Process Specialist

Job Purpose and Impact

• The Professional, Tax job independently prepares tax forms and performs moderately complex tax research and analysis, and tax compliance activities. With limited supervision, this job develops tax solutions and advice and the resolution of legal disputes and audits.

• TAX RETURNS & TAX FORM COMPLETION: Prepares moderately complex tax returns, and prepares and reviews tax forms and related documents associated with tax compliance, including provisions, computations, estimates, and extensions.
• TAX COMPLIANCE & INQUIRY RESPONSES: Provides support to the organization's subsidiaries, joint ventures, business staff and tax department personnel by responding to moderately complex tax inquiries and tax transactions issues.
• TAX COMPLIANCE ACTIVITIES: Participates in tax compliance projects, coordinates and monitors tax, financial and compliance systems for troubleshooting, training, and data quality purposes, and oversees and completes general processes related to statutory and or generally accepted accounting principles for tax related items.
• TAX COMPLIANCE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Reviews and guides businesses to accurately follow compliance processes, analyzes compliance processes and or the applications used in these processes to draw conclusions and recommend improvements to increase and ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of compliance processes.
• TAX SOLUTIONS DEVELOPMENT: Identifies opportunities and provides recommendations to optimize the organization's tax liabilities and risks, and implements moderately complex tax planning ideas and process improvement initiatives, including objectives applicable to corporate and capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and joint ventures, funding, trading and risk management, trade flow and supply chains, applying key tax attributes.
• TAX COUNSEL: Communicates with and provides advice to business staff and managers, including details around implementation of tax planning solutions and trainings, and facilitates moderately complex discrete or specialized tax training sessions for colleagues.
• TAX RESEARCH & ANALYSIS: Conducts moderately complex tax related research and analysis for the purpose of completing tax compliance responsibilities.
• AUDITS CONDUCTION & LEGAL DISPUTES RESOLUTION: Develops responses to moderately complex audits and information requests from external taxing authorities for verification from senior team members, retrieves information for senior team members to verify in response to moderate risk audits and information requests from external tax authorities, and handles correspondence with external revenue bodies and or inquiries from taxing authorities.

• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.