are central to who we are and how we operate: Openness, Determination, Individuality, and Collaboration. We are committed to career development for our employees and offer opportunities for growth, learning, and building community. With a "work from anywhere" culture, we celebrate diversity in a distributed environment with a presence in 30 countries as well as 20 offices on over 5 continents. Learn more about why it's an exciting time to join Precisely!

Intro and job overview: 

The primary responsibilities of the Tax Accountant are to ensure transactional tax returns/payments are filed/remitted in a timely and accurate manner, review invoices for the determination of accurate transactional tax, assist in the preparation of global income tax provision and returns, receive and index tax-related mail received, research tax notices and work with supervisor for resolution, and assist with other tax department responsibilities. 

Responsibilities and Duties: 

Global transactional tax (Sales Tax, GST, VAT):

• Prepare data to send to service provider for US sales and use tax return compliance

• Prepare and file international transactional tax returns

• Review sales and purchase invoices to confirm applicable tax

• Review purchase invoices to determine applicable use tax

• Reconcile transactional tax GL accounts

• Provide support to internal and external sales tax inquiries

Global income tax:

• Assist with the preparation of global tax provisions

• Gather required information for global income tax return preparation, including credits and incentives

• Review tax return calculations prepared by external advisors

• Prepare provision-to-return analysis

• Prepare quarterly estimated tax payments and extension payment calculations

Other items:

• Work with the team to ensure proper cash forecasting for tax payments and refunds

• Update and maintain tax calendars by legal entity

• Ensure global tax returns and payments are processed in a timely and accurate manner

• Prepare journal entries

• Resolves notices and assessments from tax authorities

• Assist in tax planning and research

• Performs ad-hoc projects and process improvement initiatives as assigned

Requirements and Qualifications: 

• Basic accounting knowledge

• Motivated to grow and learn tax technical knowledge

• Enjoys collaborating with the tax team and across the company.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Organizational and time management skills

• Handles and safeguards confidential information and sensitive information

• Ability to execute instructions and to request clarification when needed

• Degree in Accounting or Taxation

• Proficient in MS Office Suite 

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