Associate - Compliance

KPMG clients know our insights and guidance will help them to better understand market dynamics and address the many challenges they face. Improving business performance, turning risk and compliance efforts into opportunities, and creating, enhancing and preserving value are at the core of what we do.

We are currently seeking an Associate to join our State and Local Tax (SALT) practice in our Lisle office.

* Review sales, use and telecommunications tax data received on a monthly basis from KPMG compliance clients to determine if it is in the proper format for input into KPMG’s mechanized tax processing systems * Arrange the monthly data received into the proper tax location codes, tax types, tax categories, authority levels, taxpayer entities, and tax amounts * Apply client specific business rules to the tax data received from tax compliance clients to modify the data for input into KPMG mechanized tax processing systems * Once the data is ready for input, process the data for the returns using one or more of KPMG’s mechanized tax systems * Identify, document, and recommend client technological business requirements for sales, use, and telecommunications tax compliance processes, and system improvements * Ability to design, test, and troubleshoot indirect tax technology solutions developed using Microsoft Access, Excel, or SQL Server

* Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Management Information Systems, or a related course of study from an accredited college/university * Development knowledge using Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Access required, and experience developing in .NET is preferred * Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Access, SQL Server, XML, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, or process mapping software **Basic tax or accounting knowledge** * Experience in reviewing and working with transaction tax data received from the billing systems of wire line/wireless telecommunications companies or cable/broadband companies, and a working knowledge of federal, state, and local telecommunications transaction taxes imposed in the United States