Job Description

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Senior Cost Accountant

$85,000 - $100,000/year

WHO YOU ARE:

A detail-oriented and highly organized accounting professional with a deep understanding of multi-state tax compliance and financial reporting. Known for your reliability and accuracy, you thrive in fast-paced environments where deadlines matter. You bring strong analytical skills and a sharp eye for identifying discrepancies across complex, multi-jurisdictional filings. Your excellent communication skills make you an effective collaborator across departments, and you approach every challenge with a problem-solving mindset. You are committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and confidentiality while helping the organization stay ahead of its compliance obligations.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

Revenue & Tax Compliance:

• Prepare monthly reconciliations ensuring revenue reported in sales and consumer use tax returns (e-filed via Avalara) aligns with the Company’s financial ledgers, and work cross-functionally to resolve process variances.
• Prepare and file monthly sales and consumer use tax returns for acquired entities until integration into the Company’s ERP is complete.
• Compile fiscal-year-to-date sales-by-state data (origin and destination) to support state apportionment calculations.
• Monitor annual sales by state to identify jurisdictions requiring new tax registrations (Nexus).
• Serve as primary user/administrator of Avalara’s Avatax software.
• Record and reconcile tax liabilities for sales/use tax and other non-income tax obligations (business tax, commercial activity tax, commerce tax, etc.).

Business Personal Property:

• Serve as primary point of contact with the Company’s third-party preparer for annual property tax renditions.
• Record and reconcile tax liabilities for business personal property and leased real properties (single, double, and triple net).
• Prepare 13-week property tax payment forecasts and submit to Treasury; initiate and document all property tax payments.
• Generate monthly fixed asset and depreciation reports required for state and federal income tax return preparation.

Customer Credits & Unclaimed Property:

• Track and analyze unapplied credit balances in trade receivable accounts.
• Collaborate with revenue cycle functions to minimize the Company’s tax exposure for unclaimed property and escheatment.

Audit & Regulatory Support:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for state and local tax authorities during desk reviews, inquiries, and audits.
• Compile revenue, asset, and ledger data requested by the Company’s third-party preparers for state, federal, and foreign income tax returns.
• Initiate all income tax-related payments (extensions, estimates, returns) and properly document and record them.
• Record and reconcile the Company’s tax liabilities for state, federal, and foreign income taxes.

Internal Controls & Compliance:

• Perform detailed reconciliations of compliance-related balance sheet accounts to ensure data integrity.
• Enforce processes and policies that mitigate financial risk and prevent fraud.
• Compile necessary documentation, schedules, and workpapers for external audits (local, state, federal, and financial).

Collaboration & Support:

• Partner with cross-functional departments to address unexpected variances or inquiries and implement corrective action.
• Comprehend multi-state taxation of revenue and assets to provide accurate guidance across the organization.

SKILLS YOU BRING:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required
• Minimum 3–5 years of progressive accounting/finance experience, ideally including exposure to taxation, regulatory compliance, or financial reporting
• Strong quantitative analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Strong proficiency with MS Office, particularly advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUPs, SUMIFS, pivot tables, text-to-columns, etc.)
• Understanding of GAAP application and compliance
• Experience working with PE companies a plus
• Large ERP software exposure, especially MS Dynamics AX, a plus
• Experience with SQL a plus