BPM Overview:
What does BPM stand for? Innovation, opportunity, community, diversity, inclusivity, flexibility and so much more. BPM stands for “Because People Matter,” because at our core, our people drive everything we do and how we do it. We are a forward-thinking, full-service accounting firm providing modern solutions to businesses across the globe. We focus on comprehensive assurance, tax, and consulting services for our clients, and we provide our people and our community with the resources to lead meaningful and purposeful lives.
While we are one of the largest California-based accounting firms, our flexible work locations and schedules mean we have professionals across the continent. Our teams and our clients drive us to provide quality services and ignite unique insights and ideas that contribute to our continued success. Our clients come from different backgrounds and industries, which keep our people intellectually challenged every day.
BPM India Advisory Service Private Limited - Formerly known as “Burr Pilger Mayer India Private Limited”. (BPM India) is a subsidiary of BPM LLP. Founded in 1986, BPM is one of the largest California-based accounting and consulting firms, ranking in the top 50 in the country. With 18 different office locations, BPM serves emerging and mid-cap businesses as well as high-net-worth individuals in a broad range of industries, including financial services, technology, life science, manufacturing, food, wine and craft brewing, automotive, nonprofits, real estate and construction. The Firm’s International Tax Practice is one of the largest on the West Coast and its well-recognized SEC practice serves approximately 35 public reporting companies, mostly in the technology industry.
Job Responsibilities:
- Oversee preparation and filing of multi-jurisdictional sales and use tax, business & occupation and gross receipts tax filings using Vertex tax engine and Anybill for payment processing
- Review transactional data and tax calculations from ERP systems to ensure compliance and accurate tax application on sales and purchases in view of cross-border taxation rule
- Manage reconciliation of tax liability accounts and ensure proper documentation for audit trail and internal controls
- Support sales and use tax audits by facilitating advisory and controversy team with the document requests and responding to inquiries.
- Oversee and ensure timely obtaining and renewal of business licenses
- Manage correspondence and notices from jurisdictions assisting with timely response, follow-ups and resolution
- Historic review of global Indirect Tax and Revenue.
- Collaborate with IT and Finance teams to support system configuration and tax automation projects, especially relating to Vertex integrations and ERP system enhancements
- Identify and implement process improvements and automation opportunities to streamline compliance and reporting functions.
- Coordinate the building of automation and review tools using Alteryx / Tableau / SQL / Machine learning / Python etc.
- Automate and standardize our indirect tax data extraction and calculations with the Data science and Data Ops Project Managers.
- Track and report; revenue, indirect tax and invoicing issues; automation projects; and management visualization dashboards.
- Design & Report compliance Trackers to the Indirect Tax Technical regional teams and the regional Country Controllers.
- Develop team of tax return preparers by providing them with required training
- Communicate clearly and professionally with tax authorities, external advisors, and internal stakeholders.
Job Skill:
- Degree in finance, accounting, tax and/or other related field(s).
- Minimum 5+ years of experience
- Core Experience with Sales & Use Tax regulations in US
- Working knowledge of Vertex and Anybill platforms
- Robust knowledge of MS Excel and/or logic-based tools (e.g. advanced excel models, Tableau/Alteryx)
- Experience with complex revenue systems involving several levels of upstream data and a wide range of global products, discounts and adjustment types
- Ability to work through huge data volumes and extract the truth
- Good English written and verbal communication skills
- Self-driven, extremely critical, ‘can-do’ attitude and a positive outlook
- Comfortable working through solutions with a wide range of subject matter experts
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment with minimal supervision
