Sr. Tax Accountant

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Who You Are
Reporting to the Sr. Corporate Tax Manager, as our Sr. Tax Accountant, you join a team of highly skilled tax professionals and will specifically support Corporate Income tax. You won't just be crunching numbers, you will be the go-to technical expert developing and facilitating our U.S. federal and state corporate income tax compliance, quarterly and annual ASC 740 income tax provision, and estimated payments, all while keeping pace with a high-growth SaaS business. Operating in our high-volume SaaS environment means owning our provision and compliance workflows, ing strong technical tax research and analysis to complex issues, maintaining SOX-compliant internal controls over income tax reporting, and ensuring our tax positions are well-documented, defensible, and scalable. If you thrive in a fast-paced setting and love turning complex tax data into streamlined, automated processes, you'll fit right in.
What You Will Do
- Compliance & Filing: Facilitate the end-to-end preparation, review, and timely filing of U.S. federal and state corporate income tax returns, quarterly estimated payments, and extensions, in accordance with SOX-documented processes and deadlines.
- Tax Provision (ASC 740): Prepare or review quarterly and annual income tax provision calculations, including current and deferred tax computations, effective tax rate reconciliations, and related financial statement disclosures, ensuring each step is supported by compliant workpapers and evidence.
- Technical Research & Legislative Tracking: Perform technical tax research and analysis on federal and state tax law changes, apportionment methodologies, and evolving income tax nexus standards, documenting conclusions to an audit-ready standard as HighLevel expands.
- Audit Defense: Support the team through federal and state income tax audits by efficiently managing information document requests (IDRs) and partnering with leadership to advocate for and defend established tax positions.
- SOX Controls & General Ledger Reconciliation: Own and execute key SOX controls over the income tax close process; prepare or review monthly and quarterly tax account reconciliations, including deferred tax assets/liabilities and income tax payable accounts, within NetSuite.
- Cross-Functional Advisory: Partner with Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, and Legal to