Tax Specialist - Indirect Tax

Tax Data Analyst

 Sangoma is one of the fastest-growing Business Class Unified Communications firms in the world.  Our core purpose: to reshape the ways productive people collaborate and cooperate and to make each of us more powerful and enabled in our working lives.  We are currently looking to add a Tax Data Analyst professional to your team.  Sangoma products are sold through a diversified network of partners which include distributors, master agents, managed service providers, and certified installers.

Your Role:

• Maintain and reconcile GL Tracker daily and monthly reflecting all tax liabilities, adjustments, penalties, discounts, and payments; prepares recurring journal entries and adjusting entries when discrepancies are found between tax tracker and GL accounts. Using advanced Excel skills updates GL Tracker with taxes as calculated by EZTax.  Populates, reconciles, analyzes and summarizes the Cumulative Detail report using advanced Excel skills such as vlookups, pivot tables.  Verifies accuracy and completeness against underlying data and resolves discrepancies.
• Analyze invoices received by the tax department to ensure accuracy and prompt payment, tracks projects to projected fees; Maintain historical records of all tax and regulatory fee payments made
• Maintain and update Tax Calendar for all returns/filings due, exercising judgment and application of tax and regulatory rules to determine correct tax accounts, filing frequencies and monitor for rate and law changes.
• Maintain Rollforward schedules for all tax accounts to facilitate the monthly reconciliation to the GL. Accurately combine data obtained from various data silos into a single schedule in order to reconcile the tax liabilities recorded in the tax sub-ledger to General Ledger. 
• Prepare accurate funding requests for monthly filings of 3^rd party prepared tax returns. Examines accounts used on Cumulative Detail report and compares to GL Accounts assuring accurate matching.
• Through monitoring tax notices, law and rules, identify new and/or revised filing requirements and determine appropriate process changes for implementation to maintain complete and timely compliance filings.
• Identify processor internal control weaknesses and coordinate existing and establish new or revised processes with tax compliance vendor (currently Avalara F/K/A EZtax)
• Determines appropriate new internal codes, work with accounts payable to set up new vendor codes, and receive tax return information for all new taxing jurisdictions. Prepares, reconciles, analyzes and provides upload file to AP for a timely closing.
•  Using Excel summarizes monthly data from the GL Tracker and Cumulative Detail reports to prepare and analyze monthly tax liability entry. 
• Prepare tax account reconciliation summaries for approximately 20 Balance Sheet and P&L accounts. Utilizes advanced accounting and tax specific knowledge to determine appropriate accounts and amounts for tax and financial reporting purposes.  Makes recommendations to improve the reporting and reconciling process.
• Assist with other tax related projects as assigned
• Maintain Bank Tracker using advanced Excel skills, exercises transaction recall as well as tax and regulatory rules, verifies balances to GL Accounts, calculates interest and monitors balances pursuant to complex bank covenants under the existing Credit Facility for approximately 450 tax types

  Your Background:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting is highly desired.
• Two to four years of transaction tax or large data set processing related work experience
• Sound tax technical knowledge and researching skills
• Advanced computer and excel skills (pivot tables, vlookups, hlookups, concatenate), google apps a plus. 
• Working knowledge of accounting concepts and principles such as consistency and matching revenue and expenses and procedures such as cash to accrual adjustments to enable account analysis, reconciliation and account true-ups.
• Detail oriented while being aware of the big picture, must be able to recall information from prior transactions
• Highly organized and possess a work ethic that matches the ability to meet strict deadlines and be able to work effectively under constant time pressure.

Why Sangoma?

• Extensive Benefit Options (Health, Vision, Dental, Long & Short term Disability) effective after a short waiting period
• Flexible PTO plan & Company Holidays
• Subsidized onsite healthy food choices
• Culture Perks: Multiple Special Interest Groups, Activities Team, New Mom & Quiet Rooms, and Team Building Events
• Entrepreneurial work environment partnered with high growth career opportunities

Sangoma is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship status, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, compensation, benefits, training, termination, promotions, or any other condition of employment or career development.

You must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer. No agencies, Please.

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