U.S. Indirect Tax Manager
Manages the U.S. indirect tax function across a complex multi-state SaaS environment, covering compliance, audits, technical tax analysis, reconciliations, and tax-engine optimization. Requires at least five years of progressive indirect-tax experience and strong analytical and communication skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Advise internal business partners on complex sales and use tax matters across multiple jurisdictions.
- Analyze and interpret state and local tax laws, regulations, and administrative guidance, including matters involving SaaS, digital products, and evolving tax frameworks.
- Evaluate ambiguous tax-law issues and support consistent, audit-ready positions.
- Review externally prepared sales and use tax returns for numerical accuracy and overall reasonableness.
- Prepare and maintain sales tax account reconciliations for accurate balance-sheet reporting.
- Manage U.S. indirect tax compliance, including business license tax, gross receipts tax, property tax, and related state and local filings.
- Identify systemic issues, risk areas, and control gaps across reports, systems, and filings.
- Lead state and local sales and use tax audits, including auditor interaction, negotiation of findings, and dispute resolution.
- Develop and defend audit positions with clear technical rationale and supporting documentation.
- Extend and optimize OneSource tax-engine configuration for accurate use-tax calculation and compliance workflows.
- Partner with Accounting, Accounts Payable, and Procurement on indirect-tax questions and business processes.
Requirements
- Strong technical foundation in U.S. indirect tax within complex, multi-state environments.
- Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in indirect tax.
- Experience reviewing sales and use tax returns, including evaluating accuracy and the reasonableness of positions taken.
- Experience managing audits and communicating with taxing authorities and internal stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal, accounting, and time-management skills.
- Ability to exercise sound judgment and think critically in ambiguous or evolving tax situations.
- Ability to work independently and drive projects to completion.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Hands-on experience with OneSource and NetSuite strongly preferred.
- CPA preferred.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience supporting SaaS business models.
- A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset.
- Experience identifying process improvements and strengthening controls across systems and workflows.
Skills
Indirect Tax, Sales Tax, Use Tax, SaaS, Onesource, NetSuite, Tax Compliance, Tax Audits, State And Local Tax, Tax Reconciliation, Property Tax, Gross Receipts Tax, Accounting, CPA
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