Tax Analyst

Summary:

We are seeking an experienced tax professional to join our Partnership Tax development team as a Tax Analyst. In this role, you will leverage your tax knowledge and experience to significantly impact our customers’ success. Your primary responsibilities will include designing, developing, and testing our UltraTax CS 1065 product line using proprietary development tools. You will gather, analyze, and prioritize requirements from various sources, including external tax authorities and internal stakeholders, to ensure we deliver the most dependable tax software in the industry.

Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Thomson Reuters offers a unique and rewarding career path for seasoned tax professionals.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Tax Analyst, you will:

Analyze tax forms, instructions, related laws, and other agency guidance to ensure the accuracy and compliance of our tax preparation software

Collaborate with the technology team and write design specifications to implement changes and enhancements

Design the client interface, including input screens and worksheets

Collaborate and coordinate with teams to obtain forms approval and electronic filing approval of tax products

Test software products to ensure quality and reliability

Write help documentation to assist customers in navigating the software

Provide assistance to the support team to resolve client inquiries and issues

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Tax Analyst if your background includes:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field

Two or more years of recent income tax experience, including preparation of passthrough entity tax returns (partnerships and/or S Corporations)

Extensive knowledge of tax requirements

Strong communication and computer skills

Additional desired experience: Professional certification, e.g., Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Enrolled Agent (EA); State, city, and local income tax preparation; Electronic filing of tax returns; Experience with UltraTax CS software

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

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

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

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 that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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