Tax Accounting Intern

We are seeking a Tax Intern to support our Tax Department.

Exemption & Resale Certificate Management

• Audit the existing customer certificate library flag missing expired or incomplete certificates (like the one we just reviewed: missing expiration year unverified ag/timber number etc.)
• Draft request letters/emails to customers for missing or expiring certificates
• Flag any certificate that looks questionable for your review before acceptance
• Upload valid tax exempt certificate to Avalara
• Respond to inbox for tax exempt certificate customers

Use Tax Accrual Support

• Pull AP invoice data for the month; identify purchases where vendor did not charge sales tax
• Determine whether each purchase is taxable in the ship-to state (using a taxability matrix you provide dont have them invent the rules)
• Calculate accrual amounts and prepare a tax workpaper by state for your review
• Maintain a recurring-vendor cheat sheet so common purchases get classified consistently

Tax Account Reconciliations

• Reconcile sales tax payable GL accounts by state monthly
• Tie GL balances to filed returns; investigate and document variances
• Reconcile use tax accrual accounts
• Prepare clean handoff schedules for month-end close
• Documented procedures for each recurring task

Audit Support

• Pull exempt certificates for audit
• Pull invoices and analyze for audits
• Create sales reconciliation for audit

• Pursuing a Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance Taxation or related field
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience working with Microsoft Excel including sorting filtering and lookups
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills for customer correspondence and internal follow-up
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive financial information professionally
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite especially Excel and Outlook preferred