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. As a team member of a growing start-up, 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.

• Monitor 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.

• Provide assistance to resolve time-critical issues. Many clients come to us with notices from state sales tax authorities regarding assessments, collections, and past due returns. You will work closely with clients to resolve these issues and get their filings current. This often involves working with sales tax authorities to help our clients.

• Aid with special client projects. You will assist with submitting late or amended sales tax returns, managing audits, and updating clients' company information with the states.

• 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. You will be responsible for ensuring consistent and adequate communication between the team and the clients regarding any issues, sales tax filings, projects, or requests.

• Learn New Skills. You will continue to learn and advance your understanding of sales tax and related technical skills on an ongoing basis to advance your career and increase the value you bring to the team.

Qualifications

• At least 2 Years of Accounting Experience: You know the ropes when it comes to accounting. Your expertise helps keep things running smoothly.

• Multi-Client Master: Juggling multiple clients? You’ve got it covered. You can manage different priorities like a pro while keeping everything organized and on track.

• Excel/Google Sheets Guru: Whether it’s complex formulas, pivot tables, or data analysis, you’re a spreadsheet genius who can turn numbers into insights faster than a spreadsheet can load!

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual compensation - $59,500

• 43 days off per year. This includes 22 holidays per year, plus 21 days of PTO per year.

• 3 additional days off per year to volunteer with a non-profit organization of your choice.

• 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. We match 100% of up to a 3% contribution, and an additional 50% match on a 4-5% contribution.

• 100% 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).

Specific Measures of Success

• Average timeframe for special project completion. On average, complete special projects within 60 days of client sign-off/approval to proceed.

• Average timeframe for past due return project completion. On average, complete all known backfilings within 90 days of client onboarding completion.

• Client tax variance percentage. Have 80% of clients with less than 3% tax collection variance (the difference between the tax collected and the amount due to the state).

• Submitting returns on time. Have 99.9% of monthly filings submitted by state due dates.

• Completion of online education and training. You will complete 3 hours per quarter of Sales Tax Institute Webinars or other educational training.