Tax Analyst
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Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world‑class company that is market‑leading for both content and technology? If yes, we are looking for you!
Join our team! Help translate complex tax requirements into accurate, compliant, and testable software content. You’ll drive end‑to‑end research, implementation, and quality assurance to ensure our products reflect current regulations and deliver an exceptional customer experience.
About the RoleIn this opportunity as a Tax Content Analyst, you will:
Research & Monitoring
- Monitor changes to tax statutes, regulations, legislative activity, court decisions, forms, and official publications.
- Communicate with tax authorities to clarify requirements and support compliant content.
Content Implementation & Testing
- Implement and update tax content within our applications, delivering on established release/content deadlines.
- Design and execute testing procedures to validate content accuracy and software functionality; document results, verify fixes, and track outcomes.
Requirements & Systems Analysis
- Independently gather and document customer regulatory needs; translate them into clear, testable requirements and user stories.
- Liaise with customers and internal teams to define workflows and acceptance criteria; support Agile delivery, SDLC processes, change management, and testing/implementation.
Collaboration & Communication
- Translate tax requirements into effective software solutions and seamless content integration with product and engineering.
- Support internal stakeholders and Customer Support with research and timely responses to client inquiries.
Project Contribution
- Manage your deliverables reliably—provide timely status, flag risks early, and support content initiatives of moderate scope.
- Identify and contribute to process improvements that enhance quality, efficiency, and time‑to‑value.
You’re a fit for the role if your background includes:
Tax Compliance, Analytical, and Problem‑Solving
- Foundational tax knowledge applied to varied scenarios; ability to identify and resolve moderately complex issues with sound judgment.
- Experience researching straightforward to moderately complex tax issues; interpreting guidance, assessing impact, and recommending compliant solutions.
- Structured analysis skills to test assumptions and communicate tradeoffs clearly.
Research & Technology
- Proficiency with tax compliance software (e.g., ONESOURCE, GoSystem Tax, UltraTax) and research platforms (e.g., Checkpoint, government databases).
- Working knowledge of data structures and formats (e.g., CSV, XML, SQL); comfortable modeling calculations or requirements for development partners.
- Strong technical aptitude across tools—including emerging technologies such as automation and AI‑assisted features—to improve productivity and accuracy.
- Responsible use of AI and productivity tools to increase efficiency, with validation of outputs and documented sources.
- Adaptability to new tools, workflows, and evolving priorities.
Communication & Collaboration
- Ability to communicate tax results to technical and non‑technical audiences; tailor messaging and build shared understanding.
- Cross‑functional teamwork, task coordination, and constructive resolution of minor conflicts.
Organization & Ownership
- Strong organization and prioritization skills; consistent delivery against strict deadlines across multiple assignments.
- Ownership mindset for a defined area end‑to‑end, with transparent status and issue communication.
Customer Focus & Quality
- Anticipates customer needs within scope and translates feedback into continuous improvements.
- Adheres to QA standards; creates test cases, verifies fixes, and tracks quality metrics.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Computer Science (required).
- Hands‑on experience in tax preparation/compliance or developing tax‑related content (e.g., corporate income tax, U.S. international tax, sales and use tax, VAT) preferred.
- CPA or Enrolled Agent (EA) credentials preferred (or progress toward them).
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What’s in it For You?
Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
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