Tax Analyst

Description:

At General Motors, we have a vision of a world with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion and believe that our people are the driving force behind making this a reality. The Global Finance team is essential to achieving our vision through the ability to generate insights that maximize profitability, minimize risk, and pave the way toward greater innovation. At General Motors we value each person and seek to create a culture of inclusivity, integrity, boldness and innovation.

The General Motors Global Tax and Customs department is a team of approximately 200 people focused primarily on GM’s strategic and most complex tax and trade matters. We manage relationships with numerous external partners who perform many of our routine tax functions. We aspire to be a trusted advisor to both internal partners and external stakeholders to whom we provide actionable, innovative advice in a straightforward manner. To achieve these goals, we strive to empower team members through trust, flexibility, feedback, and career development.

What You’ll Do
 

• Assisting in the compilation of Indirect tax transactional data for return compliance to ensure timely and accurate filings and payments.
• Reviewing Indirect tax accounting, accruals, and account reconciliations
• Partnering with business units to support tax determinations on procurements.
• Performing real-time analytics on GM’s self-assessment of use tax on purchases
• Supporting on-going system redesigns and projects from a tax perspective
• Ensuring tax requirements are met on various GM new product initiatives.
• Compiling and analyzing support for Indirect sales and use tax audits
• Researching regulatory requirements on sales and purchase transactions
• Working on special cross-functional projects
  
   

Additional Job Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)
 

• Bachelor’s degree in taxation or accounting; other advanced degree or training
• 2+ years of relevant large public accounting firm or private industry experience, including Indirect tax (sales and use, property, excise tax) experience.
• Ability to work effectively with Tax, Finance, Legal and other departments in the U.S. and other countries.
  
   

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
 

• CPA and/or Master’s degree in taxation or accounting; other advanced degree or training
• Experience with a U.S. based multinational and Masters in Tax preferred.
• Demonstrated effective, analytical and problem-solving skills