Senior Consultant, Sales and Use Tax

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Downers Grove, IL
Mid level
Fintech • Consulting
The Role
The Senior Consultant will work with a team to identify tax savings for clients, conducting research on tax issues, reconciling databases, and managing client inquiries. They will also assist in project planning and tax resolution negotiations. The role includes fieldwork for data collection and requires effective communication with clients and team members.
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Why Ryan?

  • Hybrid Work Options

  • Award-Winning Culture

  • Generous Personal Time Off (PTO) Benefits

  • 14-Weeks of 100% Paid Leave for New Parents (Adoption Included)

  • Monthly Gym Membership Reimbursement OR Gym Equipment Reimbursement

  • Benefits Eligibility Effective Day One

  • 401K with Employer Match

  • Tuition Reimbursement After One Year of Service

  • Fertility Assistance Program

  • Four-Week Company-Paid Sabbatical Eligibility After Five Years of Service

The Sales and Use Tax Senior Consultant (“Senior Consultant”) works with a team to identify tax savings opportunities for clients and to gain an understanding of how the client computes each component of sales and use tax. This includes researching issues, reconciling databases, and completing detailed calculations.

This is a hybrid role typically requiring 3 days a week in office.

Duties and responsibilities, as they align to Ryan’s Key Results

People:

  • Create a positive team experience.

Client:

  • Reviews and reconciles client data downloads and identifies tax issues to research.
  • Performs data downloads from client’s accounting system.
  • Develops review schedules and checklist from client data downloads.
  • Travels to client locations to gather and copy tax returns, invoices, purchase orders, and other documentation to use in the audit refund process.
  • Responds to client inquiries and requests from state agencies.

Value:

  • Assists Manager in developing project workplans and scheduling associated project deliverables.
  • Negotiates tax resolutions with state agencies.
  • Drafts filings, such as petitions for redetermination, refund claims, and various other administrative replies.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree or equivalent in Accounting and/or Finance with two to four years audit or tax related experience.

Computer Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must have intermediate knowledge of Microsoft® Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Internet navigation and research.

Certificates and Licenses:

Valid driver’s license required. 

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Requires limited supervisory responsibilities, including training employees, assigning work, and checking work for accuracy and completeness.

Work Environment:

  • Standard indoor working environment.
  • Occasional long periods of sitting while working at computer.
  • Occasional long periods of standing while copying.
  • Position requires regular interaction with employees and clients both in person and via e-mail and telephone.
  • Independent travel requirement: 30 to 40%.
  • 50+ hour standard workweek requirement.

Equal Opportunity Employer: disability/veteran

Top Skills

Microsoft Access
Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft Word
The Company
Albuquerque, NM
3,194 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1991

What We Do

Ryan is a tax services firm providing tax advisory and consulting services on a multi-jurisdictional basis.

Ryan, an award-winning global tax services and software provider, is the largest Firm in the world dedicated exclusively to business taxes. With global headquarters in Dallas, Texas, the Firm provides an integrated suite of federal, state, local, and international tax services on a multijurisdictional basis, including tax recovery, consulting, advocacy, compliance, and technology services. Ryan is a seven-time recipient of the International Service Excellence Award from the Customer Service Institute of America (CSIA) for its commitment to world-class client service. Empowered by the dynamic myRyan work environment, which is widely recognized as the most innovative in the tax services industry, Ryan’s multidisciplinary team of more than 2,500 professionals and associates serves over 14,000 clients in more than 50 countries, including many of the world’s most prominent Global 5000 companies.

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