Senior, Indirect Tax
About The Position
Elessent Clean Technologies is a global leader in process technologies to drive sustainability and carbon neutrality in the metal, fertilizer, chemical, and oil refining industries with an unwavering commitment to customer support. We provide extensive global expertise across our portfolio of offerings in key applications – MECS® sulfuric acid production, STRATCO® alkylation, BELCO® wet scrubbing, and IsoTherming® hydroprocessing. Offering critical process equipment, products, technology, and services, we enable an array of industrial markets, including phosphate fertilizer, non-ferrous metals, oil refining, petrochemicals, and chemicals, to minimize their environmental impact and optimize productivity. We are dedicated to helping our customers produce high-quality products used in everyday life in the safest, most environmentally sound way possible, with a vision to make the world a better place by creating clean alternatives to traditional industrial processes. The Senior, Indirect Tax is responsible for leading all aspects of indirect taxes (sales and use taxes, value-added taxes, good and services taxes, and other consumption taxes) as well as property taxes, business licenses and other business taxes. This requires an ability to adapt in a versatile environment and partner cross-functionally with key business partners (FP&A, IT, Sales, Services, Revenue, Ops, etc.) to develop and refine global processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or other related fields
- 5+ years of Sales/Use tax and Property tax experience in either public accounting and/or a large corporate tax department
- Excellent communicator and presenter with an ability to influence all levels
- Must have a demonstrated hands-on approach and success in working in a team-based environment
- International tax experience
- Knowledge of accounting practices and procedures and sales and use tax laws
- Expert in Microsoft Office with an emphasis in Excel required
- Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as analytical skills
- Excellent Customer Service skills
- Outstanding time management and organizational skills
- Experience with ERP systems
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage indirect tax audits and inquiries, ensuring a smooth and efficient process while minimizing financial risk
- Design, prepare, and review monthly indirect tax reports
- Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual indirect tax returns
- Prepare and review monthly tax general ledger account reconciliations
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of indirect tax regulations and develop strategies to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements in federal, state, and foreign jurisdictions
- Conduct tax research related to products, customers, and new markets
- Develop and implement process and tax software improvements to streamline tax functions
- Lead cross functional finance projects and provide subject matter expertise
- Effectively communicate with all levels of personnel, across functions within the finance organization and with external advisors
- Proactively identify indirect tax opportunities and analyze complex tax issues related to the business and independently provide recommendations and solutions to mitigate risk
- Proven ability to meet deadlines in a time sensitive environment
- Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned as needed.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
