Tax Analyst

Tax Analyst

Role Summary

The Tax Analyst is a key contributor to our global team, responsible for ensuring that our software products meet the highest standards of accuracy, reliability, and regulatory compliance. In this role, the successful candidate will analyze evolving tax forms and instructions and update calculations to meet current compliance requirements. This position demands a high degree of analytical rigor and meticulous attention to detail. The Tax Analyst will collaborate cross-functionally with product development, design, and customer support teams to deliver compliant, high-quality solutions that meet the expectations of our clients and stakeholders.

About the Role:
 

• Analyze tax forms, instructions, and related legislation to ensure software products remain current and compliant.
• Implement updates to existing tax software products using internal tools; this role requires proficiency in formula-based logic.
• Maintain ownership of a defined set of tax jurisdictions and proactively identify and synthesize regulatory changes across forms and instructions.
• Execute structured software testing to validate accuracy and compliance.
• Manage deliverables reliably, providing timely status updates, escalating risks proactively, and contributing to broader content initiatives.

Collaboration and Communication

• Partner with internal teams to monitor and stay current on changes across assigned jurisdictions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to define workflows, business rules, and acceptance criteria; support Agile delivery and change management within a defined feature area.
• Provide research support and timely responses to internal stakeholders and Customer Support teams regarding client inquiries.

Essential Skills

• Demonstrate proficiency in tax compliance, analytical reasoning, and structured problem-solving.
• Identify and contribute to process improvements that enhance quality, efficiency, and scalability.
• Apply advanced data analysis techniques to tax content; model complex calculations and usage cases.
• Responsibly leverage AI and research automation tools to improve accuracy and efficiency; validate outputs rigorously, maintain thorough documentation of sources and methodology, and uphold applicable compliance standards.
• Stay current on emerging tools and technologies; evaluate and recommend workflow enhancements and quality control improvements; share best practices across the team.
• Adapt independently and efficiently to new tools, workflows, and project types, including AI-enabled features, while maintaining accuracy and consistency under shifting priorities.

About You

Candidates who meet the following qualifications are encouraged to apply: 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 1–2 years of hands-on experience in tax preparation, tax compliance, or the development of tax-related content (e.g. income tax, U.S. international tax, sales and use tax).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Proficiency in formula-based logic and structured reasoning (e.g., Excel formulas, conditional logic).
• Solid computer proficiency, including Windows operating systems, file management, and standard productivity tools.
• Analytical mindset with a high degree of attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and cross-functional collaboration in a software or technology environment.

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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.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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