Expatriate Tax Accountant

Overview

Title: Expatriate Tax Accountant

Location: MD - Remote

Duration: 12 Months

Pay Rate: $32 - 33.50/hr. on w2.

The expatriate tax accountant will manage inquiries and metrics from the global mobility team, employees on international assignments (expatriates) and business units.

The accountant will also be responsible for the administration associated with an expatriate tax operation, including developing and maintaining metrics, lists and databases for tax services and frequent business travelers.

The tax accountant provides guidance, coaching, and education to expatriates, stakeholders, and business unit managers about the Corporate’s expatriate tax program, explaining tax equalization policies and procedures, resolving cases, and working with the Corporate’s tax assistance firm to complete tax equalization settlements.

The accountant will research discrepancies in compensation, deciding resolution, problem-solving abilities, a high level of attention to detail and good written and oral communication skills are required.

The ability to accurately calculate, record, manage payments/ amounts owed, reconciliation and post to individual employee files.

Intermediate to experience with PowerPoint, Excel to include VLOOKUP to provide and maintain monthly metrics is required.

Provide updates to financial reports, process vendor invoices and statuses via email communication.

Great customer service and interpersonal skills are critical and constantly in use when working with our expatriate population to provide education and understanding of U.S. and foreign taxes.

Comprehensive knowledge of accounting, taxation principles and guidelines are a plus.

The ability to handle fast-paced environment and multi-task with large volume of data and complete repetitive tasks to closure.

We have a team approach to provide high-quality service for expatriate tax compliance, planning, and general business operations.

A bachelor’s degree in accounting, Business, Global Management or equivalent experience.

High proficiency and advanced skills in Excel and pivot tables to analyze large amounts of data.

Experience with individual income tax returns.

Experience in performing, compiling, and analyzing compensation data and tasks accurately.

Experience with payroll and accounts receivable.

Ability to work as a great team player in a fast-paced team environment and multi-task numerous projects.

Must have excellent customer service skills, written and oral communication skills.

Strong attention to detail-oriented, logical, and methodological and proactive approach to problem-solving.

The keen ability to follow through with assignments/tasks to closure is critical.

Must also have excellent experience in MS Excel, data analytics, metrics, pivot and V-Lookup tables, and critical follow through to closure.

Audit experience is a plus.