Sales Tax Accountant (100% Remote Work)

About the role

TaxValet is looking for a Sales Tax Accountant to help our clients eliminate the hassle and risk of sales tax. You’ll work to ensure that each of your clients’ needs are taken care of each month. You will use your keen eye for attention to detail to solve time-critical problems for clients, submit sales tax filings, and contribute to improving the team’s workflows and processes.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and submit sales tax filings.
  • You will work with the clients to ensure their sales tax data is accurate and in a format compatible with the tax software, prepare estimated liabilities, and submit sales tax filings on a monthly basis.
• Maintain clients' tax collection variances.
  • On a periodic (typically monthly) basis, you will monitor the variance between tax collected and the calculated liability due, determine any issues and work to resolve said issues with clients when possible.
• Assist with resolving time-critical issues.
  • You will work closely with clients to resolve notices from state sales tax authorities regarding assessments, collections, and past due returns. This often involves working with sales tax authorities to help our clients.
• Aid in special client projects.
  • You will assist with submitting late or amended sales tax returns, managing audits, and updating clients' company information with the states.
• Contribute to internal documentation, workflows, and processes.
  • You will be a key player in updating internal documentation for new and/or more efficient filing and account management processes, workflows, and tools used.
• Be the primary point of contact for your clients.
  • Once clients leave the onboarding process, you will be their primary point of contact for all services.

Qualifications

• Professional: 1-2 Years of Accounting Experience
• Multi-Client Master: Juggling multiple clients?
• Excel/Google Sheets Guru: Complex formulas, pivot tables, data analysis
• Bonus Points: US Sales Tax Knowledge, CPA
• Interpersonal: Detail-oriented, sharp eye for detail, data analysis, insights, excellent time management, multi-tasking, team player, creative, effective communicator, clear situation, confident in voicing concerns, advocate for team, clients, and TaxValet.

Skills

• High-speed and reliable home internet

Benefits

• Annual compensation - $59,500
• 43 days off per year (including 22 holidays and 21 days of PTO)
• Company pays 100% of health, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance, and 99% of dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) Plan with generous company matching (100% of up to a 3% contribution, and an additional 50% match on a 4-5% contribution)
• Remote work with core working hours of 11 AM - 4 PM EST
• The ability to participate in the company profit sharing program the year after your hire date (pending passing a financial literacy quiz)

Pay

$59,500 annually

Schedule

Core working hours of 11 AM - 4 PM EST, 100% remote work