Senior Tax Accountant

Location

Roswell, GA | United States

Job description

Who We Are:

Centerline is a leading critical infrastructure and network solutions provider. A portfolio company of Audax Private Equity, Centerline designs, builds, and maintains next-generation wireless, wireline networks, and critical infrastructure facilities. The company has grown from approximately 300 employees to more than 1,500 over the past three years, providing turnkey services to Fortune 500 clients. Centerline’s operations cover most of the US and Canada, with offices in the Northeast and several other cities in the U.S.

Job Summary:

Centerline has a Senior Sales Tax Accountant position open in our Accounting Department. We are looking for highly motivated top performers who excel in a fast-paced environment. We expect our associates to exhibit leadership, to be results-oriented, and to be driven to succeed.

Reporting to the , the Senior Sales Tax Accountant works with our Accounting and Finance teams and business leaders. This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of the sales tax accounting function within our company. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in defining and implementing sales tax processes, with a focus on utilizing Avalara as the primary system for capturing sales taxes. This position requires a thorough understanding of nationwide tax regulations to ensure accurate taxability for both customers and vendors. The Senior Sales Tax Accountant will be expected to maintain a high level of integrity and ethics and must be able to maintain confidentiality.

Essential Functions:

• Efficiently, timely, and accurately prepare sales and use tax returns, including processing of payments and filing.
• Maintain compliance with all sales tax at the federal, state, and local level. 
• Implement new tax statutes, regulations, and rules to assure conformity with authorities.
• Actively drive tax planning and sales tax audits.
• Identify tax efficiencies and potential credits.
• Consolidate information and file personal property tax fillings.
• Takes ownership of Avalara settings, tax information, and reporting.
• Works with business leaders to determine taxability of contracts in different jurisdictions.
• Reviews Avalara tax coding for services and products and updates as needed.
• Prepares accounting reconciliations for sales and use tax GL accounts.
• Prepares required accrual journal entries to ensure US GAAP compliance.
• Ensure that all financial reporting complies with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). 
• Provides insightful information for GL variance analysis as it pertains to sales tax GL accounts.

• Support annual financial statement audits. 
• Assist with ad-hoc reporting requests and other projects as requested by management.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills. 
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment. 
• Strong organizational skills and ability to put in place standard operating procedures, particularly around close. 
• Ability to drive process excellence and continuous improvement in collaboration with business leaders. 
• Candidates with public accounting experience are preferred, but not required.
• Certified Public Accountants (CPA) are preferred, but not required. 

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office is required, specifically Advanced Excel. 
• Ability to analyze large transactional data sets (i.e., pivot tables, v-lookup). 

• Experience with Avalara and Sage Intacct is preferred, but not required.

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position has no supervisory responsibility.

Work Environment:

Working hybrid with some days in the Roswell, GA or West Bridgewater, MA office (days to be defined).

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to type, file, or lift office supplies up to 20 pounds. The employee is frequently required to walk, sit, stand, talk, and hear.

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.

Position Type :

This is a full-time exempt position. Days of work are Monday through Friday. Normal Business hours .

Preferred Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting. 
• 3 – 5 years sales and use tax and personal property tax experience.
• Experience with sales tax audits.

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