Tax Researcher

Company Description Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs.

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence. Collabera offers a full range of benefits to its employees including paid vacations, holidays, personal days, Medical, Dental and Vision insurance, 401K retirement savings plan, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance.

Job Description

Position Details:

Industry: Mass Media Work Location: Carrollton, TX Job Title: Legal Analyst Duration: 3+ month

Summary:

• The Legal Analyst is responsible for the multi-state tax technical research for various products and services, which entails documentation of the states’ laws regarding taxability of these items and maintaining all records to support our taxability position.
• This information will be used to update multiple tax data systems with sales, use, telecommunication, and other special tax rates and rules in U.S. jurisdictions.
• Review and analyze test cases for tax scenarios.

Job responsibilities include:

• Research, analyze, and document sales, use and other special tax rate and rule changes.
• Monitor statutes, legislative activity, and tax publications to stay abreast of changes in laws and regulations affecting sales and use tax.
• Enter tax data changes in multiple tax applications.
• Develop and analyze test cases for tax compliance.
• Correspond with state and local tax authorities.
• Research and write memos on complicated sales tax issues.
• Communicate and work with other internal teams to complete timely and correct tax data updates
• Conduct presentations on areas of content responsibility.
• Perform special projects as assigned by management.

Job and work experience requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, accounting, finance or related field.
• Law degree
• Ability to utilize online research tools (e.g. CCH, Lexis-Nexis, RIA)

Special skills and knowledge requirements:

• Ability to consistently meet rigid and recurring deadlines
• Ability to communicate effectively and handle multiple tasks.
• Knowledge of multi-state sales tax laws and requirements
• Ability to interact successfully with various tax authorities.
• Software systems: Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Access

Additional Information To schedule an interview,

please contact: Monil Narayan, 973-929-3861