Senior Tax Accountant (Indirect Tax Focus - Sales, Property, GST, VAT)
Summary The role includes the coordination of all activities relating to Indirect Tax operations of New Relic, with a 60% focus on Sales Tax and Property Tax, and additional focus on India
GST and international VAT. This role also supports the Senior Tax Manager in the overall management of Indirect taxes.
What youll do
- Maintain tax reporting calendar to help ensure all Indirect tax compliance requirements are being met.
- Coordinate and file gross receipts tax, sales and use tax, and Property Tax for multiple jurisdictions.
- Coordinate and file VAT and GST for multiple jurisdictions.
- Assisting customer query on Sales Tax Abatement request.
- Experience in Handling sales tax audits.
- Owning the process and work related to indirect tax audit and designing framework for assessment readiness.
- Assist with registration & de-registration of VAT/GST.
- Reviewing tax accounting, provisioning and leading interactions with internal and statutory auditors.
- Publishing trackers and dashboards on key tax risks and exceptions and assist with identifying potential issues that may lead to litigation and evaluating existing issues to identify the need for provision/reserves.
- Coordination and monitoring of the compilation of data for VAT relevant declarations.
- Assist AP team with tax-exempt certificates and coordinate with AR team with resale certificates.
- Work with Senior Tax Manager on tax planning and tax forecasts.
- Assist with month close tasks, including preparing general ledger reconciliations and journal entry recordings.
- Partner with IT on system configuration to determine indirect tax treatment of new products and engagements.
- Assist Local Management with other team initiatives to simplify processes.
- Work with the Treasury to ensure the remittance of correct & timely tax payments.
- Liaise with external service providers on tax matters, wherever required.
- Assist with other miscellaneous tax returns SUT/Property Taxes/Business license.
This role requires
- Graduate with minimum 8 years of experience in Indirect Tax compliance and Tax Accounting.
- CA/MBA preferred, though not mandatory.
- Experience in both public accounting and Industry is preferred.
- Relevant Tax experience within Indirect Tax, Strong Tax technical skills and keen to develop further.
- Must have practical experience of filing returns, tax reconciliations.
- Background in the IT Industry is an added plus.
- Good analytical skills, a problem solver, logical thinker with strong attention to detail
- Expert Knowledge of automation tools, Avalara, Google Suite and experience with Transformation projects is required.
- Excellent written skills with clear, concise & logical documentation.
- Good communication, negotiation and relationship management skills.
- Excellent organization & planning skills.
- Creative problem solving and business process reengineering skills.
Bonus points if you have
- Team player with ability work with colleagues in a collaborative manner, as well as being able to proactively progress multiple tasks independently
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