Sales and Use Tax Manager
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Sales and Use Tax Manager leading multistate tax advisory engagements for Elliott Davis clients. Advising on compliance, audits, tax savings, technology, and client growth.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage multiple sales and use tax advisory engagements across a diverse client base
- Advise clients on complex sales and use tax matters, including taxability, nexus, sourcing, exemptions, marketplace issues, registration requirements, and multistate compliance
- Identify tax savings and planning opportunities, including refund reviews, reverse audits, exemption opportunities, and process improvements
- Conduct and oversee multistate nexus and taxability studies and translate technical findings into practical recommendations
- Assist clients with sales tax audits and controversy matters, including information requests, assessments, technical positions, and state taxing authorities
- Evaluate sales and use tax processes and recommend improvements related to data, systems, exemption certificate management, and tax determination
- Work with Avalara, Vertex, and similar sales tax technology solutions; assist with implementations and optimization
- Research state and local tax issues and prepare or review technical memoranda, taxability analyses, matrices, correspondence, and other deliverables
- Manage engagements from planning through completion, including scope, budgets, staffing, deadlines, billing, and client communication
- Develop client relationships and serve as a trusted resource for finance, tax, accounting, and operational teams
- Identify expansion opportunities and collaborate with Elliott Davis professionals on SALT and broader firm resources
- Participate in business development, proposals, prospect meetings, presentations, and thought leadership
- Coach, supervise, and mentor SALT professionals
- Collaborate across the SALT practice on income and franchise tax, credits and incentives, property tax, unclaimed property, and other multistate matters
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Business, or a related field
- Approximately 5+ years of relevant sales and use tax or state and local tax experience
- Strong technical knowledge of multistate sales and use tax concepts, including nexus, taxability, exemptions, sourcing, and compliance
- Ability to manage multiple engagements and client relationships simultaneously
- Ability to identify and develop new client opportunities and expanded service opportunities within existing relationships
- Strong research, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills
- Experience reviewing the work of others and providing technical guidance to professional staff
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Preferred: Master's degree in Accounting, Taxation, or a related field
- Preferred: CPA, JD, or CMI Sales Tax designation, or progress toward an applicable professional credential
- Preferred: Experience with Avalara, Vertex, or similar tax automation solutions
- Preferred: Experience conducting reverse audits, refund reviews, nexus studies, taxability studies, voluntary disclosure agreements, and audit defense
- Preferred: Experience with multistate businesses in manufacturing, distribution, technology/SaaS, construction, or professional services
- Preferred: Experience managing and developing professional staff
Benefits:
- Generous time away and paid firm holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s
- Flexible work schedules
- 16 weeks of paid maternity and adoption leave
- 8 weeks of paid parental leave
- 4 weeks of paid caregiver leave (once eligible)
- First-class health and wellness benefits, including wellness coaching and mental health counseling
- One-on-one professional coaching
- Leadership and career development programs
- Access to Beyond, a program with experiences that help you expand your life, personally and professionally
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