We are seeking a Senior Indirect Tax Analyst to join our corporate tax team at our Westerville, OH headquarters. In this role, you will lead the compliance, reconciliation, and audit functions for multi-state sales and use taxes, local business filings, and Canadian transaction taxes (GST, HST, PST). A strong component of this position involves collaborating with data and IT teams to manage and enhance tax automation tools, document internal SOX controls, and ensure compliance for our North American supply chain and cross-border operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee and review the preparation and filing of U.S. multi-state sales and use tax, property tax, and gross receipts returns.
- Manage the end-to-end compliance cycle for Canadian transactional taxes, including GST, HST, and provincial sales taxes (PST).
- Manage indirect tax account reconciliations, identifying and resolving incorrect tax postings in the general ledger.
- Maintain, monitor, and document the North American indirect tax function's internal controls, including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) key controls.
- Support state, local, and Canadian revenue agency (CRA) indirect tax audits by gathering documentation, performing data analysis, and coordinating directly with auditors.
- Partner with cross-functional data and technology teams to maintain, enhance, and implement indirect tax calculation engines and automated ERP workflows.
- Conduct complex tax research on multi-state and Canadian product taxability and cross-border import/export rules to advise billing, operations, and supply chain teams.
- Identify process gaps, structural efficiencies, and opportunities to eliminate manual overhead in data collection and compliance work papers.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 3+ years of progressive corporate indirect tax experience or public accounting equivalent.
- Hands-on experience preparing and reviewing Canadian GST/HST/PST returns alongside U.S. sales and use tax filings.
- Experience executing indirect tax general ledger account reconciliations and recording journal entries.
- Familiarity with internal financial controls and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) testing/documentation.
- Technical proficiency with advanced Excel functions and enterprise resource planning systems (such as SAP or Oracle) alongside dedicated tax compliance software (such as Vertex or Avalara).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license, Certified Market Institution (CMI) designation, or equivalent Canadian accounting credential.
- Experience navigating sales tax and cross-border rules in an industrial manufacturing, distribution, or data center technology landscape.
- Background working directly on tax engine system integrations or data-cleansing transformation projects.
The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principles & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.
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• High-Performance Culture
• Customer Focus
• Operational Excellence
• Innovation
• Financial Strength
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• Learn and seek out development
• Promote transparent & open communication
About Vertiv
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.
Work Authorization
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 3+ years of progressive corporate indirect tax experience or public accounting equivalent
- Hands-on experience preparing and reviewing Canadian GST, HST, and PST returns alongside U.S. sales and use tax filings
- Experience with indirect tax general ledger account reconciliations and journal entries
- Familiarity with internal financial controls and SOX testing and documentation
- Technical proficiency with advanced Excel functions, ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle, and tax compliance software such as Vertex or Avalara
- CPA license, CMI designation, or equivalent Canadian accounting credential
- Experience with sales tax and cross-border rules in industrial manufacturing, distribution, or data center technology
- Experience with tax engine system integrations or data-cleansing transformation projects
Vertiv Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with standard medical, dental, and vision plans plus wellness and mental-health resources. Core offerings also include disability and life insurance and an Employee Assistance Program.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes paid holidays and PTO typical of large employers, and many U.S. salaried roles feature flexible or "unlimited" PTO approaches. These programs are part of a structured, global total rewards framework.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered fair at start for many office-based, engineering, and field service roles, and total compensation packages are viewed as stable. In some hourly manufacturing settings, overtime opportunities help boost overall earnings.
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What We Do
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to ensure its customers’ vital applications run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 20,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
