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Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
The Indirect Tax Professional will be responsible for Sales/Use tax and /or Business License tax for specific State and Local tax authorities. The responsibility includes Tax Compliance, Customer Support and Tax Audit Support for IBM and its related entities. The position involves teaming, involvement in special projects, and providing guidance to field operations and corporate support departments.

Are you eager to learn from others? Are you open to innovative ideas? Do you enjoy collaborating globally, using data analytics to provide actionable insights and have a passion to drive innovation? Then we ask you: are you ready to join the company that has become essential to the world, driven by that same passion?

Responsibilities may include:
• Preparing Sales/Use Tax Reconciliations and filing tax returns.
• Resolving issues related to sales tax charged to customers.
• Researching complex tax questions / issues.
• Review and validate customer tax exemption documentation.
• Review state and local tax law changes to identify any potential impact to taxability.
• Support filing and payment of business license tax and gross receipt tax returns.
• Researching and analyzing sales and purchase transactions for tax compliance and potential tax savings.
• Documenting tax decisions in preparation for future tax audits.
• Working with vendor requests for tax only payments and providing exemption certificate documentation.
• Understanding and effectively communicating business activities and procedures.
• Perform quarterly Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) internal controls testing for worldwide business controls.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
• Microsoft Office, Word, Excel
• Demonstrate analytical and communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in either Accounting, Economics, Finance, or closely related degrees of study.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Prior Tax experience
• Basic knowledge of RIA Checkpoint or other online tax research source.
• Bachelor’s degree in either Accounting, Economics, Finance, or closely related degrees of study.