Job Description
Job Title: Sales Tax Specialist
Direct Hire Opportunity
Salary Range: $100K - $110K/Year
Full-time | Remote - NYC Metropolitan Area, NY 10001
Job Description:
Sales Tax Specialist (US)
Compliance & Reporting
Qualifications:
Knowledge & Skills:
Direct Hire Opportunity
Salary Range: $100K - $110K/Year
Full-time | Remote - NYC Metropolitan Area, NY 10001
Job Description:
Sales Tax Specialist (US)
- The Sales Tax Specialist will report to the CFO and work within the Finance team to manage all aspects of U.S.
- state and local sales and use tax compliance.
- The role is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely filing across multiple jurisdictions, managing the company s nexus footprint, supporting audits and controversy, and maintaining tax automation systems.
- The Specialist will partner closely with all relevant stakeholders to ensure indirect tax obligations are met and risks are proactively managed.
Compliance & Reporting
- Prepare, review, and file multi-state sales and use tax returns (monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles) across 30+ jurisdictions.
- Calculate tax liabilities, review GL account reconciliations, and ensure timely remittance to taxing authorities.
- Maintain a compliance calendar and monitor filing deadlines, extensions, and payment due dates.
- Manage exemption certificate collection, validation, and storage preferably with experience using a certificate management system (e.G. Avalara CertCapture, EXEMPTAX, or similar).
- Monitor the company s economic nexus footprint across all States and applicable territories following South Dakota v. Wayfair.
- Research product and service taxability questions and document conclusions in internal tax memos.
- Evaluate the tax impact of new products, services, business lines, and acquisitions.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for State and local sales tax audits;coordinate document requests and draft responses.
- Identify and quantify potential audit exposures;recommend and implement risk mitigation strategies.
- Manage voluntary disclosure agreements (VDAs) and amended filings where required.
- Recommend, administer and maintain tax automation software (Avalara AvaTax, Vertex O Series, or equivalent) including rate updates, product mappings, and nexus settings.
- Partner with IT and ERP teams on system upgrades, integrations, and testing for sales tax logic.
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures for all compliance processes.
- Advise internal stakeholders (Sales, Operations, Finance) on sales tax implications of transactions and contracts.
- Support the annual tax provision process by providing accurate indirect tax accrual data.
- Assist with due diligence on mergers and acquisitions from an indirect tax perspective.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or an equivalent qualification.
- CMI (Certified Member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation) designation preferred, or active pursuit.
- desirable.
Knowledge & Skills:
- 3 5 years of direct, hands-on U.S. Sales and use tax compliance experience.
- Working knowledge of multi-state nexus rules, including economic nexus thresholds post-Wayfair.
- Experience with a major tax automation platform (Avalara, Vertex, Client ONESOURCE, or similar).
- Familiarity with Streamlined Sales Tax (SST) registration and compliance.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, data validation).
- Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle NetSuite, or Microsoft Dynamics desirable.
- Exposure to marketplace facilitator rules and e-commerce or SaaS taxability a plus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with superior attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent deadlines under pressure.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;able to explain tax concepts to non-tax stakeholders.
- Energetic, self-motivated, and committed to continuous learning and process improvement.
- Committed to good corporate governance, integrity, and professional discretion.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | New York, NY |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $100,000 |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.lancesoft.com/ |
About Company
We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc).
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
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