Business Title: Senior Associate, Excise Tax

Requisition Number: 111534 - 90

Function: Tax Services

Area of Interest:

State: TX

City: Houston

Description:

At KPMG, you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the world's top tax firms. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMG's extensive network of specialists enjoy access to our Ignition Centers, where deep industry knowledge merges with cutting-edge technologies to create innovative tax solutions. Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through a range of multifaceted engagements, formal training, and informal mentoring. At KPMG, we believe nothing is more important than investing in our culture because it's an investment in our people, our future, and what we stand for as a firm

KPMG is currently seeking a SALT Senior Associate to join our State and Local Tax (SALT) practice.

Responsibilities:

Review sales, use and motor fuel excise tax data received monthly from KPMG compliance clients to determine if it is in the proper format for input into KPMGs mechanized tax processing systems

Arrange the monthly data received into the proper tax location codes, tax types, tax categories, authority levels, taxpayer entities and tax amounts

Apply client specific business rules to the tax data received from tax compliance clients to modify the data for input into KPMG mechanized tax processing systems

Once the data is ready for input, process the data for the returns using one or more of KPMGs mechanized tax systems

Identify, document, and recommend client technological business requirements for sales, use, and motor fuel excise tax compliance processes, and system improvements

Design, test and troubleshoot indirect tax technology solutions developed using Microsoft Access, Excel, or SQL Server

Qualifications:

Minimum three years of recent experience performing tax research, reviewing state motor fuel excise tax returns, and providing technical advice on multi-state tax issues specific to the motor fuel excise taxes

Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, management information systems or a related course of study from an accredited college/university

Development knowledge using Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Access, and experience developing in .NET is preferred

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Access, SQL Server, XML, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, or process mapping software

Strong skills in indirect tax information systems, including strong project management skills and the ability to analyze client business needs

Experience in reviewing and working with transaction tax data received from the billing systems of companies with motor fuel excise taxes; working knowledge of federal, state, and motor fuel excise taxes imposed in the United States

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