Senior Accountant – Tax Compliance

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Full Time Franklin, TN, US

3 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $75,000.00 To $85,000.00 Annually

Outdoor Living Supply (OLS) is a leading wholesale distributor of outdoor living products, serving professional contractors, dealers, and customers through a growing network of locations across the United States.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Accountant to support OLS’s multistate sales and use tax compliance, business licensing, and real estate tax administration. Reporting to the Accounting Manager, this position will partner with Avalara, Treasury, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, branch teams, and external providers to ensure accurate reporting, timely filings and payments, current licenses, and complete documentation.

This is an excellent opportunity for an accounting professional with strong tax compliance experience who enjoys analyzing data, improving processes, and working collaboratively across departments.

• Maintain a centralized compliance calendar and tracking system for tax filings, reporting obligations, registrations, business licenses, and payment deadlines across multiple jurisdictions.
• Coordinate with Avalara and other external providers to ensure accurate and timely sales and use tax filings, payments, and registrations.
• Review return data and Net Suite transactions for appropriate tax treatment, codes, and rates; investigate discrepancies and coordinate approved payments with Treasury.
• Monitor physical and economic nexus requirements and coordinate registration activities with management and external advisors.
• Oversee the collection, validation, maintenance, and retention of customer resale and exemption certificates.
• Partner with Accounts Receivable and branch teams to resolve missing, incomplete, or expired exemption certificates.
• Coordinate the acquisition, renewal, and maintenance of state and local business licenses and registrations.
• Track expiration dates and update licensing requirements related to acquisitions, new locations, closures, and entity or address changes.
• Coordinate the administration and payment of real estate and property taxes across OLS locations.
• Maintain property records, monitor assessment and payment deadlines, reconcile related liabilities, and resolve discrepancies with providers and taxing authorities.
• Coordinate responses to state tax audits, notices, and inquiries.
• Prepare supporting schedules and documentation for tax and financial audits.
• Reconcile sales and use tax liabilities monthly between Net Suite, Avalara, filed returns, and payments.
• Investigate differences and prepare adjusting journal entries and supporting schedules.
• Complete assigned account reconciliations and month-end close activities in accordance with GAAP, OLS policies, and the close calendar.
• Maintain organized electronic records of returns, licenses, tax records, exemption documentation, payment confirmations, and related correspondence.
• Identify opportunities to improve tax, licensing, reconciliation, and documentation processes.
• Escalate material exposures, disputed amounts, and unresolved issues to the Accounting Manager and Controller.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
• At least four years of progressive accounting experience, including a minimum of two years of hands-on multistate sales and use tax compliance experience.
• Working knowledge of GAAP, month-end close procedures, account reconciliations, and sales and use tax processes.
• Experience managing customer resale and exemption certificates.
• Strong analytical and Excel skills, including the ability to reconcile large transaction…