Tax Analyst with Sales & Use Tax Experience

At Ziply Fiber, our mission is to elevate the connected lives of our communities every day. We are delivering the fastest home internet in the Northwest, with a focus on areas traditionally underserved by mainstream internet companies. And as our state-of-the-art fiber network expands in WA, OR, ID and MT, so does our need for team members who can help us grow and realize our goals.

We may be building internet, but we are reaching real people. We strive to build relationships and provide customers and communities with refreshingly great experiences.

We emphasize our values in all our interactions:

Genuinely Caring: Our customers and colleagues are people, and quite possibly our neighbors. We put ourselves in their shoes and give them our full attention.

Empowering You: We empower our customers to choose the products that best meet their needs, and we support our employees to implement solutions that elevate the experiences of our customers and coworkers.

Innovation and Improvement: We always look for ways to make the experiences of our customers – and each other – better.

Earning Your Trust: We earn trust by communicating simply and transparently as real people, not as a corporation.

Job Summary

This is a work from home position, but to be considered, you must live within the states of OR, WA, ID and MT.

The Tax Analyst manages end-to-end processing of Ziply Fiber sales and use tax, utility tax, franchise tax, property tax, and required telecommunication regulatory filings. This includes coordinating with various service providers who are engaged to assist with these functions to ensure deadlines are met and filings are accurate. In addition, this role will serve as the primary point of contact for any tax related questions from business owners throughout Ziply Fiber.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities listed below are a range of duties performed by the employee and not intended to reflect all duties performed.

Tax Compliance & Regulatory Filings

• Aggregate monthly tax data from multiple systems.

• Serve as a secondary point person with Moss Adams on our required telecommunications regulatory filings.

• Serve as a secondary point person with our property tax consultant on property taxes are filed timely and consultant is receiving information needed to negotiate as sessments.

• Assist in transitioning tax and regulatory filing preparation from outsourced to in-house to the extent possible, performing in-house preparation.

• Perform periodic reconciliations between tax returns filed and the general ledger.

Customer Tax Configuration &Monitoring

• Monitor the EMS platform to ensure customer exemptions are appropriately configured on customer account records.

Policy, Documentation & Stakeholder Support

• Assist in creation of formal documentation of tax-specific policies and procedures.

• Available to answer and research tax related issues with various stakeholders throughout the organization.

• Manage the tax compliance inbox and respond timely to inquiries from internal and external stakeholders.

Other Duties

• Performs other duties as required to support the business and evolving organization.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field.

• Minimum of two (2) years’ experience in sales tax and use tax.

• Experience using large tax platforms.

• Strong Excel skills and some proficiency with MS Access or other database tools.

• Must have the proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet or exceed deadlines.

• High level of confidentiality.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrated excellence in problem solving and follow up necessary to resolve problems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with telecommunication taxes preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to work independently and apply sound judgment and reasoning skills to a variety of situations.

• Ability to multi-task and collaborate effectively with other personnel to meet deadlines.

• Strong verbal and written communication, attention to detail, and organizational skills.

• Ability to work within critical deadlines.

• Ability to adjust to rapidly changing priorities and schedules.

• Ability to provide excellent customer service.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US for any employer. Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking, or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

Work is performed in an office setting with exposure to computer screens and requires extensive use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system. The work is primarily a modern office setting.

At all times, Ziply Fiber must be your primary employer. Unless otherwise prohibited by law, employees may not hold outside employment nor be self-employed without obtaining approval in writing from Ziply Fiber. In holding outside employment or self-employment, employees should ensure that participation does not conflict with responsibilities to Ziply Fiber or its business interests.

Diverse Workforce / EEO

Ziply Fiber is an equal opportunity employer. Ziply Fiber will consider all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, and the presence of a non-job-related handicap or disability or any other legally protected status.

Ziply Fiber requires a pre-employment background check as conditions of employment. Ziply Fiber may require a pre-employment drug screening.

Ziply Fiber is a drug free workplace.