Revenue Audit Supervisor

Position Overview

Would you like to work for a professional organization which provides steady hours and an exceptional benefits package? How about a workplace with career and personal growth opportunities? Then consider working for the Illinois Department of Revenue. We are hiring a Revenue Audit Supervisor for our Sales and Miscellaneous Tax Field Compliance Division/Fairview Heights located in Fairview Heights, IL. In this position you will supervise and review the activities of Revenue Auditors, providing guidance, instruction and resolution when needed.

If you have completed 2 years as a Revenue Auditor III, and have a desire to lead and help others, then we want you! Don’t let this opportunity pass you by. Apply now before time runs out!

The benefits of working at Department of Revenue include a 37 1/2 hour work week, a generous salary and benefits package (paid time off for vacation, sick, or personal leave, thirteen holidays) pension and other retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement, and insurance eligibility on day one (medical, dental, vision, and life).

• Under general direction, plans, assigns, supervises and reviews the activities of a staff of Auditors engaged in performing field audits of Illinois and/or out-of-state taxpayers subject to one or more taxes administered by the Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR).
• Interprets and explains the proper application of sales and miscellaneous tax laws, rules, regulations and opinions.
• Serves as working supervisor.
• Performs pre-audit evaluation to establish suitability of case to Auditor skill level, scope and procedures to be employed.
• Travels to taxpayer’s place of business, to conduct post-audit conferences with taxpayers, or their representatives, to explain audit findings predicated on applicable tax laws rules, regulations, court decisions and precedents.
• Confers by telephone, or, as necessary, travels to taxpayer’s place of business to discuss and resolve technical or controversial tax issues with taxpayers and/or their representatives.
• Confers with manager to provide information as to status of ongoing audits, or obtain guidance in resolving controversial or complex legal and/or technical tax problems.
• Reviews and approves completed computerized audit reports.
• Provides continuous communication and feedback to staff regarding performance, completing timely reviews and annual evaluations which clearly reflect the employee’s accomplishments and contributions, as well as short comings.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

QUALIFICATION PATH A

Requires a bachelor’s degree.

Requires successful completion of fifteen semester hours of academically progressive coursework
* in accounting including at minimum:

• two introductory accounting courses
• two intermediate accounting courses
• one course in taxation or audit.

Requires two years professional experience as a Revenue Auditor III.

* IMPORTANT NOTE:

Progressive coursework is recognized as sequencing of increasingly difficult and rigorous coursework in an academic discipline that builds upon previously mastered knowledge and skills. Progressive coursework may be determined by assessment of course content, course title, course numbering, or other factors. Coursework assessed as duplicative shall be accepted and credited once, only.

QUALIFICATION PATH B

Requires a bachelor’s or higher degree in Accounting or a Certified Public Accountant certification.

Requires two years professional experience as a Revenue Auditor III.

• Requires 4 years of experience working with Sales and Miscellaneous Tax auditing processes and utilizing Gen Tax for audit purposes.
• Requires 2 years of experience in a coach and/or mentor role as a Revenue Auditor III.

• Four (4) years of experience working with Sales and Miscellaneous Tax auditing processes, i.e., reviewing tax records, conducting tax audits of businesses, interpreting and explaining the proper application of sales and miscellaneous tax laws, rules, regulations, legal opinions, etc.
• Four (4) years of experience using Gen…