Sales Tax Representative

Sales Tax Representative (Open)

Location: Long Beach, CA - Management - Regional Office

How will you contribute and grow?

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the unique perspectives of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders, and cultures across the world. We believe that a variety of backgrounds makes our team stronger and more innovative. The West tax representative reports to the West Region Sales Tax Manager and is responsible for assisting in daily activities related to assuring customers are taxed properly, exemptions are properly and promptly documented, customer tax disputes are resolved and sales tax is properly applied. This will require a professional who possesses good analytical and organizational skills and can work well as part of a team.

At Airgas, we respect, honor and value diversity.

Airgas is hiring for a Sales Tax Representative in Long Beach, CA

We are looking for you!

Pay: $27-$28 an hr Comprehensive Family Benefits: Airgas offers a full benefits package designed to support your whole life, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance. Support for Parents: We offer up to 14-week paid child birth benefits to support growing families. Future Security: 401(k) Retirement Plan with company match, Tuition Assistance, Paid Holidays, Vacation, and Sick time. Early Access: Your benefits start after just 30 days of employment

Job responsibilities:

• Assist West Sales Tax Team to determine proper taxability of customers, and transactions; escalate any unresolved issues to the Sales Tax Manager
• Review and maintain exemption certificates in exemption certificate maintenance software.
• Review and analyze open or pending sales tax dispute cases daily based on client claims, inquiries or tax software reporting indicators.
• Interface with customers to determine validity of tax exemption certificates.
• Request valid exempt certificates or other supporting documents from the customer via High Radius letters, email or postal mail.
• Review weekly New Accounts report for missing exemption certificates. Request letters are mailed out timely and maintained for tracking purposes.
• Provide vendors with properly executed exemption certificates where applicable.
• Provide support during sales and use tax audit.
• Review and analyze automated daily tax dispute report and support Tax Team in managing customer sales tax disputes
• Research sales tax rules and regulations of different states in order to assist the Sales Tax Manager in determining taxability of materials per customer exemption certificate and nature of business.
• Analyze and reconcile customer accounts relating to Sales tax differences in order to resolve disputes promptly and accurately.
• Other related duties.

Are you a match?

Job requirements:

To perform this position successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Prior sales and use tax experience in a corporate environment.

Required length & type of experience:

• Minimum of one to three years of sales tax and customer relations experience in positions of increasing responsibility.
• Willingness to learn sales and use tax laws and regulations with prior financial type roles.
• The successful candidate must demonstrate the skills to work independently and to participate in continuous improvement of process.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with SAP and Vertex a plus.
• Associates / Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or related field is preferred