Supervisor - SALT Transaction Tax & Automation

RSM is actively searching for a seasoned and self-driven Sales and Use Tax Automation Supervisor to enhance our thriving State and Local Sales and Use Transaction Tax Automation (TTA) practice. At RSM, we foster a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, offering career-focused individuals the chance to play a crucial role in our expanding TTA practice. As the preferred service provider for middle market companies across seventy-six major metropolitan cities, we take pride in our depth of expertise, ensuring exceptional service not only for middle market enterprises but also for Fortune 1,000 clients. Join our dynamic team and contribute to the continued success of our premier TTA practice.

As a Transaction Tax Automation (TTA) Supervisor within RSM’s State and Local Indirect Tax practice, your responsibilities will include:

• Cultivating and overseeing internal and client relationships, spearheading initiatives to drive new business for sales and use tax automation projects, including the implementation of innovative technology platforms such as Avalara, Thomson Reuters OneSource for Indirect Tax, and Vertex.
• Efficiently managing and organizing daily project tasks and work plans specific to each client, ensuring project execution.
• Collaborating with the client team and RSM staff, taking charge of project management responsibilities to ensure successful outcomes.
• Defining and developing project deliverables aligned with clients' implementation requirements, ensuring a comprehensive and tailored approach.
• Coordinating staff and resources, overseeing tasks essential to the implementation of sales and use tax systems, including the creation of systemic and procedural process maps, functional and system design documentation, system configuration, development and design of user acceptance testing, and the creation of training materials.
• Leading the creation and supervision of project budgets, ensuring the achievement of client’s financial objectives.
• Cultivating and nurturing client and vendor relationships, playing a pivotal role in supporting the strategic development and delivery of client service and project tasks within the defined scope.
• Identifying and facilitating the strategic sale of add-on services, contributing to the growth and success of other RSM lines of business.

Basic Qualifications:

• Requires a minimum of Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or Computer Science
• Minimum of four years of experience working in a large ERP.
• Strong Communication skills, verbal and written.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Ability to obtain CPA, EA or other accredited designation which demonstrates above average knowledge of sales and use tax application (i.e., CMI, APS)
• Minimum of four years of experience with a focus on working with and/or implementing technology systems.
• Strong technical knowledge of tax automation solutions (i.e., Thomson Reuters Indirect Tax Determination, Vertex Inc’s suite of products, Avalara’s solutions) and how each system works in conjunction with middle market Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) systems (i.e., Microsoft Dynamic Systems, NetSuite)