Indirect Tax Technology Senior Analyst

About the role

Your Job Koch, one of America’s largest private companies, is seeking an Indirect Tax Technology Analyst or Sr. Analyst in Wichita, KS or Plano, TX office. This role helps execute indirect tax technology strategy, provides production support for tax determination systems, and partners with tax advisory, business teams, and IT on implementations and upgrades.

What You Will Do

• Drive transformation by leading measurable improvements to tax determination systems, integrations, and upstream data to reduce failures and manual work.
• Maintain and continuously enhance the indirect tax technology infrastructure to optimize tax processes, determinations, and reporting.
• Key focus areas include maintaining and enhancing the OneSource Determination platform and integrations, partnering with the business to improve data quality and controls, and improved determination monitoring and testing.
• Production Support: OneSource Determination and Vertex (Series O and Series L)
• Manage tax determination support tickets across Koch business units.
• Perform thorough issue diagnosis and root cause analysis.
• Monitor monthly OneSource Determination content updates and assess impacts to configurations.
• Develop and maintain test scripts to proactively detect configuration and content issues.
• Implement configuration changes and maintain documentation.
• Identify configuration risks and implement mitigating controls; ensure compliance with applicable policies and procedures.
• Partner with various business tax teams and stakeholders to understand business activities and indirect tax requirements to adequately solve in the applicable tax technology.
• Determination Implementations
• Lead end to end implementations and upgrades for OneSource Determination and provide support for ERP and integration upgrades.
• Collaborate on projects and provide communications to keep the capability, leadership, and other stakeholders connected.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Knowledge of indirect tax or indirect tax technology
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities and timelines
• Demonstrated ability to independently investigate and resolve complex issues with minimal direction by identifying the right stakeholders and driving to root cause
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills that will enable you to diagnose why tax did or didn’t calculate by isolating data, configuration, content, or integration issues

What Will Put You Ahead

• OneSource Determination, Vertex or AvaTax experience
• Experience in a Global Indirect Tax role
• Knowledge of a broad range of indirect tax functions, including Sales and Use Tax and global VAT
• Experience leading transformation or technology initiatives
• Familiarity with data tools/automation (Alteryx, SQL, Tableau, Power BI)
• Possess strong skills in written/verbal communication to various levels within an organization
• Experience training or developing others
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, taxation or computer information science
• Previous CPA firm or multi-national corporation experience