Indirect Tax & Compliance Manager

Shape tax compliance strategy at scale while influencing decisions that protect and enable a global consulting business.
At ERM, this role goes beyond compliance execution—it sits at the center of regulatory stewardship, financial governance, and operational enablement across North America.

Why This Role Matters

As ERM continues to grow across increasingly complex regulatory environments, indirect tax accuracy, audit readiness, and advisory insight are mission‑critical. The Indirect Tax & Compliance Manager ensures the firm remains compliant with state, local, and indirect tax regulations while enabling confident pricing, invoicing, and client delivery decisions.

This role serves as the North America subject matter authority for indirect taxes, protecting ERM’s financial integrity, managing regulatory risk, and translating complex tax rules into clear, operational guidance for the business.

What Your Impact Is

• Safeguard ERM’s compliance with sales tax, use tax, property tax, and similar indirect tax requirements

• Lead audit engagements with state and local authorities and represent ERM with confidence

• Influence pricing, proposal strategy, and invoicing structures through expert tax guidance

• Enable finance and business teams with practical, actionable tax knowledge

• Strengthen governance, documentation, and consistency across indirect tax processes

What You’ll Bring

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in indirect tax, compliance, or related tax roles

• Demonstrated experience supporting services‑based or consulting organizations

• Proven audit defense experience with state and local authorities

• Strong ability to translate tax regulations into operational and financial guidance

• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills

• High attention to detail with strong organizational and prioritization abilities

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Preferred

• Knowledge of Canadian GST/HST/PST

• Experience supporting pricing, proposals, or invoicing structures

• Experience developing internal tax guidance, training materials, or policy documentation

• Familiarity with Crystal Report development

• Experience partnering with Group Tax on audit provisioning and uncertain tax positions

Key Responsibilities

• Manage preparation and filing of sales and use tax, gross receipts tax, property tax, and other indirect tax returns

• Oversee annual business license filings and ongoing compliance requirements

• Lead sales and use tax, property tax, and other indirect tax audits with state and local authorities

• Serve as North America lead for service taxability determinations, including sales tax, GRT, and excise‑type taxes

• Support proposal and pricing teams by assessing indirect tax impacts and advising on invoicing structures

• Own indirect tax guidance memos, internal controls documentation, and training materials

• Partner with Group Tax on audit provisioning, risk assessments, and uncertain tax positions

• Act as escalation point for complex, multi‑state and high‑risk tax matters

• Train finance teams on indirect tax requirements, regulatory changes, and best practices

• Conduct periodic inventory reviews to ensure accurate property and asset records

• Support financial, audit, and reporting information requests

• Maintain awareness of evolving indirect tax regulations and ensure timely compliance

Influence & Authority

• Act as ERM’s North America subject matter expert for indirect taxes

• Hold decision‑making authority on service taxability, pricing guidance, and compliance interpretation

• Represent ERM in discussions with internal stakeholders, auditors, and tax authorities

Who We Are:
As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.

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ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Thank you for your interest in ERM!