Sales Tax Supervisor

Location:

In particular you will:

• Provides leadership and direction to Sales & Use Tax team:

• Develops and conducts training programs to new and existing employees within the tax department, including onboarding of associates, and technical and legal training.

• Provides guidance and oversight of staff activities related to the research and resolution of customer tax disputes; ensure follow-through / resolution of the dispute root cause.

• Develops staff through goal-setting, evaluations, feedback, discipline and on-going coaching to ensure activities are performed within department and Company policy.

• Creates, measures, and monitors receivable performance, including monthly metrics and provides support / reporting to the Division Controller & CFO.

• Analyzes, reviews, and makes determinations on how to properly integrate newly acquired businesses into the Company's sales tax function.

• Responsible for managing the team's daily functions to relate to customer taxability. Daily functions include:

• Utilizes research tools and critical thinking to determine the proper taxability of customers and transactions.

• Research, understand, interpret and communicate sales and use tax laws to internal and external customers.

• Supports Corporate Tax Department in managing customer tax exceptions in sales tax software, which will involve special setups of select item customers that do not follow a standard tax category.

• Provides support for sales tax audits.

• Reviews customer transactions generated by the branch stores which will require daily oversight through the SAP billing block report and SAP tax override report. Assist branches to resolve tax issues for daily blocks and daily tax overrides.

• Reviews and processes tax only credit invoice requests generated by the branch stores and credit specialists for short pays on invoices due to sales taxes.

• Reviews and approves exemption certificates provided by customers to substantiate customer exemptions.

• Prioritizes workload to ensure disputes are resolved as efficiently and accurately as possible

• Proactively interact with internal and external customers to reduce the amount of new disputes.

• Works with other Division tax teams on cross Divisional customers and best practices.

• Special projects and other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field preferred. In lieu of degree requirement, four additional years of sales tax related experience may be considered.

• Requires three (3) years of prior sales tax and customer relations experience in positions of increasing responsibility.

• Experience with SAP, Vertex or other sales tax software is a plus.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and juggle between divisional, local and corporate management and demands.

• Intermediate computer skills (Google Suite, Microsoft Excel).

• Ability to handle difficult situations diplomatically and professionally.

• Ability to analyze and disseminate large amounts of data.

• Exhibits customer focused behavior such as building positive relationships and strives to understand customer's needs, both internal and external.

• Excellent analytical and creative problem solving skills with the ability to make independent decisions based on investigation and judgment and ability to discern when to escalate issues.

• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to adjust communication methods based on customer situations.

• A positive approach and willingness to learn coupled with the ability to work in a team environment.

• Ability to integrate new technologies into day-to-day operations.

• Vision, creativity and quality thinking.

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We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees.

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children, including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.

Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees' dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

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Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

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Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at us-accommodationrequest@airgas.com.

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