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Tax Advisor

Vaco
$100000 - $120000 / Year
United States, Tennessee, Memphis
Nov 03, 2026
Tax Advisor Position Overview The Tax Advisor supports a variety of tax compliance, research, accounting, and advisory activities across the organization. This role partners with business and finance teams to help ensure accurate tax reporting, maintain compliance, identify potential tax risks and opportunities, and provide practical guidance on business transactions and operational matters. The ideal candidate brings a strong foundation in tax with the ability to research unfamiliar issues, analyze financial and operational data, and work across multiple areas of taxation. Experience with state and local taxes, including sales and use tax, property tax, fuel and mileage taxes, or other operational taxes, is a plus. Key Responsibilities Coordinate and review recurring tax filings across applicable jurisdictions, ensuring returns and supporting documentation are accurate and completed on time. Reconcile tax return data, assessments, payments, and related general ledger accounts, investigating and resolving discrepancies as needed. Support tax accruals, accounting entries, account reconciliations, and other tax-related financial reporting activities. Research federal, state, and local tax laws, regulations, administrative guidance, and tax authority publications to evaluate the tax treatment of business transactions. Provide practical tax guidance to accounting, finance, procurement, accounts payable, legal, technology, operations, real estate, fleet, and other business partners. Review financial and operational data to identify potential tax exposures, exemptions, refund opportunities, process improvements, and compliance considerations. Assist with tax audits, notices, assessments, and information requests by gathering supporting documentation, researching technical issues, analyzing exposure, and preparing responses. Analyze proposed assessments, penalties, interest, valuation issues, and other tax adjustments and provide recommendations for resolution. Support the administration and documentation of applicable tax exemptions and other tax-saving opportunities. Partner with outside tax providers and other third parties, reviewing their work and identifying opportunities to improve processes or bring activities in-house where appropriate. Identify recurring tax, data, coding, filing, payment, or reconciliation issues and recommend improvements to procedures, controls, workpapers, and reporting processes. Support tax technology, systems, and data initiatives, including system implementations, testing, data queries, reporting enhancements, and improvements to tax-related fields and processes. Assist with special projects related to transactions, entity or facility changes, asset movements, registrations, data clean-up, system changes, or other business activities with tax implications. Develop and maintain tax documentation, procedures, workpapers, training materials, and job aids. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to strengthen tax processes, controls, documentation, and overall compliance. Perform other tax-related responsibilities and special projects as assigned. Preferred Experience Candidates do not need experience in every area below. Exposure to one or more of the following would be beneficial: State and local taxation Sales and use tax Property tax Fuel and mileage tax Highway use or motor carrier taxes Tax compliance and return preparation/review Tax research and technical analysis Tax audits and controversy support Tax accounting and reconciliations Exemption analysis and administration Tax technology or ERP-related tax processes Multi-state tax compliance Working with third-party tax compliance providers Ideal Profile Strong general tax foundation with an interest in developing broader tax expertise Comfortable researching tax issues and translating technical guidance into practical business recommendations Strong analytical and reconciliation skills Able to work with large amounts of financial and operational data Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills and the ability to manage recurring deadlines Comfortable partnering across accounting, finance, operations, technology, legal, and other functions Able to identify process gaps and recommend practical improvements By submitting to this position, you are agreeing to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. EEO Notice Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law. Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com. Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal. Representation Notice By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. 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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring. Pay Transparency Notice Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to: the individual's skill sets, experience and training; licensure and certification requirements; office location and other geographic considerations; other business and organizational needs. With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.