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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate to join our State and Local Tax (SALT) 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
• Once the data is ready for input, 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
• Design, test and troubleshoot indirect tax technology solutions developed using Microsoft Access, Excel or SQL Server

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, management information systems or a related course of study from an accredited college/university
• Development knowledge using Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Access, and experience developing in .NET is preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Access, SQL Server, XML, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, or process mapping software
• Strong skills in indirect tax information systems, including strong project management skills and the ability to analyze client business needs
• Experience in reviewing and working with transaction tax data received from the billing systems of wire line/wireless telecommunications companies or cable/broadband companies, and a working knowledge of federal, state, and local telecommunications transaction taxes imposed in the United States
• Strong technical awareness and basic knowledge of global indirect tax issues

KPMG offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. KPMG, an equal opportunity employer/disability/veteran. KPMG maintains a drug-free workplace. KPMG will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state or federal law (including San Francisco Ordinance number 131192). No phone calls or agencies please.