Tax Accountant

Position Summary

Reporting to the VP, Finance, the Tax Accountant supports the company’s recurring tax compliance calendar by preparing and timely filing a range of tax returns and payments, maintaining reconciliations, and supporting schedules that underpin the company’s indirect tax function. We are looking first for the right person, not the exact resume. Curiosity, adaptability, critical thinking, problem-solving, and the ability to learn independently matter more to us than prior experience with any specific filing or system — the specific tasks can be taught to a capable, motivated candidate. The role is broad and varied, offering exposure across the company’s tax compliance work.

General Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare and timely file the company’s recurring indirect tax returns and remit the associated payments, including property tax, sales and use tax, and business & occupation (B&O) tax, ensuring all obligations are met accurately and by their deadlines.
• Maintain the property tax compliance calendar, including property tax renditions and returns across the company’s jurisdictions.
• Prepare and file federal excise tax forms, including Form 720 (quarterly federal excise tax return) and Form 8849 (excise tax refund/credit claims), and submit required zero filings.
• Prepare monthly tax journal entries and accruals as part of the month-end close.
• Prepare monthly terminal and gallon reconciliations and the supporting schedules that feed the company’s excise tax filings and information returns.
• Manage the company’s surety bonds and related premium payments — ensuring timely renewals, and that premium and bulk bills are accurately prepared, posted, and paid — and maintain licensing and registration requirements.
• Complete periodic regulatory and energy reporting (such as Department of Energy filings) on the required cadences.
• Support annual information reporting, including the preparation and filing of all Form 1099s.
• Research and resolve jurisdictional notices and discrepancy letters.
• Maintain the standardization of returns, supporting schedules, and work papers; document and improve procedures (SOPs); and identify opportunities to streamline and automate.
• Aid in jurisdictional audit requests by providing supporting documentation as needed.
• Provide cross-functional support to other areas of the Finance team as needed, particularly during peak periods.
• Assist management with various projects and tasks as needed; other duties as assigned.

Position Qualifications

• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Proficiency with core accounting concepts, such as debits/credits and account and inventory reconciliation.
• Familiarity with SAP (or a comparable ERP/accounting system).
• Ability to multitask with attention to detail across competing priorities and deadlines.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel required, including the ability to utilize functions and pivot tables.
• Adheres to professional standards for the protection of confidential, proprietary, and personally identifiable information.
• Ability to independently develop solutions to problems/challenges as they arise.

Education, Experience, Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Corporate tax and/or general accounting experience is preferred but not required.

Physical Requirements

• The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The employee must occasionally position, transport and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to:
• Be stationary for long periods of time.
• Move about in an office environment.
• Work using repetitive motion.
• Work requires physical efforts associated with using the computer and phones to access information.

About the Organization

TransMontaigne Partners LLC is a terminaling and transportation company based in Denver, Colorado with operations in the United States on the Pacific Coast, the Gulf Coast, in the Midwest, and in the Southeast. We provide integrated terminaling, storage, transportation and related services for customers engaged in the distribution and marketing of light refined petroleum products, heavy refined petroleum products, crude oil, chemicals, fertilizers and other liquid products. Light refined products include gasolines, diesel fuels, heating oil and jet fuels; heavy refined products include residual fuel oils and asphalt.