Senior Manager – New Product Taxing

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What you’ll be doing...

This position supports the Tax department to ensure accurate billing of taxes (transactional & regulatory taxes) to Verizon’s customers. The individual in this position will support new product/service launches and new promotions/discounts across the entire company. This includes determining the tax classification of a new product or promotion, ensuring all relevant documentation is provided to Tax, and managing the project from start to finish from a Tax perspective. 

Responsibilities:

In addition to gaining exposure to a world-class Tax department, this role is responsible for the following:

• Evaluate & analyze the product & services to determine tax classifications.

• Evaluate & analyze promotions & discounts to determine tax classifications.

• Attend & participate in numerous project calls to review new projects & assess tax impact.

• Attend & participate in the numerous project team meetings to provide tax classification requirements.

• Research, analyze, and resolve production issues.

• Maintain ongoing data integrity and accuracy relating to reference and documentation databases. 

• Field questions/inquiries from business partners and customer care on tax rules.

• Build support tools to improve processes & gain efficiencies.  

• Other duties as assigned.  

What we're looking for...

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Information Systems or four or more years of work experience.

• Five or more years of relevant work experience.

• Advanced knowledge and experience in Microsoft Word/Excel and/or Google Docs/Sheets.

• Ability to interface with Tax and Regulatory Legal, Tax Technology, Product Management and Marketing teams, and other business groups.

• Strong research and technical skills including knowledge of billing system requirements and development life cycles.

• Strong written and oral communication skills to partner effectively across the Tax/Regulatory organization, as well as presentation skills and the ability to present to senior management.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• CPA or JD preferred.

• Experience with Taxation systems preferred.

• Strong leadership skills and a proven history of experience in successfully managing multiple teams and multiple projects are required including the ability to drive positive change.

• Working understanding of digital finance tools to drive automation and process efficiencies.

• Strong command of SOX 404 and internal controls.

• Advanced knowledge and experience using Alteryx, SQL, and relational databases.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

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