Senior State and Local Tax Accountant

The Senior State & Local Tax (SALT) professional is responsible for managing and overseeing the Company's state and local tax compliance, reporting, research, and audit activities across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions. This position will play a key role in ensuring compliance with state and local income, sales and use, gross receipts, personal property, and other applicable taxes.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on tax professional who can independently research and resolve complex SALT issues, manage external tax providers, identify tax risks and opportunities, and work closely with the Company's accounting, finance, operations, and legal teams.

This role will be particularly important in supporting the Company's continued growth and acquisition activity, including integrating newly acquired businesses and ensuring appropriate state tax registrations, filings, and compliance.

The salary range for this position is $75-100k depending on experience.

• Manage and oversee multi-state and local tax compliance across the Company's legal entities.
• Coordinate preparation and review of state and local tax returns, sales and use tax returns, gross receipts taxes, personal property taxes, and other applicable state and local tax filings.
• Ensure timely completion of tax filings, payments, extensions, estimates, and registrations.
• Maintain state tax calendars and monitor filing requirements across jurisdictions.
• Identify and resolve discrepancies between tax filings, general ledger accounts, and financial reporting.

• Research state and local tax laws and regulations and provide practical recommendations to management.
• Analyze nexus requirements and determine state and local filing and registration obligations.
• Evaluate sales and use taxability of products, services, rentals, and other transactions.
• Assist with determining appropriate sourcing and apportionment methodologies.
• Monitor changes in state and local tax legislation and assess their impact on the Company.
• Prepare technical memoranda and documentation supporting significant SALT positions.
• Partner with accounting and operational teams to ensure tax requirements are properly incorporated into business processes.

• Manage and coordinate state and local tax audits, notices, inquiries, and assessments.
• Serve as a primary contact with state and local taxing authorities and external tax advisors.
• Research and respond to tax notices and proposed assessments.
• Assist with protests, appeals, voluntary disclosures, and other state tax controversy matters as needed.
• Maintain appropriate documentation and support for the Company's state tax positions.

• Support the tax aspects of acquisitions, including state and local tax due diligence.
• Identify potential historical SALT exposures associated with acquired businesses.
• Determine required registrations, filings, and tax accounts for newly acquired entities.
• Assist with integrating acquired companies into the Company's state and local tax compliance processes.
• Work with accounting and finance teams to ensure appropriate tax treatment following acquisitions.
• Assist with identifying opportunities to streamline and standardize SALT processes across acquired businesses.

• Assist with improving and standardizing the Company's SALT processes, procedures, and controls.
• Evaluate and improve the use of tax software, ERP systems, and other technology supporting tax compliance.
• Develop and maintain documentation supporting tax processes and key controls.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual tax processes and improve data quality.
• Reconcile tax accounts…