Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nationwide is a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, seeking a Technical Director for their Sales and Use Tax functions. The role involves leading tax compliance and planning, ensuring accurate and timely tax obligations, and providing strategic leadership to identify tax risks and opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Lead all sales and use tax and personal property tax compliance activities, including return preparation, filings, payments, and notices
- Oversee the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of tax data, calculations, accruals, reconciliations, and supporting documentation
- Establish and maintain processes and controls to support compliance with state and local tax requirements
- Review taxability determinations for purchases, leases, software, services, fixed assets, and other transactions
- Manage exemption certificate administration and other documentation required to support tax positions
- Monitor compliance calendars, notices, registrations, and jurisdictional requirements to help ensure all obligations are met
- Identify and lead tax planning opportunities related to sales and use tax and personal property tax
- Evaluate transaction flows, systems, sourcing, and operational changes to improve tax efficiency and reduce risk
- Determines the implementation of tax modules in programs for the production of accounting data and operating results
- Consults on the preparation and review of the federal and state/local tax return for all assigned enterprise companies
- Coordinates all federal and state/local tax audits
- Provides research for use in negotiated settlements for the most advantageous position for Nationwide
- Reviews analysis and reports
- Leads legislative workload with existing compliance and planning
- Develops personnel in the area of legislative activity
- Advises the various accounting departments in the enterprise of the accurate tax reporting policies of financial data and on record maintenance for tax purposes
- Interacts with other departments, to provide guidance from a tax perspective, for federal and state/local tax filing and review of documentation for examination by the IRS and other authorities
- Resolves work assignments for the development of the tax provision for statutory and GAAP reports
- Establishes teams to support the reporting processes
- Responsible for developing staff understanding of accounting as well as tax law
- Resolves tax issues with accounting and/or financial auditors
- Reports on Sarbanes Oxley controls
- Authorizes tax payments and intercompany settlements
- Analyzes the impact of federal taxes on the current direction of the assigned enterprise companies
- Works with senior management in evaluating current and proposed business transactions by incorporating the tax impact in the analysis
- Advises associate management, including performance management, salary planning and administration, training and development, workflow planning, hiring and placement and disciplinary actions
- May perform other responsibilities as assigned
Skills
- Undergraduate degree with studies in tax, law or accounting
- Minimum of eight years in insurance tax field for a life or multi-line insurance company, public accounting firm or law firm
- Six years tax management experience
- Proven knowledge of federal and state/local tax law
- Knowledge of statutory and/or GAAP accounting
- Knowledge of modeling and tax systems
- Knowledge of research techniques
- Ability to communicate as exemplified in position papers
- Good verbal communication skills that allow a technical area to be understood by business unit executives
- Ability to develop teams
- Ability to negotiate with federal and state/local auditors as well as with business partners
- Ability to evaluate tax laws and their impact on business operations
- Progress toward a master's degree in taxation
- CPA or J.D. is desired
Benefits
- Medical/dental/vision
- Life insurance
- Short and long term disability coverage
- Paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date
- Nine paid holidays
- 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off
- 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off
- 401(k) with company match
- Company-paid pension plan
- Business casual attire
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