Senior Tax Analyst

You will participate in the design, development, and testing of our GoSystem Tax product using in-house development tools. In this role, you will collect, analyze, and prioritize requirements from various entities including external taxing authorities and our internal sources to define and make required changes to the GoSystem Tax software. It will require working closely with internal teams. This position requires a forward-thinking attitude to implement tax law changes in advance of a typical tax filing season. Depending on the nature of the project undertakes a combination of technical implementation and testing analyst tasks to understand customer and/or product needs in the context of internal & external requirements and/or software development information. As a Senior Tax Analyst, you will be working on medium to complex-level federal or state projects.

About the Role

Desired Experience

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

• Enrolled Agent (EA)

• Two to four years of tax preparation experience

• Experience with electronic filing of tax returns is a plus

• Federal, State, city, and local income tax preparation

• Experience using TR tax products in tax return preparation.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Communicate with other internal teams to stay abreast of tax law changes per jurisdiction

• Constant monitoring of IRS and state taxing agency tax law changes by reviewing Checkpoint and other sources to stay current on impending tax law changes

• Utilizing some project management skills including analyzing changes in tax code and the resulting software changes required, scoping the impact of the product enhancements and tax code changes on the software, development resources, and end users.

• Analyze tax forms and related laws to ensure our software is kept current

• Design the client interface, such as input/output screens, in our tax product

• ·Implement changes to our existing tax software products

• For GoSystem, this would require basic programming skills with internal tools.

• Write and/or communicate design and system flow specifications for software engineers

• Test software products

• Write help documentation and work with technical writers to implement it into the software

• Provide phone support to our customers on an as-needed basis

• Mentoring other Tax Analysts

• Assistance with more complex support cases that may not be in your area of development

About You

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance and/or Computer Science or equivalent degree; CPA certification a plus

• 2-4 years of recent tax preparation experience or experience providing technical support to end users of tax software or at least 3 years of experience using our internal development tools

• At least 3 years of experience in analyzing Federal and State tax accounting laws and regulations.

• Experience in reading and analyzing XML format for electronic filing of tax returns

• Experience in technical client support working directly with tax professionals in resolving tax software issues and usability.

• Strong communication and computer skills

• Knowledge of ADO and tracking of work items through multiple teams

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