Tax Manager - Indirect Tax - Sales and Use
About the role
The opportunity involves advising on indirect tax regulatory changes, designing strategies, operating models, processes, and compliance frameworks that raise efficiency and meet requirements. It also includes identifying opportunities for tax optimization, credits and refund recovery, exposure reduction; managing strategies, compliance, remediation, controversies, and corrective filings. Supporting process review and technology transformation.
Responsibilities
- Translate regulatory changes into practical compliance and reporting solutions.
- Implement operating models and frameworks across the indirect tax lifecycle.
- Lead optimization, recovery, and exposure-reduction initiatives.
- Lead workstream delivery, track status and deliverables, and participate in client working sessions.
- Identify opportunities for additional services, contribute to RFPs, manage engagement economics, and implement resource plans and budgets.
- Guide teams, drive improvement, and recommend solutions by interpreting internal/external issues.
- Support process review and technology transformation.
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related discipline.
- A minimum of 5 years professional knowledge in a broad range of sales and use tax processes, concepts and tools.
- An achieved CPA qualification, state bar membership, certification as a member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation or CMI designation.
- Experience managing budgets, people and projects.
- A proven record of excellence in a professional services or tax organization.
- Technical writing and research experience in a tax context.
- The ability to prioritize when working on multiple complex projects.
- Strong influencing skills, and the confidence to question existing processes.
- Willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment.
- Tax legislation and impact assessment.
- Indirect tax refund and recovery review.
- Tax planning and optimization.
- Audit quality and remediation techniques.
- Global mindset.
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related discipline.
- A minimum of 5 years professional knowledge in a broad range of sales and use tax processes, concepts and tools.
- An achieved CPA qualification, state bar membership, certification as a member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation or CMI designation.
- Experience managing budgets, people and projects.
- A proven record of excellence in a professional services or tax organization.
- Technical writing and research experience in a tax context.
- The ability to prioritize when working on multiple complex projects.
- Strong influencing skills, and the confidence to question existing processes.
- Willingness to travel as needed, and working in a balanced hybrid environment.
- Tax legislation and impact assessment.
- Indirect tax refund and recovery review.
- Tax planning and optimization.
- Audit quality and remediation techniques.
- Global mindset.
Skills and attributes for success
- Client-facing delivery leadership, disciplined quality and risk management, continuous improvement, and the ability to guide teams toward outcomes.
- Communicate with impact and bring commercial astuteness to drive growth.
- Manage and deliver processes, solutions, and projects with a focus on quality and risk.
- Lead or supervise professionals to deliver complex technical initiatives with accountability for results.
- Interpret internal/external issues to recommend innovative, practical solutions.
- Maintain locally set performance metrics across client service, quality, sales, solution development, and teaming.
Pay
The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $105,100 to $192,600. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $126,100 to $218,900. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.
Schedule
Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.