Senior Tax Accountant

Insurity empowers insurance organizations to quickly capitalize on new opportunities by delivering the world’s most configurable, cloud-native, easy-to-use, and intuitively analytical insurance software. We empower our people—providing the tools, support, and opportunities they need to grow and succeed. As the largest cloud-based software provider for the Property & Casualty market, Insurity is trusted by 22 of the top 25 P&C carriers and 7 of the top 10 wholesale brokers in the MGA space.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Tax Accountant to join our team who will be responsible for managing our third-party tax relationships and software, managing sales, use and corporate income tax compliance, and assisting our accounting team with reporting and close activities. This role will allow you the opportunity to utilize and build your tax skills through regular interaction with tax professionals as well as develop and grow your accounting skills alongside a bright and talented finance team.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Avalara tax software ensuring correct product mapping, active jurisdictions and timely filed sales tax returns in a multitude of states
• Ensure tax registrations and licenses are renewed and filed coordinating with legal and HR/Payroll as required
• Monitor and address tax notices for sales, use, property and corporate income tax
• Manage and provide data to 3rd parties for development of tax provision, apportionment for corporate financial statements, FIRPTA and Anti-Trust compliance and Canadian SR&ED and/or E-biz credit applications
• Ensure timely filing of corporate income tax extensions, estimated payments and annual filings
• Work with 3rd parties for preparation and filing of VAT, GST, HST and QST filings
• Monitor and tend to correspondence in tax email box
• Partner with Billing to address customer inquiries and resolution of issues
• Partner with Accounting for preparation and filing of property tax returns and/or declarations as well as payments
• Manage and coordinate tax portal logins and credentials with AP and Payroll
• Complete monthly balance sheet reconciliation workpapers
• Ensure specialty manually filed state returns including but not limited to franchise tax returns and Ohio CAT are filed as required
• Complete supporting financial statement schedules
• Oversee 3rd party tax partner projects as it relates to tax notices, audits and nexus reviews
• Work on ad-hoc projects and research in support of the finance team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree is highly desirable
• 2-5 years’ work experience in corporate income and sales & use tax
• Intermediate Excel skills
• Aptitude for identifying procedural improvements
• Excellent work habits, including the willingness to go above and beyond to get the job done, especially during financial close, audit or tax season
• Active listening
• Analytical and critical thinking
• Self-starter and quick learner
• Detail-oriented
• Ability to collaborate and work independently with limited supervision
• Time and/or project management including work planning, prioritization, organization and multi-tasking
• Experience with Avalara or similar sales tax software package as well as being the day-to-day owner of the software package
• Experience in Intacct
• Understanding of SaaS ("Software as a service" subscription-based model)
• Working knowledge of SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and Office 365
• Experience with foreign currency
• Experience with VAT, HST/GST/QST, Canadian E-Business and/or R&D tax credit programs highly desirable

Benefits

• Flexible work environment (remote, hybrid, or in-office depending on role and location)
• Open PTO Policy
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision) starting on day one
• Employer-matched 401(K) retirement savings starting on day one
• Paid maternity and paternity leave
• Disability insurance
• Award-winning onboarding program
• Mentorship program with experienced leaders
• Access to LinkedIn Learning and Kaplan for continuous development
• Discounted tuition for you and your family through University of Arizona Global Campus
• Employee Referral Bonus program

Pay

The career-level salary range for this role is $70,000 to $140,000. Actual salary may vary based on your experience and qualifications.