Associate, State and Local Tax - Sales and Use Compliance

At KPMG, you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the world's top tax firms. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMG's extensive network of specialists & enjoy access to our Ignition Centers, where deep industry knowledge merges with cutting-edge technologies to create innovative tax solutions. Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through a range of multifaceted engagements, formal training, and informal mentoring.

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KPMG is currently seeking an Associate to join our practice.

Responsibilities:

• Review sales, use, and telecommunications tax data received on a monthly basis from KPMG compliance clients to determine if it is in the proper format for input into KPMG's mechanized tax processing systems
• Arrange the monthly data received into the proper tax location codes, tax types, tax categories, authority levels, taxpayer entities, and tax amounts
• Apply client specific business rules to the tax data received from tax compliance clients to modify the data for input into KPMG mechanized tax processing systems
• Process the data for the returns using one or more of KPMG's mechanized tax systems
• Identify, document, and recommend client technological business requirements for sales, use, and telecommunications tax compliance processes, and system improvements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, or a related field of study from an accredited college/university
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications, including Excel, Access, SQL Server, XML, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, or process mapping software as well as a strong technical awareness and basic knowledge of global indirect tax issues
• Effective oral and written communication skills to use internally, and with clients and state and local agencies
• Ability to manage time in order to complete between 300-500 monthly returns accurately and in timely manner

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