Senior Tax Accountant

Job Description About ETS:

ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL, TOEIC, GRE and Praxis tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories.

Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide. Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere.

With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.

The Senior Tax Accountant supports the Enterprise Tax Service Group in completing monthly, quarterly, and year-end tax reporting and compliance requirements across ETS’s taxable and tax-exempt entities. The position is the primary support for U.S. indirect tax filings and is the tax function’s day-to-day coordination point with the India Global Capability Center (“GCC”) team on Vertex and the changes affecting U.S. indirect taxes.

Across income tax, exempt-organization, indirect tax, provision, controversy, and research work, the Tax Accountant Sr. prepares and the Tax Manager reviews and approves. The position does not set positions, approve filings, or hold final authority; it is expected to deliver work complete, documented, and reconciled so that review is efficient, and to surface issues early.

The role works day to day with the India GCC team, SBU and Corporate Finance, Accounting Operations, Treasury, Procurement, and Information Technology to obtain data, validate system changes, and understand transactions, and handles routine information requests with external advisors and co-sourcing providers under the Tax Manager’s direction.

Key Responsibilities Serve as the primary support for U.S. indirect tax filings — sales and use, gross receipts, and excise. Prepare returns, reconciliations, and liability account roll-forwards; maintain exemption and resale certificates, registrations, and nexus tracking; and resolve routine filing and payment issues, escalating exceptions to the Tax Manager.

Coordinate with the India GCC team on Vertex as it relates to U.S. indirect taxes. Intake and validate monthly rate and rule content updates, prepare and submit rate change specifications, review taxability mapping Changes, and work with Vertex Leader in India to facilitate and test these changes. Changes are submitted to the Vertex Leader in India for approval before they reach production.

Work with Vertex Leader in India to maintain the Vertex change record for U.S. indirect tax — what changed, who requested it, what testing was performed, and the approval obtained — and validate determination output against source transactions on a recurring basis, investigating variances with the India GCC team and Information Technology and escalating any filing or exposure risk to the Tax Manager.

Support federal, state, and local income and franchise tax compliance for ETS’s taxable subsidiaries. Prepare returns, apportionment schedules, estimated payments, extensions, and supporting work papers for Tax Manager…