Required Skills & Experience
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. Approximately 4–5+ years of overall tax experience, ideally with a generalist foundation. At least 1–2 years of hands-on sales and use tax experience. Experience working with multi-state tax requirements. Experience across all 50 states is not required. Understanding of how sales and use tax applies to different transactions and business situations. Experience in either corporate/private industry or public accounting environments. Corporate tax experience is preferred. Experience with Avalara is strongly preferred; comparable indirect tax technology experience will also be considered. Experience supporting tax-related configuration within an ERP environment is a plus. CPA, MST, MBA, or similar advanced credential is preferred but not required.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is:
Hands-on and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage a high volume of tax activity and deadlines. Comfortable operating in a role where every day may look different. Flexible and able to shift priorities during busy filing periods. Comfortable with the natural peaks and valleys of a tax calendar, particularly around month-end and property tax filing season. Analytical enough to research tax issues while also being practical enough to apply those findings to real business transactions. Able to work independently while partnering effectively with internal teams and external tax providers. Interested in improving processes through technology, automation, and AI-enabled workflows.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Indirect Tax Manager to join a growing finance and tax organization. This individual will play a key role in managing sales and use tax compliance, supporting multi-state tax requirements, preparing tax filings, and ensuring accurate reporting and reconciliation.
This is a hands-on individual contributor position well suited for someone with a broader tax background who has developed meaningful experience in sales and use tax and wants to continue building their indirect tax expertise.
The position is hybrid and requires three days per week onsite in Winston-Salem, NC.
Key Responsibilities
Manage and support multi-state sales and use tax compliance, including preparation and review of filings. Play a key role in the month-end sales and use tax process, including reconciliation of tax accounts and supporting documentation. Prepare and coordinate property tax returns, with heavier filing activity during the spring season. Gather, validate, and organize tax data to ensure accurate and timely filings across applicable state and local jurisdictions. Manage state and local tax registrations, notices, account maintenance, and related compliance matters. Partner with outside tax providers to support the preparation and filing of sales and use tax and other business tax returns. Assist with nexus analysis and help determine tax obligations as the organization expands into new jurisdictions. Support responses to tax notices, audits, and inquiries from state and local taxing authorities. Maintain accurate and audit-ready sales tax exemption certificates. Research sales and use tax regulations and provide practical guidance on the tax treatment of business transactions. Support tax due diligence and integration activities related to acquisitions. Assist with developing and improving tax processes, controls, and automation. Utilize tax technology, including Avalara or similar platforms, to improve efficiency and accuracy. Partner with accounting, finance, legal, and operations teams on tax-related matters. Adapt to changing priorities and workload throughout seasonal peaks in the tax calendar.