What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant, Sales Tax position at AccruePartners?
THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING
- Established North Charlotte organization with a long-standing presence and multiple operating businesses across the Southeast
- Join a collaborative shared services tax function supporting a complex, multistate organization
- Work as part of a five-person tax team with direct access to experienced tax and accounting leadership
- Join an environment that offers established processes while continuing to invest in technology, automation, and process improvement
- North Charlotte
- Flexible hybrid schedule with three days in the office and two days remote
- Ownership of the organization's day-to-day multistate sales and use tax function
- Opportunity to join an established team where you can operate independently while having access to strong leadership and resources
- Exposure to a complex, multistate business with a variety of indirect tax matters beyond simply preparing returns
- Opportunity to play an active role in a Vertex Use Tax implementation and future systems integrations
- Ability to leverage tools including Vertex, SAP, Alteryx, and AI to improve processes and automate existing workflows
- Potential to take a lead role in future Vertex integrations and upgrades based on experience and interest
- Flexible hybrid environment with an emphasis on collaboration rather than fixed in-office days
- Own the preparation and filing of sales and use tax returns across multiple entities and jurisdictions
- Manage customer exemption certificates and ensure accurate exempt status within Vertex and related systems
- Partner directly with operations and credit teams to resolve sales tax questions, billing disputes, and exemption issues
- Review use tax activity, identify incorrect accruals, and reconcile sales and use tax accounts
- Support sales tax reserve calculations, indirect tax registrations, and jurisdictional compliance
- Coordinate indirect tax audits across sales tax, excise tax, and other applicable areas
- Monitor multistate activity and identify new registration and filing requirements as the business evolves
- Participate in the Vertex Use Tax implementation, future ERP upgrades, system integrations, testing, training, and change management
- Identify opportunities to improve existing processes through technology, automation, Alteryx, and AI-enabled workflows
- Hands-on multistate sales and use tax experience with the ability to independently manage the day-to-day function
- Ideally 5 years of relevant tax experience, although the team is flexible based on the depth and quality of sales tax exposure
- Experience with exemption certificates, sales and use tax filings, reconciliations, registrations, and indirect tax compliance
- Broader tax backgrounds are welcomed when sales and use tax has been a meaningful component of the individual's responsibilities
- Experience working in industry, public accounting, or consulting environments can translate well
- Strong professional judgment with the ability to resolve routine issues independently and appropriately escalate more complex matters
- Comfortable working with technology and interested in process improvement, automation, and changing systems
- Vertex experience is helpful but not required
- SAP experience is beneficial
- Bachelor's degree preferred