Sales and Use Tax Principal - Dallas

About the role

Merit Advisors delivers specialty tax, valuation, and advisory services that help energy companies increase cash flow and unlock value enterprise-wide. For over 25 years, we have served as trusted partners across commodity cycles, supporting companies of every scale—from PE-backed startups to supermajor oil and gas companies.

Responsibilities

• Possess an expert-level understanding of state tax laws and regulations.
• Ability to serve as a leader who communicates, demonstrates, and enforces the firm’s Mission Statement and goals throughout their team.
• Demonstrate excellent organizational skills and strong self-motivation and motivate the team. Must be able to work independently but also effectively delegate work.
• Able to effectively prioritize and manage multiple projects, activities, and deadlines.
• Deep experience working with Excel or Access, PowerPoint required.
• Able to manage overall client relationships and ensure managers are cultivating a positive and motivating team environment.
• Able to demonstrate and apply superior analytical ability and technical expertise with an ability to provide insightful analysis.
• Demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate clearly, effectively, and persuasively.
• Able to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; make effective decisions, identify underlying or hidden problems and patterns, and apply creativity and innovative thinking.
• Able to anticipate new situations and/or changing demands and respond proactively.
• Demonstrate initiative to accomplish financial goals and manage the economics of the overall book of business as well as economics of individual project engagements.
• Some travel out of town, overnight for internal or client meetings and/or conferences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s (or advanced) degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Business Administration
• 10+ years of relevant experience as a consultant
• Exceptional communication skills (interaction with government officials, C-Suite, and staff/colleagues)
• Proven Business Development skills
• Analytical and able to solve complex problems in tight timelines
• Able to coordinate, delegating, and managing others
• Deep industry expertise of applicable taxes and regulations
• Goal-driven personality with the ability to deliver measurable results
• Understanding of accounting/finance and covered industries

Qualifications

• Travel up to 10% to sites beyond the corporate office. Valid driver’s license.
• Perform sedentary work – exerting up to 15 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• See, hear, talk, and perform tasks requiring manual dexterity and visual acuity; sit, stand, walk, reach, pull, push and other similar.
• Operate standard office/computer equipment.

Skills

• Strong client engagement skills.
• History of running and executing client engagements.
• Ability to interact with, and provide exceptional customer service to, clients and stakeholders.
• Ability to build, elevate and coach strong high-performing teams.
• Ability to learn quickly, retain information and train others.
• Exacting standards of accuracy and organization.
• Exceptional service delivery to our clients/stakeholders.
• Meeting deadlines.
• Negotiating with confidence.
• Thinking critically and recognizing when something is off.
• Communicating complicated topics with ease and simplicity.
• Understanding approaches to the valuation of property.
• Working well independently and as part of a team, while building strong internal and external working relationships.
• Managing your time well and prioritizing tasks effectively.

Benefits

In addition to your competitive salary, generous PTO program, medical/dental/vision plan, and matching 401(k), you’ll enjoy company-sponsored events, continuous learning opportunities, and the flexibility to manage your work/life balance.

Pay

Competitive salary

Schedule

Full-time