Tax Analyst

Thomas Reuters; Ann Arbor (MI); Hybrid; USD 56,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is searching for a skilled Tax Analyst to join their dynamic team in Ann Arbor. This role offers the chance to leverage your tax expertise in a flexible environment that prioritizes goal achievement over task completion. You will be instrumental in analyzing tax laws, designing user interfaces for tax software, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulations. With a commitment to innovation and employee well-being, this opportunity promises professional growth and a chance to make a meaningful impact in the tax software industry.

Benefits

Flexible vacation

Mental Health Days

Tuition reimbursement

Employee incentive programs

Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks

Paid volunteer days off

Qualifications

• 3+ years of individual tax preparation or technical support experience.
• Extensive knowledge of individual tax law and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Analyze tax forms and laws to keep software current.
• Design client interfaces and test software products.

Skills

Individual Tax Preparation

Tax Law Analysis

Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Detail-Oriented

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting

Tools

ADO Workflow Software

Job description

Tax Analyst

We are looking for an experienced Individual Tax professional to join our development team. As a Tax Analyst with Thomson Reuters, you will make an immediate impact on how our clients accomplish their work. You will participate in the design, development, and testing of our UltraTax CS Tax product line using in-house development tools. In this role, you will collect, analyze, and prioritize requirements from various entities to include external taxing authorities and our internal sources – all in an effort to provide the most reliable tax software in the industry.

Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Thomson Reuters offers an alternative career path for experienced Tax Professionals. As a Tax Analyst, you will utilize your tax knowledge and experience in a unique, flexible work environment - where the focus is on accomplishing goals rather than just completing tasks. If you like to have control over your daily work and contribute as a part of a team, then this opportunity may be for you.

About the Role:

In this opportunity as a Tax Analyst, you will:

• Analyze tax forms and related laws to ensure our software is kept current
• Design the client interface, such as input/output screens, in our tax products
• Anticipate and assess the impact of proposed regulatory developments to stay ahead of changes in laws and regulations impacting our tax products
• Write and/or communicate design and system flow specifications for software engineers utilizing ADO workflow software
• Test software products
• Write/update help documentation and work with our Content team of writers to implement into the software
• Provide assistance and share knowledge to our Customer Success team during peak season so they can support our users in an efficient manner.

About You:

You're a fit for this role of Tax Analyst, if your background includes:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent experience
• Three or more years of recent individual income tax preparation and/or review experience or significant multi-year experience providing technical support to end users of tax software
• Extensive knowledge of individual tax law
• Detail-oriented with an aptitude for analysis and problem-solving including the ability to interpret, analyze, and organize detailed individual tax law
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills as well as computer skills

Desired Experience:

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
• Enrolled Agent (EA)
• Three or more years of partnership and/or S Corporation tax preparation experience a plus
• Experience with electronic filing of tax returns
• Experience with tax planning and client advisory a plus
• State, city, and local income tax preparation a plus

What’s in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceed the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws.

Finally, Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For any eligible US locations, unless otherwise noted, the base compensation range for this role is $56,000 - $104,000. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.