Senior Manager, State and Local Tax (SALT)

Job title: Senior Manager, State and Local Tax (SALT)

About the Role

Join KPMG's State and Local Tax (SALT) practice as a Senior Manager. You will lead and guide client engagements providing state and local sales/use tax services across multi-state organizations, including compliance, planning, audits, and controversy management. You will mentor staff and contribute to business development while collaborating with KPMG's Ignition Centers and a network of specialists.

What You'll Do

• Provide excellent client service to multi-state companies with state and local sales/use tax issues including reverse audits, compliance, tax planning, automation technology, research and writing, multi-jurisdictional reporting, and controversies/audit defense.
• Partner with multi-state companies in analyzing state tax considerations/impacts related to business restructuring projects and intercompany transactions.
• Work with multi-state companies in state and local tax (SALT) controversies, which includes preparing clients for discussions with auditors, representing the client at hearings and at appeal meetings, and preparing protests.
• Supervise, mentor and develop staff members.
• Participate in the business development, management and delivery of SALT services.

What We're Looking For

• Minimum eight years of recent experience in providing tax research and technical advice on multi-state issues.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university; licensed CPA, EA, JD/LLM, MST (Master's in Taxation) or a certified member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (CMI) designation for non-CPA eligible candidates, in addition to others on KPMG's approved credential listing; any individual who does not possess at least one of the approved designations/credentials when their employment commences, has one year from their date of hire to obtain at least one of the approved designations/credentials; should you like to see the complete list of currently approved designations/credentials for the hiring practice/service line, your recruiter can provide you with that list.
• Strong knowledge of the development, planning and execution of sales and transactions tax refund claims.
• Experience with various other corporate taxes and their impact on sales tax.