Senior Tax Accountant

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated, intellectually curious Senior Tax Accountant to join our Finance and Accounting team. This is not a "maintenance" role. As an early, pivotal hire for our tax function, you won’t just execute processes—you will help design and build the blueprint for our tax team from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Co-Build the Function: Partner with finance leadership to establish, automate, and scale our internal tax processes and strategies as the company expands globally.
• Project Management: Act as the primary project manager for external tax advisors, ensuring deliverables (like federal, state, and international tax returns) are accurate and on schedule.
• Tax Close & Provisions: Own the quarter-end and annual tax provision process (ASC 740), prepare tax journal entries, and perform flux analyses with a keen eye for detail.
• Audit & Notice Ownership: Project-manage responses to tax audits and notices, proactively gathering documentation and resolving inquiries efficiently.
• Curiosity-Driven Special Projects: Lead research and execution on special projects, including R&D tax credits, international expansion, transfer pricing, and state nexus evaluation.
• Process Automation: Constantly question the status quo. Identify manual bottlenecks in our current tax processes and implement modern, scalable software or workflow solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; Master’s degree in Taxation is a plus.
• CPA license is required.
• Minimum of 3–5 years of progressive tax experience (Public accounting/Big 4 experience highly preferred; a mix of public and fast-paced corporate experience is ideal).
• A Builder’s Mindset: Comfortable with ambiguity and excited by the challenge of creating order out of chaos.
• Strong Project Management Skills: Proven ability to manage external vendors, track multiple competing deadlines, and drive cross-functional projects to completion.
• Solid foundational understanding of ASC 740 (Accounting for Income Taxes).
• Experience in the SaaS industry or with international tax issues is a major plus.
• Innate curiosity, strong analytical problem-solving skills, and the ability to translate complex tax concepts into plain English for non-finance stakeholders.

Qualifications

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Benefits

At New Relic, we provide a variety of benefits for this role, including healthcare, dental, vision, parental leave and planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, flex time-off, 11 paid holidays, volunteer time-off, and other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees.

Pay

The estimated base pay range for this role is $106,000 - $132,000 USD.