Job Description
Senior Indirect Tax Accountant
Role Summary:
Do you want to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing industry? At Thomson Reuters, we are powered by the talents of 26,000+ employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion.
As a Senior Indirect Tax Accountant in our Indirect Tax team, you will help ensure Thomson Reuters businesses are compliant in all aspects of indirect tax, including US Sales and Use Tax, Canadian Goods and Services Tax, and Harmonized Sales Tax. You will work with our team to employ various automation tools, such as Alteryx and Power BI, to streamline and improve tax processes. This is a high-visibility opportunity that requires someone who can operate effectively in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple priority projects simultaneously.
Key Responsibilities
In this opportunity as a Senior Indirect Tax Accountant, you will:
- Provide support for indirect tax audits and ensure compliance across all jurisdictions
- Set up and maintain sales tax product codes in SAP, ensuring accurate classification
- Regularly monitor and update tax matrices to meet evolving compliance requirements
- Review and analyze sales and use tax (SUT), annual reports, and business license matters
- Collaborate on research and planning initiatives related to indirect tax issues and regulatory changes
- Assist with configuration and troubleshooting of SUT systems and system implementations
- Ensure business segments have robust processes and records in place to support exempt sales
- Provide business segments with actionable indirect tax advice and ongoing support
- Participate in due diligence processes and acquisition integrations from a tax compliance perspective
- Prepare Voluntary Disclosure Agreement documents and manage associated filings
- Assist with various indirect tax projects and initiatives as business needs arise
Required Qualifications
You're a fit for the role of Senior Indirect Tax Accountant if your background includes:
- Minimum 3-4 years of relevant experience in tax accounting or indirect tax compliance
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent professional experience
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and ERP systems (particularly SAP)
- Excellent analytical abilities and problem-solving skills in complex tax scenarios
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to explain tax concepts clearly to diverse audiences
- Demonstrated experience in sales and use tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Alteryx and Power BI for tax process automation and data analysis
- Hands-on experience with ONESOURCE suite of software products, including ONESOURCE Indirect Tax Determination
- Proven ability to determine proper sales tax treatment for complex business and legal transactions
- Deep knowledge of indirect tax legislation, regulations, court decisions, and ruling interpretations
- Track record of conducting independent research to support implementation and interpretation of indirect tax laws
- Background in public accounting or a Master of Business Taxation degree (or working towards one)
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment
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What’s in it For You?
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
- Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
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