Sales Tax Representative

Sales Tax Representative (Open)

Location:

Long Beach, CA – Management – Regional Office

We are looking for a Sales Tax Representative to assist the West Region Sales Tax Team. This role involves ensuring customers are taxed properly, managing exemption certificates, resolving disputes, and supporting audits.

• Assist the West Sales Tax Team to determine proper taxability of customers and transactions; escalating unresolved issues to the Sales Tax Manager.
• Review and maintain exemption certificates in exemption certificate maintenance software.
• Review and analyze open or pending sales tax dispute cases daily based on client claims, inquiries or tax software reporting indicators.
• Interface with customers to determine validity of tax exemption certificates.
• Request valid exempt certificates or other supporting documents from customers via High Radius letters, email or postal mail.
• Review weekly new accounts report for missing exemption certificates; request letters are mailed out timely and maintained for tracking purposes.
• Provide vendors with properly executed exemption certificates where applicable.
• Provide support during sales and use tax audits.
• Review and analyze automated daily tax dispute reports and support the Tax Team in managing customer sales tax disputes.
• Research sales tax rules and regulations of different states to assist the Sales Tax Manager in determining taxability of materials per customer exemption certificate and nature of business.
• Analyze and reconcile customer accounts relating to sales tax differences to resolve disputes promptly and accurately.
• Other related duties.

• Prior sales and use tax experience in a corporate environment.

• Minimum of one to three years of sales tax and customer relations experience in positions of increasing responsibility.
• Willingness to learn sales and use tax laws and regulations with prior financial type roles.
• Ability to work independently and participate in continuous improvement of processes.

• Experience with SAP and Vertex.
• Associate or Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or related field.

Pay: $27 – $28 an hour.

Airgas offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D), short- and long-term disability, employee assistance program, pre-tax commuter benefit, parental leave, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, jury duty and funeral/bereavement leave, paid holidays, 401(k) with company match, tuition reimbursement, college tuition discounts for eligible employees’ dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Airgas, an Air Liquide Company, is a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Airgas does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations. If you are a person with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation, please contact us by email at us-ac

Recruiter:
Alessandra Manrique – aless /

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