Senior Consultant, Sales and Use Tax

Why Ryan?

• Hybrid Work Options

• Award-Winning Culture

• Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits

• 14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)

• Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement

• Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One

• 401K with Employer Match

• Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service

• Fertility Assistance Program

• Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service

Job Summary:

The Sales and Use Tax Senior Consultant (“Senior Consultant”) works with a team to identify tax savings opportunities for clients and to gain an understanding of how the client computes each component of sales and use tax. This includes researching issues, reconciling databases, and completing detailed calculations.

Duties and responsibilities, as they align to Ryan’s Key Results

People:

• Create a positive team experience.

Client:

• Reviews and reconciles client data downloads and identifies tax issues to research.
• Performs data downloads from client’s accounting system.
• Develops review schedules and checklist from client data downloads.
• Travels to client locations to gather and copy tax returns, invoices, purchase orders, and other documentation to use in the audit refund process.
• Responds to client inquiries and requests from state agencies.

Value:

• Assists Manager in developing project workplans and scheduling associated project deliverables.
• Negotiates tax resolutions with state agencies.
• Drafts filings, such as petitions for redetermination, refund claims, and various other administrative replies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree or equivalent in Accounting and/or Finance with two to four years audit or tax related experience.

Computer Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must have intermediate knowledge of Microsoft® Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet navigation and research.

Certificates and Licenses:

Valid driver’s license required. 

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Requires limited supervisory responsibilities, including training employees, assigning work, and checking work for accuracy and completeness.

Work Environment:

• Standard indoor working environment.
• Occasional long periods of sitting while working at computer.
• Occasional long periods of standing while copying.
• Position requires regular interaction with employees and clients both in person and via e-mail and telephone.
• Independent travel requirement: up to 10-15%.
• 50+ hour standard workweek requirement.

Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran