Senior Indirect Tax Accountant - Multistate & Process Lead

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Tax Accountant for the 02S business unit to manage multistate sales and use tax and related indirect taxes across transactions, locations, customers, and legal entities.

The role collaborates with 02S Accounting, Corporate Tax, Operations, and external advisors to ensure accurate tax compliance and effective controls. The Senior Tax Accountant will build scalable processes, assist with registrations and filings, and drive improvements in tax

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant tax or accounting experience, with meaningful experience in multistate sales and use tax or other indirect taxes preferred.
• CPA certification or other relevant tax credential preferred.
• Experience with customer-facing transactions such as direct sales, equipment rental or rerental, distribution, fuel, logistics, or similar activities preferred.
• Experience with taxability research, exemption and resale certificates, transaction-tax filings, and audits.
• Experience with ERP, billing, tax-calculation, or certificate-management systems; CMiC or T3 is a plus.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and data reconciliation.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing deadlines, and navigate complex issues to implement practical solutions.
• Excellent organizational, project-management, and time-management skills.
• Strong accounting, judgment, organization, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with business leaders, operational teams, Corporate Tax, external advisors, and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Manage multistate sales and use tax compliance across 02S products, services, locations, and transaction types.
• Research and document taxability, sourcing, registration, licensing, and collection requirements
• Prepare, review, and submit monthly, quarterly, and annual sales and use tax and other applicable transaction-tax returns and payments, coordinating 02S activity with Corporate Tax reporting and filing processes.
• Review invoices and maintain CMiC and related tax data for accurate rates, sourcing, exemptions, accruals, and reporting.
• Own exemption and resale certificate processes, including validation, tracking, retention, and audit support.
• Maintain tax-sensitive CMiC and related system data, including coding by pillar, product line, project, location, and transaction type to support accurate tax calculation, invoicing, accruals, reconciliations, and reporting.
• Reconcile tax collected, accrued, and payable to the general ledger, billing, job data, and filed returns.
• Monitor new activities, states, customers, billing processes, and entity changes before implementation.
• Coordinate audits and notices; develop controls, procedures, training, and practical guidance while managing external advisor work.
• Develop and improve policies, procedures, internal controls, training, and reporting for 02S indirect tax compliance.
• Assist in managing external advisors, including defining requested deliverables, reviewing work product, tracking open issues, and translating technical conclusions into practical operating procedures.
• Provide guidance to 02S Accounting, Operations, project teams, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and other stakeholders on transaction-tax requirements and related process changes.
• Work on ad hoc tax research, analysis, reporting, and special projects as needed.

Skills

Multistate tax

CPA certification

Excel skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Tools

CMiC

T3

ERP/tax software

Job description

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Tax Accountant for the 02S business unit to manage multistate sales and use tax and related indirect taxes across transactions, locations, customers, and legal entities.

The role collaborates with 02S Accounting, Corporate Tax, Operations, and external advisors to ensure accurate tax compliance and effective controls. The Senior Tax Accountant will build scalable processes, assist with registrations and filings, and drive improvements in tax