The posting
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Senior Cost Accountant
$80,000 - $90,000 / year
WHO YOU ARE:
A detail-oriented and highly organized accounting professional with a deep understanding of multi-state tax compliance and financial reporting. Known for your reliability and accuracy, you thrive in fast-paced environments where deadlines matter. You bring strong analytical skills and a sharp eye for identifying discrepancies across complex, multi-jurisdictional filings. Your excellent communication skills make you an effective collaborator across departments, and you approach every challenge with a problem-solving mindset. You are committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and confidentiality while helping the organization stay ahead of its compliance obligations.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
Revenue & Tax Compliance:
- Prepare monthly reconciliations ensuring revenue reported in sales and consumer use tax returns (e-filed via Avalara) aligns with the Company’s financial ledgers, and work cross-functionally to resolve process variances.
- Prepare and file monthly sales and consumer use tax returns for acquired entities until integration into the Company’s ERP is complete.
- Compile fiscal-year-to-date sales-by-state data (origin and destination) to support state apportionment calculations.
- Monitor annual sales by state to identify jurisdictions requiring new tax registrations (Nexus).
- Serve as primary user/administrator of Avalara’s Avatax software.
- Record and reconcile tax liabilities for sales/use tax and other non-income tax obligations (business tax, commercial activity tax, commerce tax, etc.).
Business Personal Property:
- Serve as primary point of contact with the Company’s third-party preparer for annual property tax renditions.
- Record and reconcile tax liabilities for business personal property and leased real properties (single, double, and triple net).
- Prepare 13-week property tax payment forecasts and submit to Treasury; initiate and document all property tax payments.
- Generate monthly fixed asset and depreciation reports required for state and federal income tax return preparation.
Customer Credits & Unclaimed Property:
- Track and analyze unapplied credit balances in trade receivable accounts.
- Collaborate with revenue cycle functions to minimize the Company’s tax exposure for unclaimed property and escheatment.
Audit & Regulatory Support:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for state and local tax authorities during desk reviews, inquiries, and audits.
- Compile revenue, asset, and ledger data requested by the Company’s third-party preparers for state, federal, and foreign income tax returns.
- Initiate all income tax-related payments (extensions, estimates, returns) and properly document and record them.
- Record and reconcile the Company’s tax liabilities for state, federal, and foreign income taxes.
Internal Controls & Compliance:
- Perform detailed reconciliations of compliance-related balance sheet accounts to ensure data integrity.
- Enforce processes and policies that mitigate financial risk and prevent fraud.
- Compile necessary documentation, schedules, and workpapers for external audits (local, state, federal, and financial).
Collaboration & Support:
- Partner with cross-functional departments to address unexpected variances or inquiries and implement corrective action.
- Comprehend multi-state taxation of revenue and assets to provide accurate guidance across the organization.
SKILLS YOU BRING:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required
- Minimum 3–5 years of progressive accounting/finance experience, ideally including exposure to taxation, regulatory compliance, or financial reporting
- Strong quantitative analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Strong proficiency with MS Office, particularly advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUPs, SUMIFS, pivot tables, text-to-columns, etc.)
- Understanding of GAAP application and compliance
- Experience working with PE companies a plus
- Large ERP software exposure, especially MS Dynamics AX, a plus
- Experience with SQL a plus
Why Trulite:
Trulite offers the most comprehensive benefit coverage in the industry. We give our employees immediate access to health, dental, vision and life insurance benefits, as well as provide short/long-term disability coverage to protect you financially if you should incur a non-occupational illness or accident.
We are pleased to offer a comprehensive wellness initiative that includes access to a progressive financial training program.
Stay with us for a year and your 401k employer match is 100% vested and immediately becomes part of your ever improving financial plan. This is also true for those who select and contribute to their Health Savings Account. We match on both employee and family coverage to help cover out-of-pocket expenses and if unused continues to grow until needed. The employer match for your HSA, if you choose to participate, is also vested immediately at 100%, improving your financial health.
Trulite bears most of the cost of your benefits. We structured these benefits because we care not only about your physical well-being but your financial health and welfare too. Let us show you why Trulite values you as an employee and how we will help you achieve financial independence.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.
