Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. New Relic is a dynamic, rapidly growing SaaS company revolutionizing the Observability market. They are seeking a highly motivated Senior Tax Accountant to join their Finance and Accounting team, where the individual will play a pivotal role in designing and building the tax function while balancing technical execution and project management.
Responsibilities
- Co-Build the Function: Partner with finance leadership to establish, automate, and scale our internal tax processes and strategies as the company expands globally
- Project Management: Act as the primary project manager for external tax advisors, ensuring deliverables (like federal, state, and international tax returns) are accurate and on schedule
- Tax Close & Provisions: Own the quarter-end and annual tax provision process (ASC 740), prepare tax journal entries, and perform flux analyses with a keen eye for detail
- Audit & Notice Ownership: Project-manage responses to tax audits and notices, proactively gathering documentation and resolving inquiries efficiently
- Curiosity-Driven Special Projects: Lead research and execution on special projects, including R&D tax credits, international expansion, transfer pricing, and state nexus evaluation
- Process Automation: Constantly question the status quo. Identify manual bottlenecks in our current tax processes and implement modern, scalable software or workflow solutions
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- CPA license is required
- Minimum of 3–5 years of progressive tax experience
- A Builder's Mindset: Comfortable with ambiguity and excited by the challenge of creating order out of chaos
- Strong Project Management Skills: Proven ability to manage external vendors, track multiple competing deadlines, and drive cross-functional projects to completion
- Solid foundational understanding of ASC 740 (Accounting for Income Taxes)
- Innate curiosity, strong analytical problem-solving skills, and the ability to translate complex tax concepts into plain English for non-finance stakeholders
- Master's degree in Taxation is a plus
- Public accounting/Big 4 experience highly preferred; a mix of public and fast-paced corporate experience is ideal
- Experience in the SaaS industry or with international tax issues is a major plus
Benefits
- Corporate bonus plan
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Vision
- Parental leave and planning
- Mental health benefits
- 401(k) plan and match
- Flex time-off
- 11 paid holidays
- Volunteer time-off
- Other competitive benefits designed to improve the lives of our employees
- Flexible workforce model allowing fully office-based, fully remote, or hybrid work
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