Revenue Audit Supervisor

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We are hiring a Revenue Audit Supervisor for our Sales and Miscellaneous Tax Field Compliance Division/Des Plaines Field located in Des Plaines, 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!

This role offers a 37½ hour work week, a generous salary and benefits package, including paid time off for vacation, sick, or personal leave, thirteen holidays, pension and retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement, and insurance eligibility on day one (medical, dental, vision, and life).

• Under general direction, plans, monitors and directs the activities of a staff of Auditors engaged in performing 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.
• Conducts 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, via computer, or travels to taxpayers’ place of business to discuss and resolve technical or controversial tax issues with taxpayers and/or their representatives.
• Confers with manager to provide status information 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 subordinate staff.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned, reasonably within the scope of 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.

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