Research Analyst

Job Description

• Research tax rates and boundaries, reporting, and remittance requirements to keep our tax products in compliance with state, county, and local jurisdiction tax requirements
• Monitor legislation, administrative decisions, and judicial decisions for changes in transaction tax rate and boundary content in assigned jurisdictional or topical areas
• Apply rate and boundary changes into our software while providing concise documentation of the changes
• Based upon tax research, validate results of test transactions pre-production
• Build productive working relationships with state, county, and city authorities to maximize the quality of our product
• When opportunities to further automate and streamline processes exist, raise them to Manager and/or Sr Designer to enable prioritization and ticket creation for Engineering

Qualifications (absolute must haves walking in the door)

• A natural curiosity about technology and an interest in innovation and learning about new areas of transaction taxes
• Relevant Bachelor's degree (i.e. Geography with emphasis in GIS, Database Systems)
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a related field if holding a relevant Bachelor's degree OR 3 years' experience in related field if holding a GIS or Database related Master's degree
• Experience with ESRI ArcGIS application or other open GIS applications
• Excellent research skills, including a logical and creative approach to drilling down to specific data to surface information that is vital to the accuracy of the published content
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to work in and support a team environment through collective team topics, load balancing, and sharing/receiving constructive feedback
• Ability to multi-task, troubleshoot, and problem solve in a calm, analytical and methodical manner that also demonstrates a sense of urgency
• Proactively participate in a dynamic and innovative tax environment by maintaining a high level of energy while being consistently dependable, efficient, and accurate
• Demonstrated ability to manage time to achieve priority results
• Ability to maintain organization and attention to detail
• Analytic ability at a level sufficient to understand and resolve client requests and tax concerns
• Ability to apply basic math, percentages and general accounting rules
• Ability to learn and adapt to different software applications and tools
• Demonstrated high standards of excellence in work product and professionalism

Preferred Qualifications (great to have but not absolutely necessary)

• GIS or Database related Masters Degree
• Project Management Certification
• Indirect tax, research, consulting or audit experience
• Familiarity with tax returns and/or government compliance
• Familiarity with Atlassian Confluence and/or JIRA
• Familiarity with concepts of taxation and how they apply to jurisdiction rates and boundaries
• Experience with SQL and data base management