Senior Accountant — Multi-State Tax & Close Expert

Skookum Educational Programs; Bremerton (WA); Vor Ort; USD 92.000 - 104.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Tessera, a national leader in creating meaningful employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities and veterans, is seeking a Senior Accountant at our Bremerton, WA home office. You will handle complex accounting, multi-state tax setups, and sales/use tax compliance, partnering across Finance, Payroll, HR, and Operations to establish scalable processes and accurate financial reporting.

The role requires strong analysis, coordination of registrations, and management of monthly,

Aufgaben

• Lead finance-related setup for operations entering new states, including requirements research, registrations, taxability assessment, system configuration, documentation, and readiness validation.
• Coordinate state and local account registrations and ongoing maintenance for applicable sales and use tax, payroll withholding, unemployment, and other business tax accounts.
• Maintain a centralized compliance calendar and state setup matrix documenting registrations, filing frequencies, ownership, deadlines, system status, and supporting records.
• Research state-specific requirements, document conclusions and assumptions, and escalate matters requiring legal, payroll-tax, or indirect-tax advice.
• Serve as the Finance lead for costing allocations and their accounting impacts, including company, cost center, program, project, work location, and other costing attributes.
• Partner with Human Resources and Payroll to review effective-dated transactions for accuracy, completeness, approvals, and alignment with organizational structures; assess downstream impacts to payroll costing, labor distributions, financial reporting, and the general ledger; and lead timely resolution of data, configuration, and reconciliation issues.
• Perform detailed G&A expense analysis, including budget-to-actual and period-over-period variance reviews, trend analysis, forecasting, accrual validation, and allocation assessments by company, cost center, project, supplier, and account. Identify root causes and emerging risks, partner with budget owners on corrective actions, and verify that results reconcile to payroll, subledgers, and the general ledger.
• Coordinate sales and use tax compliance, including taxability research, exemption-certificate management, return preparation or review, payment support, and account reconciliations.

Jobbeschreibung

Tessera, a national leader in creating meaningful employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities and veterans, is seeking a Senior Accountant at our Bremerton, WA home office. You will handle complex accounting, multi-state tax setups, and sales/use tax compliance, partnering across Finance, Payroll, HR, and Operations to establish scalable processes and accurate financial reporting.

The role requires strong analysis, coordination of registrations, and management of monthly,