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. Just as importantly, 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 manage our third-party tax relationships and software, handle sales, use, and corporate income tax compliance, and assist our accounting team with reporting and close activities. This role offers the opportunity to build your tax skills through regular interaction with tax professionals and develop 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 the 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 skills
• 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

Skills

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