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Organization: Enterprise Finance
Location: Chicago
Level: Senior Manager
Our Enterprise workforce is the engine that powers Accenture, enabling us to provide the capabilities and expertise that clients demand to help them become high-performance businesses. As our internal workforce, they continually build shareholder value by: efficiently managing and supporting all activities across our business, protecting the assets and reputation of Accenture, ensuring that we have the people and technology needed to execute our business strategy, developing and increasing awareness of our brand, and providing a range of skills to support our client teams, outsourcing units and other businesses.
The people in our Enterprise workforce play a leading role in our strategic and operational programs, acting as the agents of change within Accenture itself. They work in a wide range of functional areas including: human resources, marketing and communications, finance, legal, IT, facilities and services, research, business operations and sales development, and must continually evolve to meet the ever-changing demands of the marketplace to achieve higher performance both for ourselves and our clients.
In todays marketplace, sound financial management is the foundation for a successful business. At Accenture, we would not be able to increase our growth and success as a large public company without financial integrity. In all our Finance workgroups we look for individuals with strong financial management, analytic and strategic skills, but its not just about accounting and accounting principles. Our people are first-class program and project managers, who understand teamwork and communicate well with people at all levels.
Role Description:
The US Compliance Lead Senior Manager will be responsible for managing all US federal, state, and local income tax compliance, including full cycle from provision through true-up; as well as special projects as needed to identify and mitigate tax exposures and capitalize on opportunities.
Ongoing responsibilities include:
Ensure the efficient, accurate, and timely completion of all federal and state income tax returns.
Manage the day-to-day relationship with our compliance outsource provider.
Manage all Schedule M-1 calculations and use prior federal tax compliance experience to do value-added reviews of processes to determine taxable income.
Forecast future year taxable income for purposes of GAAP reporting, estimated tax payments, and tax cash flow forecasting.
Develop internal relationships with other financial or operational groups to improve our ability to obtain data needed to accurately forecast taxable income.
Direct the year-end and quarterly GAAP income tax reporting process for the US.
Ensure the accurate GAAP reporting of all US income tax accounts, through processes such as monthly taxes payable account reconciliations.
Perform research of federal income tax issues.
Work with the US tax planning team to ensure planning ideas are accurately reported in the federal income tax returns.
Analyze financial models to determine the impact of tax planning ideas on income taxes payable.
Ensure all federal tax return files are fully documented and audit ready.
Assist in responding to federal and state tax auditor requests.
Supervise the US compliance group staff, including career development and other personnel issues.
Manage the responses to all notices and correspondence from US income tax agencies.
Ensure efficient tax cash flow management; maintain relationship with the Service Center and Treasury to manage cash payment/check request process.
Prepare and plan for audits, including reviewing compliance workpapers.
Develop and implement process and procedures in anticipation of audits.
Advise on current IRS Initiatives.
Monitor compliance with record retention requirements.
Set up and maintain US reserves, including advising on audit issues and tracking likely outcome and settlement potential.
Monitor Statute of Limitations issues, including maintenance of comprehensive forecast of statute closings.
Interact with governmental taxing authorities.
Monitor and maintain policies related to privilege in the planning and compliance process.
Special projects, as applicable.
Basic Qualifications
10+ years of US Federal tax compliance experience in one or a combination of "Big 4" firms, multinational company or professional services firm environment.
Experience in the management of all income tax compliance requirements.
Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance
Preferred Skills Requirements
Self-starter with the ability and confidence to work well in an unstructured, dynamic environment
Team player; collaborative with peers and has led/mentored a team
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong organizational and leadership skills
Ability to master complex functions and simultaneously execute multiple projects
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).
Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.>
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