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Senior Tax Accountant – Tax Operations
TIAA-CREF
New York, NY, United States
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COMPANY OVERVIEW:
As long as there are people who make the world a better place, we’ll keep making a difference for them. Since 1918, it has been TIAA’s mission to serve those who serve others. It is this mission and the values we embrace that make us a different kind of financial services organization.
When you work here at TIAA, you’re not just in it for yourself. You are part of something bigger. A collective mission to make a difference – a collective mission we make our own.
To be difference makers.
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POSITION SUMMARY:
TIAA’s Corporate Tax department is responsible for compliance with worldwide tax laws, developing and implementing tax efficiencies for the enterprise, and its respective part of financial statement reporting.
Corporate Tax is seeking a Senior Tax Accountant in the Charlotte, NC or New York City, NY office. This position will support the Tax Process & Operations Senior Manager in maintaining and building out best practices associated with the tax department’s processes and technology.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
*Administer and support the current platform of tax technology tools and related processes. Includes working closely with tax department staff to troubleshoot and resolve issues. Other responsibilities include:
• performing onboarding of new hires to ensure they have the tools necessary to start working,
• packaging and testing all desktop software specific to the tax department,
• performing tax entity management and tax calendar processes to ensure that all department compliance deadlines are appropriately tracked.
*Maintain an in-depth understanding of the Company’s information technology environment, including tax software, hardware, and IT-related policies and procedures. Provide subject matter expertise on tax projects.
*Analyze existing business and system processes to identify and implement tax automation strategies. Improve the ability of the tax function to leverage technology to reduce time spent on manual efforts such as data manipulation and document retrieval. Includes creating automated tax processes using RPA and self-service analytics tools.
*Advocate for improved governance and controls of data sources used by the Corporate Tax department.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required Skills, Certification(s), degree(s) and license(s):
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required
• 5+ years of experience in a large tax department or public accounting firm with a minimum of 2 years in a tax technology or equivalent role.
• Familiarity with SDLC phases and experience with drafting business requirements documents and performing rigorous testing against those requirements.
• Expertise with MS Office applications
Desired Skills:
• Excellent documentation and communication skills
• Demonstrate an exceptional standard of quality, accuracy, attention to detail, thoughtful analysis and problem-solving for excellent results.
• Tax experience in the financial services industry is strongly preferred
• CPA preferred
• Experience with Thomson Reuters tax applications – ONESOURCE Income Tax, ONESOURCE Tax Provision, DataFlow, etc. – a plus
• Experience with PeopleSoft and Yardi GL systems and Sage Fixed Assets software a plus
• Experience with RPA and self-service analytics tools a plus