Revenue Tax Auditor

Join the Bureau of Audits, Pittsburgh Regional Office as a Revenue Tax Auditor and help support fair and accurate tax practices across Pennsylvania. This role allows you to grow your skills while working with a wide range of taxpayers and businesses. You will contribute to the agency mission by ensuring that audits are completed with care and integrity. This is an opportunity to build a meaningful career while serving your community.

This position focuses on learning how to conduct field audits that check taxpayer compliance with state tax laws and regulations. It involves reviewing records, preparing audit plans, and working directly with taxpayers and their representatives. As a Revenue Tax Auditor, you will perform the following duties:

• Audit Preparation: Review taxpayer history and plan audit steps
• Record Analysis: Examine books and financial documents to determine tax accuracy
• Field Work: Inspect facilities and meet with representatives to verify operations
• Audit Documentation: Draft clear narratives, schedules, and reports that explain findings
• Taxpayer
  
  Education:
  
  Provide guidance to improve future tax reporting practices
• Training Support: Share knowledge with other auditors during on-the-job instruction

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

• Full-time employment
• Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30-minute lunch.
• Telework: You may have the opportunity to work from home (telework) part-time, ad hoc, upon successful completion of the in-office training period of 30 days, based on operational and field work scheduling needs. In order to telework, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania. If you are unable to telework, you will have the option to report to the headquarters office in Pittsburgh.
  
  The ability to telework is subject to change at any time. Additional details may be provided during the interview.
• Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

• Successful completion of the Revenue Tax Auditor Trainee program (Commonwealth job title or equivalent Federal Government job title, as determined by the Office of Administration);
  or
• One year of professional accounting or auditing experience and a bachelor’s degree including or supplemented by 15 college credits in accounting, tax, or auditing;
  or
• Eligibility to sit for the Certified Public Accountant examination.

• You must reside in or be willing to relocate to Lawrence, Butler, Armstrong, Allegheny, Westmoreland, Beaver, Washington, Greene, or Fayette County before the date of hire.
• You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

• This position will have access to Federal Tax Information (FTI) and is subject to the provisions of IRS Publication 1075 (Pub 1075) which requires you to pass an enhanced background check prior to beginning employment. Under Pub 1075, acceptance of a conditional offer of employment will require submission to and approval of satisfactory criminal history reports, including but not limited to: a fingerprint-based federal records check;
  
  a PA State Police clearance; a check of local law enforcement agencies where you have lived, worked, and/or attended school within the last five (5) years; and a citizenship/residency verification.

• Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. §7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and click on Veterans.

• 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).

If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.

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