US Tax Accountant

US Tax Accountant

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! You will participate in the design, development, and testing of our GoSystem Tax using in-house development tools.  In this role, you will collect, analyze, and prioritize requirements from various entities to include external taxing authorities and our internal sources to define and make required changes to the GoSystem software.  It will require working closely with internal teams. The position requires a forward-thinking attitude to implement tax law changes in advance of a typical tax filing season. Depending on the nature of the project, undertakes a combination of technical implementation and testing analyst tasks to understand customer and/or product needs in the context of internal & external requirements and/or software development information.  As a Tax Analyst, you will be working on low to medium level federal or state projects.

About the Role
In this opportunity as a US Tax Accountant, you will:

• Communicate with other internal teams to stay abreast of tax law changes per jurisdiction
• Constant monitoring of IRS and state taxing agency tax law changes by review of Checkpoint and other sources to stay current on impending tax law changes
• Analyze tax forms and related laws to ensure our software is kept current
• Design the client interface, such as input/output screens, in our tax product
• Implement changes to our existing tax software products – For GoSystem, this would require basic programming skills with internal tools.
• Write and/or communicate design and system flow specifications for software engineers
• Test software products
• Write help documentation and work with technical writers to implement into the software
• Provide phone support to our customers on an as needed basis

About You
You're a fit for the role if your background includes:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent experience
• 1-2 years of recent US tax preparation experience or experience providing technical support to end users of tax software (familiarity with tax software GoSystem Tax, ONESOURCE Income Tax, or competitor software)
• Strong English communication skills
• Advanced computer skills.
• Desired Experience: Experience with electronic filing of tax returns a plus. US State, city, and/or local income tax preparation a plus.

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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