Sales and Use Tax Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee and direct multiple sales and use tax advisory projects for a varied clientele.

• Provide guidance to clients on intricate sales and use tax issues, such as taxability, nexus, sourcing, exemptions, marketplace challenges, registration obligations, and compliance across states.

• Spot tax savings and planning possibilities, including refund assessments, reverse audits, exemption options, and process enhancements.

• Conduct and supervise multistate nexus and taxability analyses, translating technical results into actionable recommendations.

• Support clients during sales tax audits and disputes, addressing information requests, assessments, technical stances, and state tax authorities.

• Review sales and use tax procedures and suggest improvements concerning data, systems, exemption certificate management, and tax determination.

• Collaborate with Avalara, Vertex, and comparable sales tax technology solutions; aid in their implementation and optimization.

• Investigate state and local tax issues, along with preparing or reviewing technical memoranda, taxability analyses, matrices, correspondence, and other outputs.

• Manage projects from initiation to completion, ensuring adherence to scope, budgets, staffing, timelines, billing, and client communication.

• Cultivate client relationships and act as a reliable resource for finance, tax, accounting, and operational teams.

• Discover growth opportunities and work alongside Elliott Davis professionals on SALT and wider firm resources.

• Engage in business development, proposal writing, prospect meetings, presentations, and thought leadership initiatives.

• Mentor, guide, and supervise SALT professionals.

• Collaborate across the SALT practice on income and franchise tax, credits and incentives, property tax, unclaimed property, and other multistate concerns.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, Business, or a related discipline.

• Approximately 5+ years of pertinent sales and use tax or state and local tax experience.

• Strong technical understanding of multistate sales and use tax principles, including nexus, taxability, exemptions, sourcing, and compliance.

• Capability to manage multiple projects and client relationships simultaneously.

• Ability to identify and cultivate new client opportunities and expand services within existing client relationships.

• Strong research, analytical, written, and verbal communication abilities.

• Experience in reviewing the work of others and providing technical support to professional staff.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

• Preferred: Master’s degree in Accounting, Taxation, or a related field.

• Preferred: CPA, JD, or CMI Sales Tax designation, or progress towards a relevant professional credential.

• Preferred: Experience with Avalara, Vertex, or similar tax automation platforms.

• Preferred: Experience conducting reverse audits, refund assessments, nexus studies, taxability studies, voluntary disclosure agreements, and audit defense.

• Preferred: Background with multistate businesses in manufacturing, distribution, technology/SaaS, construction, or professional services.

• Preferred: Experience in managing and developing professional staff.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous time off and paid firm holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s.

• Flexible work arrangements.

• 16 weeks of paid maternity and adoption leave.

• 8 weeks of paid parental leave.

• 4 weeks of paid caregiver leave (once eligible).

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, including wellness coaching and mental health counseling.

• Personalized professional coaching.

• Leadership and career development programs.

• Access to Beyond, a program offering experiences that enhance your personal and professional life.