Tax Analyst

Tax Analyst

Role Summary:

As a Tax Analyst you will participate in the development and testing of our tax import products using in-house development tools.  In this role, you will analyze data files and tax software changes to make corresponding import products. It will require working closely with other internal teams including tax accountants, programmers, and clients. You will be responsible for updating internal databases with tax changes, deploying new files to various network locations and testing the changes by using the tax software. As a Tax Analyst, you will work with multiple tax entity types and with several different products and file types including CSV, XML, JSON and Excel spreadsheets.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Tax Analyst, you will:

• 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 review of Checkpoint and other sources to stay current on impending tax law changes

• 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

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

• Test software products

• Analyze date and test imported data

• Respond timely to client questions and issues

About You

You're a fit for the role of Tax Analyst if your background includes:

Desired Experience

• Up to two years of tax preparation experience

• Experience with electronic filing of tax returns a plus

• State, city, and local income tax preparation a plus

• Experience with CSV, XML or JSON file formats

• Experience with e-file and reading the XML file

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or equivalent experience

• Up to 2 years of recent tax preparation experience or experience providing technical support to end users of tax software

• Experience using a tax software package

• Strong communication and computer skills

What's in it For You?

• You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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