Tax Advisor

Vaco LLC; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco is seeking a Tax Advisor to support tax compliance, research, accounting, and advisory activities across the organization. This role partners with business and finance teams to help ensure accurate tax reporting and identify potential tax risks and opportunities.

The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in tax, the ability to research unfamiliar issues, analyze data, and work across state and local taxes. Experience with tax technology or ERP systems is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience in state and local taxes is a plus.
• Strong general tax foundation and analytical skills.
• Ability to research tax issues and translate guidance into business recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and review recurring tax filings across jurisdictions.
• Research federal, state, and local tax laws and guidance.
• Assist with tax audits, notices, and information requests.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to strengthen tax processes.

Skills

Tax research

Financial data analysis

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Tax

CPA preferred

Tools

ERP systems

Tax technology

Job description

Tax Advisor

Position Overview

The Tax Advisor supports a variety of tax compliance, research, accounting, and advisory activities across the organization. This role partners with business and finance teams to help ensure accurate tax reporting, maintain compliance, identify potential tax risks and opportunities, and provide practical guidance on business transactions and operational matters.

The ideal candidate brings a strong foundation in tax with the ability to research unfamiliar issues, analyze financial and operational data, and work across multiple areas of taxation. Experience with state and local taxes, including sales and use tax, property tax, fuel and mileage taxes, or other operational taxes, is a plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and review recurring tax filings across applicable jurisdictions, ensuring returns and supporting documentation are accurate and completed on time.
• Reconcile tax return data, assessments, payments, and related general ledger accounts, investigating and resolving discrepancies as needed.
• Support tax accruals, accounting entries, account reconciliations, and other tax-related financial reporting activities.
• Research federal, state, and local tax laws, regulations, administrative guidance, and tax authority publications to evaluate the tax treatment of business transactions.
• Provide practical tax guidance to accounting, finance, procurement, accounts payable, legal, technology, operations, real estate, fleet, and other business partners.
• Review financial and operational data to identify potential tax exposures, exemptions, refund opportunities, process improvements, and compliance considerations.
• Assist with tax audits, notices, assessments, and information requests by gathering supporting documentation, researching technical issues, analyzing exposure, and preparing responses.
• Analyze proposed assessments, penalties, interest, valuation issues, and other tax adjustments and provide recommendations for resolution.
• Support the administration and documentation of applicable tax exemptions and other tax-saving opportunities.
• Partner with outside tax providers and other third parties, reviewing their work and identifying opportunities to improve processes or bring activities in-house where appropriate.
• Identify recurring tax, data, coding, filing, payment, or reconciliation issues and recommend improvements to procedures, controls, workpapers, and reporting processes.
• Support tax technology, systems, and data initiatives, including system implementations, testing, data queries, reporting enhancements, and improvements to tax-related fields and processes.
• Assist with special projects related to transactions, entity or facility changes, asset movements, registrations, data clean-up, system changes, or other business activities with tax implications.
• Develop and maintain tax documentation, procedures, workpapers, training materials, and job aids.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to strengthen tax processes, controls, documentation, and overall compliance.
• Perform other tax-related responsibilities and special projects as assigned.

Preferred Experience

Candidates do not need experience in every area below. Exposure to one or more of the following would be beneficial:

• State and local taxation
• Sales and use tax
• Property tax
• Fuel and mileage tax
• Highway use or motor carrier taxes
• Tax compliance and return preparation/review
• Tax research and technical analysis
• Tax audits and controversy support
• Tax accounting and reconciliations
• Exemption analysis and administration
• Tax technology or ERP-related tax processes
• Multi-state tax compliance
• Working with third-party tax compliance providers

Ideal Profile

• Strong general tax foundation with an interest in developing broader tax expertise
• Comfortable researching tax issues and translating technical guidance into practical business recommendations
• Strong analytical and reconciliation skills
• Able to work with large amounts of financial and operational dataDetail-oriented with strong organizational skills and the ability to manage recurring deadlines
• Comfortable partnering across accounting, finance, operations, technology, legal, and other functions
• Able to identify process gaps and recommend practical improvements

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