Tax Consultant

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid: 2 days onsite, 3 days remote). Contract duration: 1–2 years. Job type: Contract. Number of openings: 1.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Tax Consultant, Local Tax to support local tax accounting, analysis, compliance, and reporting activities. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience with property tax and/or gross receipts tax, strong accounting fundamentals, and advanced Excel skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform property tax accounting and analysis.
• Support Gross Receipts Tax (GRT) calculations, reporting, and compliance.
• Conduct property tax variance analysis, including investigation of differences between periods, estimates, actuals, and assessments.
• Prepare or support property tax returns.
• Prepare or support gross receipts tax returns.
• Prepare tax accruals and journal entries.
• Develop and maintain detailed tax and accounting workpapers.
• Reconcile accounting and system data to tax reporting requirements.
• Analyze financial and accounting data to determine appropriate tax treatment.
• Work with multiple tax jurisdictions.
• Support tax payments and regulatory filings.
• Identify discrepancies in accounting data and determine underlying causes.
• Use accounting/ERP data and Excel to perform analysis and reach conclusions.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of relevant experience.
• Background in accounting and/or tax.
• Experience in local tax, property tax, gross receipts tax, or related tax/accounting functions.
• Strong understanding of basic accounting principles, including debits and credits, journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, general ledger data, financial reporting concepts, and the relationship between accounting data and tax calculations/reporting.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and ability to analyze and manipulate large datasets.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical problem‑solving skills.
• Ability to work with data from accounting or ERP systems and reconcile information to tax reporting.
• Excel proficiency: pivot tables, lookups and formulas, filtering and sorting large datasets, data reconciliation, variance analysis, data cleansing and manipulation, building and maintaining tax/accounting workpapers.

Pay

$50–$60 per hour.

Schedule

Monday – Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST.