at Accenture in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries.
Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song.
These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
As a member of the Sales Tax professional staff, this position contributes general knowledge and skill in the Sales Tax Compliance area to support Lodging Tax Department business objectives. The Sales and Property Tax Senior Analyst reports to the Manager of Sales Tax Compliance and completes complex accounting and compliance tasks associated with the client’s required sales and occupancy tax compliance for assigned properties within assigned states. The position is also responsible for maintaining an accurate compliance environment, researching the taxability of transactions as needed and ensuring that all deliverables are completed timely and accurately. The Sales and Property Tax Senior Analyst is the primary point of contact for the client on tax matters for assigned states.- Please note that this is a remote role. Individuals must sit within 90 miles of an Accenture corporate office.
+ Minimum of 3 years of experience in Finance and Accounting (F&A)
Preferred Skills:+ Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Finance, Accounting, Math and/or Statistics)
+ CPA
+ Experience with US Sales Tax
+ Experience with tax research tools, Microsoft products, CorpTax, Quickbase and other accounting systems
Professional Skills:+ Comfortable operating in a dynamic, transformational environment, where change is embraced and viewed as an opportunity for ones own professional development and to drive process improvement for the team and broader organization
+ Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation development and delivery, with an ability to effectively work across teams
+ Organizational skills and ability to multitask with a variety of systems and processes to meet competing deadlines
+ Highly motivated with strong analytical and critical problem solving skills
+ Strong attention to detail, where accuracy and precision are critical to success, yet possessing an ability to step back and organizational objectives, and how tax department activities contribute to them
+ Demonstrated ability to interact with and collaborate with resources in an onshore offshore staffing model
+ Systems technical acumen, with a desire and aptitude to learn and master new financial accounting and reporting systems.
+ Ability to manage projects and work independently to resolve day to day Sales Tax compliance and accounting issues
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
Information on benefits is here. (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/total-rewards)Role Location Hourly Salary Range
California $26.20 to $63.13
Colorado $26.20 to $54.52
District of Columbia $27.93 to $58.08
New York $24.28 to $63.13
Maryland $24.28 to $50.48
Washington $27.93 to $58.08
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