Tax Consultant

Contract role with 1-2 year duration, 1 opening. Hybrid schedule: 2 days onsite in New York, NY and 3 days remote.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Tax Consultant 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

Requirements

• 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
  • Relationship between accounting data and tax calculations/reporting
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• 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

Skills

Excel Skills: Strong Excel proficiency is important. Candidates should be comfortable with:

• 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

$50.00 - $60.00 per hour

Schedule

Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM EST