Senior Tax Analyst

🔥 11 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $79.8k - $119.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💰 Tax

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Sun Life

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1865

💸 Finance

Finance • Insurance • Wealth Management

Sun Life is a global financial services company headquartered in Toronto, Canada, offering a diverse range of protection, wealth, and health solutions for individuals, businesses, and institutions. The company provides services in insurance, investments, financial advice, and asset management across various regions including North America, Asia, and Europe. Sun Life is committed to sustainability, diversity and inclusion, and creating a positive impact in communities. With a focus on achieving financial security and healthier lives for their clients, Sun Life integrates comprehensive financial solutions and innovative practices to meet the evolving needs of their clientele.

📋 Description

• Prepare and review complex federal and state income tax returns and provisions, including oversight of fixed assets and tax depreciation processes, with a focus on improving accuracy, standardization, and efficiency across entities • Drive tax process and technology transformation initiatives, including identifying automation opportunities, improving data flows, redesigning workflows, and enhancing reporting and operational efficiency across the tax function • Lead or contribute to tax technology initiatives, including implementation, enhancement, or optimization of tax and finance systems • Research US tax theory, apply rules to specific domestic and cross-border transactions, and summarize conclusions in non-technical terms • Ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley internal control requirements • Interact with personnel from all areas of the Company, both in the US and Internationally, in order to obtain and understand complex financial data • Assist in responding to inquiries from federal and state tax auditors • Provide support and a point of contact for external auditors • Provide support and effectively manage the internal audit process • Assist with forecasting and projections both for scenario testing/quarterly deliverables • Assist in international reporting (5471, 5472, etc.) and partnership returns • Review tax the accounts reconciliations • Processing intercompany tax payments and other intercompany reporting • Prepare tax provisions in Longview software, including consolidation of US data • Prepare quarterly and annual Federal and SALT income tax provisions for life entities for IFRS and NAIC financial statements • Prepare separate tax provisions and notes for U.S. GAAP and statutory financial statements and assist with related financial statement audits • Assist with external audit • Assist managing financial reporting interaction with Corporate Tax, U.S. Finance and other business units

🎯 Requirements

• 3–7 years of experience in corporate tax, tax technology, or tax transformation, including exposure to tax provision (ASC 740) and/or U.S. income tax compliance • Experience with tax systems, automation, or process improvement initiatives is strongly preferred • Ability to work with a diverse group of people • Bachelor's degree in accounting or the equivalent is required • Advanced degrees in taxation and/or a CPA is a plus • Deep understanding of federal and state compliance • Experience with tax technology tools (e.g. Checkpoint, OneSource, Longview, etc.) and financial applications (e.g., PAM, Oracle, SAP, Tableau, AI-Copilot etc.), including participation in system implementations, enhancements, or process optimization initiatives; ability to partner with IT or vendors to improve solutions is a plus • Ability to work with large, complex data sets and translate financial and tax data into actionable insights • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are critical • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to partner across teams to drive change and support adoption of new technologies, processes, and ways of working in an evolving tax function • The ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a detail-oriented mindset is necessary to be successful • Proficiency in Microsoft applications (e.g. Excel and Word) is essential.

🏖️ Benefits

• generous vacation and sick time • market-leading paid family, parental and adoption leave • medical coverage • company paid life and AD&D insurance • disability programs • partially paid sabbatical program • 401(k) employer match • stock purchase options • employer-funded retirement account • flexible, inclusive and collaborative work environment that supports career growth