Sales and Use Tax Staff Accountant
ABM Industries
Sugar Land, TX
Overview
As part of the Sales & Use Tax team, this role assists in all stages of the sales and use tax compliance process – data gathering, return preparation, timely filings of assigned returns, payment requests and reconciliations. This position will also assist in providing technical tax guidance for internal customers on various business transactions and assist on indirect tax audits.
Benefit Information:
ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit Employee Benefits | Staff & Management
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Accurate and timely filing of monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, and annual preparation of sales and use tax returns, as well as some GST (ABM’s geographic footprint includes all 50 states and most Canadian provinces).
- Prepare check requests and/or wire payments for corresponding tax returns.
- Maintain and update tax calendar.
- Assist in requesting new tax registrations as directed.
- Respond directly to taxing authorities as assigned.
- Communicate with internal and external customers on technical sales and use tax matters on a wide variety of business transactions and contemplated transactions.
- Review and research taxability of internal tax codes as necessary.
- Assist in the maintenance of sales/use tax certificates utilizing third party tax program.
- Prepare account reconciliations of the sales and use tax accounts.
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize information is critical.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is required.
- Minimum of 3 years of multi-state sales and use tax experience, or 3 years plus 2 years of accounting experience.
- Experience with Vertex sales and use tax preparation software is preferred. Vertex O Series is a plus.
- Experience researching multi-state transaction tax issues.
- Experience working with revenue/tax agencies for state and local jurisdictions.
- Understanding of legal entity reporting structures.
- Proficient with MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access), advanced Excel skill preferred.
- Knowledge of PivotTables and VLOOKUPs, a plus.
- Experience with JD Edwards, Oracle, or other ERP, preferred
About the Company
ABM Industries
ABM offers a wide variety of service-related positions, including electricians, HVAC technicians, security officers, parking attendants, and cleaning jobs. ABM cares about your success.
We provide training so that you learn new job skills and take pride in the quality service you're giving to clients. You'll look like the trained professional you are when you wear a ABM uniform.For your health and safety, we use non-toxic cleaning products and up-to-date equipment.
Our internal training program focuses on teaching you the skills and processes that have helped many of our employees starting out as a janitor, cashier, security officer or building engineer grow into various management roles throughout the company. These jobs aren't your everyday at ABM; they are careers.
Thousands of commercial, industrial, government and retail clients look to ABM for consistent quality service that meets their specialized facility service needs including commercial cleaning and maintenance, facility engineering, energy efficiency, parking and security services.
With fiscal 2011 revenues of approximately $4.2 billion and nearly 100,000 employees, our 300+ offices across the U.S. and various international locales enable us to provide custom facility solutions to sites of all sizes — from neighborhood banks and schools to the largest and most complex facilities, such as corporate office parks and major airports.
With more than 300+ offices located throughout the country, we are always accepting applications for janitorial maintenance, landscaping gardeners, security guards, parking attendants, shuttle drivers and building engineers.
ABM IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER (MINORITY/FEMALE/VETERAN/DISABILITY)