Senior Manager - New Product Taxing

Verizon Communications - Basking Ridge, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Basking Ridge, NJ

Telecommunications

About the position

The Senior Manager - Product Taxing at Verizon plays a crucial role in the Tax department, ensuring accurate billing of transactional and regulatory taxes to customers. This position involves supporting new product and service launches, determining tax classifications, and managing projects from a tax perspective. The role requires collaboration with various teams to assess tax impacts and maintain data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate & analyze the product & services to determine tax classifications.
• Evaluate & analyze promotions & discounts to determine tax classifications.
• Attend & participate in numerous project calls to review new projects & assess tax impact.
• Attend & participate in the numerous project team meetings to provide tax classification requirements.
• Research, analyze, and resolve production issues.
• Maintain ongoing data integrity and accuracy relating to reference and documentation databases.
• Field questions/inquiries from business partners and customer care on tax rules.
• Build support tools to improve processes & gain efficiencies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Information Systems or six or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in Microsoft Word/Excel and/or Google Docs/Sheets.
• Ability to interface with Tax and Regulatory Legal, Tax Technology, Product Management and Marketing teams, and other business groups.
• Strong research and technical skills including knowledge of billing system requirements and development life cycles.
• Strong written and oral communication skills to partner effectively across the Tax/Regulatory organization, as well as presentation skills and the ability to present to senior management.

Nice-to-haves

• CPA or JD preferred.
• Experience with Taxation systems preferred.
• Strong leadership skills and a proven history of experience in successfully managing multiple teams and multiple projects are required including the ability to drive positive change.
• Working understanding of digital finance tools to drive automation and process efficiencies.
• Strong command of SOX 404 and internal controls.
• Advanced knowledge and experience using Alteryx, SQL, and relational databases.

Benefits

• Remote work flexibility
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Collaborative work environment
• Opportunities for professional growth and development