Senior Accountant, Tax & Compliance at WillowTree
Durham, North Carolina, USA -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

23 Nov, 25

Salary

85000.0

Posted On

23 Aug, 25

Experience

3 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Tax, Data Integrity, Regulatory Filings

Industry

Accounting

Description

WHO WE ARE

Welcome to TELUS Digital — where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital product consultancy and the digital division of TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.
In January 2023, TELUS Digital acquired WillowTree, creating a combined firm with service offerings spanning Customer Experience and Digital Solutions.
With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across eight core service areas: Digital Product Consulting, Digital Marketing Services, Data & AI, Strategy Consulting, Business Operations Modernization, Enterprise Applications, Cloud Engineering, and QA & Test Engineering.
From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are — all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.

QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS

  • 3+ years of tax accounting experience
  • Extremely detail-oriented
  • Track record of striving for data integrity and a desire to constantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of accounting processes
  • Experience with regulatory filings
  • Strong understanding of taxes, sales and use tax, and general compliance
  • Ability to work independently without considerable oversight and to act decisively in order to meet deadlines and maintain accuracy
  • Maintains a consistent awareness of tax accounting trends and changes
  • Collaborative approach with the ability to engage various disciplines and stakeholders in an organization
  • Demonstrates an equitable and open-minded approach when considering the viewpoints of others, especially when those viewpoints differ from their own
  • Strong Excel and/or Google Sheet skills
Responsibilities
  • Lead the preparation of multi-state sales and use tax returns
  • Ownership for quarterly filing for the Ohio Commercial Activity Tax (CAT) and Washington Business and Occupation (B&O) tax
  • Resolve tax notices by communicating with the payroll team as needed
  • Determine the course of action for any tax notices received, including submission/follow-ups with external vendor partners
  • File property tax filings for VA and NC
  • Collaborate with external tax accounting vendors and our parent company for various types of filings, including state and federal income tax filings
  • Involved in the month-end close activities, including reconciling certain accounts, including sales tax payable, and recording certain reclassifications.
  • Ownership of business insurance, disbursement and submission of renewed Certificate of insurance to clients, and submission of needed documentation for Workers’ Compensation compliance and annual WillowTree audits
  • Prepare payments and remittances for payments due, including mail tracking, documentation, etc.
  • Maintain the filling system for all entities in the WillowTree enterprise
  • Partner with Corporation Service Company (CSC) for any requirements related to annual reporting
  • Partner with WillowTree’s Accounts Payable team for 1099 filing and submission
  • Review of expense reports and record month-end accruals relating to expense reporting
  • Assist with audit preparation related to the financial statement audit
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