Tax Compliance Expert - AI Trainer

Obsidian; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian is building a high-quality library of corporate tax work products. You will complete self-contained tax exercises from mock files and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.

You will work on ASC 740 provisions, returns, transfer pricing, and international regimes, with opportunities to develop expertise in GILTI, BEAT, FDII, and complex tax analyses.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in corporate income tax.
• Depth in at least one area: provision/compliance, international/transfer pricing, or M&A tax.

Responsibilities

• Build quarterly and annual income tax provisions under ASC 740 with current and deferred calculations and rate reconciliation.
• Prepare returns and supporting workpapers across federal, state apportionment and international regimes, and forecast cash taxes by jurisdiction.
• Produce technical computations and studies: GILTI, FDII, BEAT, Pillar Two, 163(j) limitation, and NOL analyses.
• Build transfer pricing master file and local file documentation with intercompany agreement review.
• Diligence of exposures and attributes, structuring memos, and documented tax positions including FIN 48 reserves.

Skills

Corporate income tax experience

Provision and compliance

International tax

Transfer pricing

M&A tax

Education

CPA

J.D. or LLM in Taxation

EA

CTA

Job description

About the work

We're building a high-quality library of corporate tax work products. You'll complete self-contained tax exercises from mock files (trial balances, intercompany agreements, deal documents) and produce the deliverable for each, graded against a rubric.

What you'll do

• Build quarterly and annual income tax provisions under ASC 740 with current and deferred calculations and rate reconciliation.
• Prepare returns and supporting workpapers across federal, state apportionment and international regimes, and forecast cash taxes by jurisdiction.
• Produce technical computations and studies: GILTI, FDII, BEAT, Pillar Two, 163(j) limitation, and net operating loss and attribute analysis.
• Build transfer pricing master file and local file documentation with intercompany agreement and policy review.
• Work transaction tax: diligence of exposures and attributes, structuring memos, and documented tax positions including FIN 48 reserves.

You're a fit if you have

• 4+ years in corporate income tax, in-house or Big 4.
• Depth in at least one of: provision and compliance, international and transfer pricing, or M&A tax.

Nice to have

• CPA; JD or LLM in Taxation; EA; CTA. Tax equity and HLBV modeling experience.

Assessment

An ASC 740 provision from a mock trial balance; a transfer pricing benchmarking memo; a deal tax structuring recommendation.

Note:

this is corporate income tax. Individual return preparation, payroll tax, and sales-tax-only backgrounds are out of scope.