Senior Manager, Sales & Use Tax

KPMG LLP; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

KPMG LLP is actively seeking a Senior Manager to join our State and Local Tax (SALT) practice in San Francisco. You will lead multi-state tax projects, oversee client engagements, and guide staff through complex SALT issues including compliance, planning, and controversy management.

The role requires strong tax research skills, extensive experience with multi-state taxation, and the ability to develop business opportunities.

Qualifications

• Minimum eight years of tax research and multi-state tax experience.
• Bachelor’s degree; CPA, EA, JD/LLM, MST or CMI credential or on approved list.
• Strong knowledge of the development, planning and execution of sales and transactions tax refund claims.
• Experience with other corporate taxes and their impact on sales tax.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent client service to multi-state companies with SALT issues including compliance, planning, reporting and audits.
• Partner with clients in analyzing state tax considerations related to business restructuring and intercompany transactions.
• Lead SALT controversies, including hearings, protests and interactions with auditors.
• Supervise, mentor and develop staff; participate in business development and service delivery.

Skills

Tax research

Multi-state tax

Client service

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

CPA/EA/JD/MST or CMI credential

Job description

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

Responsibilities:

• Provide excellent client service to multi-state companies with state and local sales/use tax issues including reverse audits, compliance, tax planning, automation technology, research and writing, multi-jurisdictional reporting, and controversies/audit defense
• Partner with multi-state companies in analyzing state tax considerations/impacts related to business restructuring projects and intercompany transactions
• Work with multi-state companies in state and local tax (SALT) controversies, which includes preparing clients for discussions with auditors, representing the client at hearings and at appeal meetings, and preparing protests
• Supervise, mentor and develop staff members
• Participate in the business development, management and delivery of SALT services

Qualifications:

• Minimum eight years of recent experience in providing tax research and technical advice on multi-state issues
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university; licensed CPA, EA, JD/LLM, MST (Master's in Taxation) or a certified member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (CMI) designation for non-CPA eligible candidates, in addition to others on KPMG’s approved credential listing; any individual who does not possess at least one of the approved designations/credentials when their employment commences, has one year from their date of hire to obtain at least one of the approved designations/credentials; should you like to see the complete list of currently approved designations/credentials for the hiring practice/service line, your recruiter can provide you with that list
• Strong knowledge of the development, planning and execution of sales and transactions tax refund claims
• Experience with various other corporate taxes and their impact on sales tax